Aloof Proof
Piano Text

A Norman Records recommendation (10th January 2008)

This record left our Brian feeling ecstatic.

Juicy release all the way from Infraction records in the tiny village of USA. If yr not familiar with this cool label, they're fast becoming synonymous with classic contemporary & archive ambient releases & the latest to suckle my beats is Aloof Proof's 1994 opus 'Piano Text'. Now this is gorgeous minimal gear that recalls Brian Eno & the more glacial side of Seefeel. Piano tones spun out into fragile webs of drifting, absorbing sound that envelopes your heart. This is the sort of blissed-out beauty i could stay up all night listening to & still feel a pang of regret as the last wisp of star gazing audio joy flutters by your eager lobes. You can feel this in all kinds of sensual ways. Not content to be mere muzak, these two extended compositions move you in many directions, swelling, ebbing, flowing & relaxing. A revived classic that is sure to be a staple diet for many whom ambient music is a healing brew. Fabulous!

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What their label says...

"There is no ambient record greater than Aloof Proof's Piano Text. I'm not the type of person given to grand, insupportable claims; this is simply a statement of fact. The album has equals, but no betters, and it is a tragedy that so few listeners have had the chance to hear this album in its entirety, let alone own a copy for themselves. It is the kind of album that becomes essential after just the first listen.
 
Since it was quietly released in 1994—a time, remember, dominated by the ambient-techno boom of such artists as the Orb and Future Sound of London—it has achieved a kind of cult status amoong fans of the genre. This is largely due to the edited versions of the album's two tracks that appeared on Asphodel's sprawling drone compilations, opening the world of Aloof Proof to thousands of eager
listeners in the mid-nineties.  The overall sound of "The Ghost Ship" and "The Last Leaf" is simple to describe—the tones of a piano are stretched to the horizon line; long, lingering sounds, the fluttering threads of them in the wind, drifting like subtle perfumes, a dream language culled from a very familiar instrument.   In its way, it is also a kind of Mandelbrot image—the briefest segments of the tracks can be listened to (like EEno's Neroli or Thursday Afternoon) to get an accurate idea of the whole. However, the magic of Piano Text is that, when taken as a duo of suites, the larger forms of the piece are revealed to be a classical composition of the utmost drama, suspense, nuance. It is, indeed, the music of the inexplicable dreamworlds we all travel to during sleep.  This is an album that must be listened to—no words can adequately describe how spellbindinng the music is, how staggeringly elegant it is." B. Bieniowski
 
 
* Remastered by Michael Fibe (Aloof Proof) in 2006. This will be a 6 panel full color digipak release in an edition of 900.
* Out of print for over 10 years, the original edition is quite a rare artifact.
* If you like ambient, Piano Text is absolutely essential.  
* Aloof Proof live in Spain.  They only come out at night.

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