Tomas Phillips and Kenneth Kirschner's collaboration works. Their sound is composed of playing acoustic instruments and computer processing etc…. This drone album is so sweet and it’s a sad sound irresistibly.

Without it necessarily being openly discussed, the arrangement of Five Transpositions had the aim of occupying a midpoint between ambient music and relatively dynamic through-composition. Though certain moments tip closer to one side or the other, we hope this collection provides the listener with an experience that is at once engaged and adrift in contemplation. The final track ("Budenmayer") seems to land on this midpoint with a particular sense of purpose, moving as it does between the bookends of distant voices via extended tones and subtle punctuations of low end. It was the first piece we composed and, happily, not the last.   —Tomas Phillips / Kenneth Kirschner


ファイブ トランスポジションズ
トーマス・フィリップス／ケネス・カーシュナー

2009年に〈ATAK〉からi8uとのコラボ作品をリリースして以来、日本のレーベルからのリリースは2作目となるTomas Phillipsと〈12k〉オーナーのTayler Deupreeとのコラボ作品などで知られるKenneth Kirschnerが共作での新譜を発表。トーマス・ケネス両者の作風がうまく組合わさった結果、楽器（主にピアノ）の演奏と緻密なコンピュータープロセッシングとで構成された、静謐さとダイナミックさを併せ持つ豊かな響きのドローン作品に仕上がっています。マスタリングはレーベルオーナーのDOVUASKI。デジパック仕様12cmCD。


Track list

01. II(2)
02. III
03. Low bells
04. 4
05. Budenmayer


Credits

SADCD-002 / DQC-1133
AUDIO CD - 5 Tracks - 66’10”
2013

Production: Tomas Phillips & Kenneth Kirschner
Mastering: DOVUASKI at FUEL editing and mastering, Tokyo
Photography: Dominique T Skoltz

First release on 4 September 2013
Distributed by SPACE SHOWER NETWORK INC

 

This collaborative CD heads full on into abstraction. Opener ‘II(2)’ (why can’t they title them properly?) is a series of eerie drones. The kind you’d find late at night on an industrial estate down the grimy back end of Birstall. III is some piano pluckings ‘neath a whistly squeak. ‘Low Bells’  is tumbling cavernous explosions of sound with the noise of someone or something tinkering. And on it goes. I listened to this earlier whilst acting like a prick on social media and it was like having a library CD of varying found sounds burbling away in the far corner of the room. You sort of get used to it being there yet no ear pleasure was gained at any point. Track 4 (entitled ‘4’) is the most musical piece, a series of wooden chimes rattling in the wind on an eerie sickly hot summers afternoon. The comes the most beautiful thing on the album, the lovely closer ‘Budenmayer’ with its wave after wave of soft synths taking it off into blissful underwater ‘Selected Ambient Works’  beautified air or early BVDub’s rotating bliss dub. Its been a rocky ride, this one but it broke me eventually, the closing track is a beaut.

Norman Records