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::LIVE IN DECEMBER:: Aidan
Baker will be returning to London for another
live Trome event on Tuesday 2nd December. This will be his only solo
London show during the current Nadja European tour. November 2008 A new review of Small Town Boredom LP 'Autumn Might Have Hope' has been published on the Italian webzine storiadellamusica.it October 2008 Thanks to everyone who attended the JAMES BLACKSHAW + DUANE PITRE with Ensemble + RAMESES III concert at St Giles in-the-Fields church on Saturday, October 25th 2008. Pictures of the event will be posted on the multimedia section in the near future. |
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Two more new reviews for Organized Pitches Occurring in Time and Autumn Might Have Hope from the September edition of Terrascope Online: Further explorations into the catacombs of planet drone continue with Duane Pitre & The Pilotram Ensemble, whose vinyl album opens the account of the Trome label (the name being short for The Remains Of My Estate) based in London. The ‘Organized Pitches Occurring in Time’ set contains two pieces, both based on an ensemble called ‘Ensemble Drones’. This score is then used as an eventual test-bed for the nine instrumentalists’ skills in improvisation and tonal shading. ‘Ensemble Chord in Eb w/ a Minor 7th & a Pump Organ Base’ is an exercise in gently unfolding elegance where shards of sunlight are imagined streaming through huge, highly decorated stained glass windows. The equally snappily titled ‘Ensemble Chord in C w/ a Major 7th & a Guitar Base’ takes on more sombre and reserved tones; the light of the previous track is now lost in a particularly dense fog bank in which Craig Colorusso’s bass clarinet seemingly acts as a rather sonorous warning to those in unfamiliar surroundings. Also from the same source is the debut album, vinyl again, from a Scottish outfit called Small Town Boredom which is centred around Fraser McGowan and Colin Morrison who, for the purpose of gigs and recording, are bolstered by a quintet of hired hands from other local groups in the Paisley area. The carefully measured spoonfuls of (mostly) acoustic guitar, breathy vocalese, sparse keys and minimal percussion make the ‘Autumn Might Have Hope’ collection a brittle-as-a-leaf-skeleton series of melancholic vignettes where even the merest hint of extra instrumentation would surely tip the delicate balance that the duo have perfected. Small Town Boredom have certain similarities to some Postcard bands from the near past, but in this case the standard, received allegiances that Edwin and Roddy pledged (Love, third album Velvets etc) are somehow overturned in favour of Terrascope favourites Hood (in earlier times), The Clientele and even a favourite obscurity of mine, Crabstick. Another point of view regarding the rather fine Duane Pitre and S.T.B. discs can be found etched by Simon Lewis in August’s ‘Rumbles’ – what other internet ‘zine gives “twofers” and “bogofs”? Rumbles written by Steve Pescott - Terrascope Online CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FOR SALE: |
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Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble - 'Organized Pitches Occurring In Time' LP Two luminous multi-textured ambient drones by Duane Pitre/Pilotram Ensemble. Both compositions were improvised around a score by sound-artist Duane Pitre utilising guitar, pump organ, violin, cello, viola, bass clarinet, alto saxophone and tone generator. Sonically placed somewhere between the minimalism of composer La Monte Young and the epic drone-scape ambience of Stars of The Lid, this is deep slowly-shifting mood music, or a monotone symphony. 'Organic
ambient bliss that followers of Stars of The Lid and Growing should
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The debut album by Small Town Boredom from Paisley, Scotland. 'Autumn Might Have Hope' intersperses crushingly melancholic lo-fi torch-songs with grainy, home-recorded experiments and buried field recordings. Drawing comparison with the fragile introspection of Low and Hood, this is a soundtrack to hope and hopelessness, and the emptiness in between. 'A
vinyl only release of sadly hushed singing tones, quietly strummed acoustic
songs and moody bedroom recording experiments. Fans of Hood will appreciate
the down-tempo vibes and ambient waves.' |
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Please see the catalogue page for ordering both releases. More to follow. TROME RECORD CLUB: Included
in each of the first five Trome releases is a Record Club token. Collect
each token from tromes oo1 - oo5 and mail all five tokens back to us
and you will be sent an exclusive limited record! ORDERING:
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