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The Foley Room by: Amon Tobin CD-Charts Price: $21.98 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 6259781121204 Format: Enhanced Label: Ninja Tune Manufacturer: Ninja Tune Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Ninja Tune Release Date: March 06, 2007 Studio: Ninja Tune Sales Rank: 64672 MPN: 121 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Album Description: Electronic beatmaking legend Amon Tobin reinvents himself on Foley Room, an album meticulously created from field recordings and other found sounds. Still very much an Amon record, but with fresh new underlying sounds. Includes bonus DVD documenting the process. Amazon.com: With Foley Room, Montreal's Amon Tobin throws his torch in with the blazing tradition of full-length works composed in the majority with found sounds. Having formerly made his name as a craftsman of vinyl samples into towering rhythmic dynamos like his fin-de-siècle LP, Supermodified, Tobin tries sampling the world for himself. With microphone in hand and his tape console slung over his shoulder, he captures the timbre of factories, a massive satellite dish, and local avant-garde improvisers with equal zest. One loping highlight comes early in "Big Furry Head," when during a token trip-hop lead-in--all reverb, squiggle, and over-compressed drumbeat--a tiger's hungry growls tears new life across the frequency spectrum, signaling the abyss-deep thump of Tobin's next new groove. Whether he's wandering through lush, meandering string workouts ("Bloodstone") or more aggressive avenues toward beauty ("Ever Falling"), Tobin's gait is ever informed by the beat. But where some contemporary found-sound sculptures like Matthew Herbert's Plat du Jour keep a more strident sampling ethos in the service of musical politics, Tobin's approach clearly reeks with a love of sound manipulation as its own reward: every process an adventure, each completed work a revelation. --Jason Kirk Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Sound landscapeThis is such an interesting album. I listen to it to try to catch all the little details Tobin has put in his music. I am addicted already. Enjoy! Rating: - my favorite tobinI have all the Amon Tobin releases, and I have to say that this one is my favorite. At times it is raucous and hard (big furry head), at times it is beautiful and soft (at the end of the day), at times it is dark and haunting (bloodstone), and at times it makes you wonder how in the world the sounds are being generated... it is a great trip. I think some listeners might be a little caught up in the project concept, or are just unable to deal with a slightly different sound. Maybe others just don't like any of the softer stuff... probably the same ones that don't like Amon's jazzier tunes as well. It is a shame for them, cause they are missing out. Try to appreciate an artist taking risks and keeping his sound fresh, rather than lamenting ... Read More: Rating: - In the midst of an evolutionThe Foley Room is his first attempt at the realm of found sounds, and that's his only basis (His other one: Chaos Theory, really doesn't fall into the same way of sampling like this one). It's intriguing for what this guy does, but I feel that he has a bit of a way to go before he can make a found sound recording and it be as intriguing as his first four albums. What do I mean? I mean that this album isn't as engaging or as good as his other stuff. However, he is fairly new at this kind of stuff. But if you look at how much he evolved during his work prior to the found sounds (around Chaos Theory), it's very exciting. Who knows what this guy will do in the future now that he has embraced a microphone and can record anything ... Read More: Rating: - Headphone Commute ReviewIf Ninja Tune was entirely in its own music genre (and I'd like to claim that it is), then it would be hard for its roster to compete with its staple artist, Brazilian born Amon Adonai Santos de Aravjo Tobin, who for over a decade has graced our ears with abstract downtempo trip hop and experimental jazzy breaks. Such is the case with Foley Room, an organic and at times dark album, that swirls and loops through filtered sweeps and broken beats. For his sixth release, Tobin abandoned his perfected technique of sampling from dug up vinyl, and built an ambitious collage of field and studio recordings with the help of The Kronos Quartet, Stefan Schneider (To Rococo Rot) and harpist Sarah Pagé. The elaborately cut up bits and pieces of familiar every ... Read More: Rating:  - Certainly not the best from Tobin ..I've been a die hard Amon Tobin fan for many years. Also, being into music production for about 6 years, means that I have a LOT of respect for the man and what he does with sounds. This album is probably in my opinion the least musical of all his albums. It still has that dark and edgy Amon Tobin vibe that he is so famous for, but some of the tracks on the album just miss the point a bit, with too little musicality. Sure it's interesting out of an "experimental" perspective, the rhythmic work is complex and inspired etc., but some of the tracks have little direction and no real tune to them, which I personally find a bit bothersome and hard to listen to. Tracks like "Big Furry Head" and "Always" make the album more worthwhile though. ... Read More: |
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