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Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno Finding Shore LP (Opaque Blue Vinyl) |
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Out of Print! Only 1 copy available!
Limited Edition Opaque Blue Vinyl LP - Only 1500 Copies!
Unique Collaboration Heralds A New Voice In The World Of Modern Classical Music!
Tom Rogerson's life as an improviser began when, as a toddler, he would
clamber up onto his family piano stool and try to emulate his sister's playing.
Now releasing his second solo album, a collaboration with Brian Eno, he feels
that his musical life has come full circle: "I remember smashing out C Major
chords again and again and really loving it. It's the same as what I do now,
funnily enough, I've come back to it."
After stints playing jazz in New York, a dilapidated fenland hotel and in noise
rock band Three Trapped Tigers, Rogerson ran into Eno at a gig. Bonding over a
love of the countryside of their Suffolk home, the pair entered the studio and
worked with The Piano Bar, a device that converted the sound of the piano into
midi signals, which were then further manipulated.
"It was this classic Eno, almost scientific thing," Rogerson says now.
"He always finds a system that can be a source of creativity." The result is
an album that uses Eno's magic to pull deep from Rogerson's subconscious to
evoke the strange flat landscape of Eastern England, all heathland, military
testing sites and estuary mud. "I do totally hear it, I'll listen and think
'oh that sounds like the bells at Woodbridge, that's the birds, the wind
rustling in the reeds'," Rogerson says. "I think it permeates my music,
and Brian's ambient records. That 'is it organic or is it electronic thing' is
so interesting."
Features:
• Vinyl LP
• Opaque Blue Vinyl
Selections:
Side A:
1. Idea Of Order At Kyson Point
2. Motion In Field
3. On-ness
4. March Away
5. Eastern Stack
6. Minor Rift
7. The Gabbard
8. Red Slip
Side B:
1. Quoit Blue
2. Marsh Chorus
3. An Iken Loop
4. Chain Home
5. Rest
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