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Artist:	HAIGH AND SILENT STORM, ROBERT
Title:	From The Air
Label:	SEAL POOL
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	SPOOL 004CD

"Robert Haigh is best known for his innovative drum and bass work of the '90s. But some may know him from the early '80s where he was part of a circle of 'musicians' carving out a niche in experimental, ambient, electronic and avant-garde music. Alongside artists such as Nurse With Wound, Current 93 and Hafler Trio, Haigh produced a much sought-after series of albums and EPs under the name Sema. In the late '80s, Haigh grew tired of the simplistic equation that experimental = noise/dissonance (exclusively), and decided to expand his horizons, experimenting with computers and samplers. In the early '90s, he signed to the legendary Moving Shadow label and produced a series of highly-acclaimed albums and singles under the name Omni Trio. With From The Air we come bang up-to-date with Haigh's career. This album finds a common ground between the approaches of the two previous decades. Here the use of breaks is minimal and employed only as a component part of a track's structure ('Shift Work,' 'Three Revolutions' etc.). On 'X-Generation' and the title track 'From the Air,' piano and keyboards are to the fore, providing a tapestry of interlocking counterpoint where melody is exploited minimally in shifting patterns to build the momentum of the tracks. Some pieces are mainly solo piano reminiscent of the atmospheric and haunted work of Sema (A Secret Place, River Man, Evolution Crawls etc.). This collection of 'post minimalist sonic landscapes' (Wikipedia) utilizes complex time signatures, layers of shifting counterpoint, deeply haunting melodic phrasing and atmospheric production to present a hugely satisfying yet challenging sonic journey."

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