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Philip Clemo s new album The Rooms is a hypnotic journey into sonic space: through individual sound rooms and into the places in between. It is also a journey of awakening. The album moves through moments of uncommon beauty, brooding reflection, intricate webs of textural complexity and atmospheric stillness. The Rooms was a complex project and took almost three years to complete. It began with Philip Clemo s preparations of dense atmospheres, created by processing and combining sounds from diverse sources, environmental and man-made. From these elements he constructed sound rooms for the guest musicians to explore. 22 individual musicians contributed to The Rooms, including B J Cole (pedal steel), Henry Lowther (flugelhorn and trumpet), Chloë Goodchild (voice), Theo Travis (saxophone and flute), Clive Bell (Asian flutes) and a Prague String quartet. Each performer s contribution was recorded individually, edited heavily, and distilled down to the essence of that event. The sessions, recorded in Prague and the UK, were often long and intense, bringing out extraordinary qualities in the performances. The sessions were recorded by veteran sound engineer Phill Brown, who has worked with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Bob Marley, Talk Talk and Dido amongst many others. Clemo sought out Brown since he felt he would understand the particular quality of sound he was after. Clemo and Brown chose studios very carefully and used vintage sound desks and valve microphones alongside the latest digital technology to carefully craft the exquisite sound of The Rooms.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Phil Wheeler
Format:Audio CD
Since buying The Rooms about a year ago I have returned again and again. It is music that continues to reveal itself in terms of textures, depth, and structure. These spaces are interesting places to go for the mind and the ears. I enjoy giving complete attention to music and this is one of the albums I now go to for that level of immersion in a sound world.
Intricate, and yet full of light and space, Philip Clemo's album is a complex and rewarding place to be; it is also very beautiful.
There is an ever-shifting intensity of wonderful drumming in 'The Place' over some 17 minutes that is truly stunning. Dirk Wachtelaer has the rare combination of rhythmic precision while slowly generating a storm, then bringing things back to a mesmeric pulse. And the music here really can groove nicely. 'Dream of Shattered Mirrors' has an all-time classic bass figure that underpins a ride through a landscape with wide sonic skies. Ambience and motion that sound great cranked loud.
Endless textures are here, subterranean, percussive, hammond organ, guitars, piano, woodwind and brass, natural sounds and rare instruments it would be hard to guess; Philip Clemo has the skill to allow this complexity to evolve organically, to ebb and flow without letting things get too busy. He clearly has great taste in his choice of key musicians and his producer here (Phill Brown).
The Rooms keeps on giving up new secrets. Simultaneously meditative and full of movement - impossible to pin down. Gorgeous.
Intricate, and yet full of light and space, Philip Clemo's album is a complex and rewarding place to be; it is also very beautiful.
There is an ever-shifting intensity of wonderful drumming in 'The Place' over some 17 minutes that is truly stunning. Dirk Wachtelaer has the rare combination of rhythmic precision while slowly generating a storm, then bringing things back to a mesmeric pulse. And the music here really can groove nicely. 'Dream of Shattered Mirrors' has an all-time classic bass figure that underpins a ride through a landscape with wide sonic skies. Ambience and motion that sound great cranked loud.
Endless textures are here, subterranean, percussive, hammond organ, guitars, piano, woodwind and brass, natural sounds and rare instruments it would be hard to guess; Philip Clemo has the skill to allow this complexity to evolve organically, to ebb and flow without letting things get too busy. He clearly has great taste in his choice of key musicians and his producer here (Phill Brown).
The Rooms keeps on giving up new secrets. Simultaneously meditative and full of movement - impossible to pin down. Gorgeous.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By N. Carlile
Format:Audio CD
This is a great album
A superb mix of sounds on many levels
Clemo is a great composer and this album really grows on you
A superb mix of sounds on many levels
Clemo is a great composer and this album really grows on you
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Harvey Bell
Format:Audio CD
fantastic new album, each time i listen it grows on me even more. the atmospheres created are both complex and deep, would thoroughly recommend it
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