Gridface web site, November, 2001
Simon Pyke ought to be spoken of in the same breath as Tom Jenkinson, Rob Brown, and Sean Booth the sounds he turns out are always original and inspired.
Album Description
Audio Tourism: Freeforms sixth album continues to push and blur the boundaries between organic/harmonic acoustic sounds and machines. Simon Pyke - aka Freeform (previous releases on Warp, Skam, Ninja Tune, Leaf, Worm Interface) adds a unique travelogue of recordings made during a 3-month journey in China, Vietnam and Hong Kong. Whilst recording the album real instruments, collected during the trip, were used with a kind of playful ignorance. Modified Zither, human beat box through Tibetan horn, electronically processed traditional folk songs and the Vietnamese monochord as the ultimate sub bass machine.