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03/01/2004
Resonance,
Seattle
www.resonancemag.com
Tiny
Hairs Coldless
"Ambient-improvisational", "minimal", "folk-influenced"
- this is the lexicon used to describe Chicago's Tiny Hairs collective
on its one-sheet. Improvised though the sounds may be, and containing
the occasional dramatic hush that prompts the listener's sudden
awareness of his surroundings, this description pays little attention
to the album's subtle sonic yarn-spinning. On "Name Changed
to Persimmon", the violin's slight, intuitive backing off from
the mic after sawing out some icy, trumpet-like tones makes way
for elongated sheets of guitar harmonics and eurhythmic patters
of percussion. The sextet, schooled in structuring, makes its improvised
meta-music seem almost effortlessly composed, as in the algebraic
grooves of "Stalk of an Eye", which recall portions of
Tortoise's "Cliff Dweller Society". With a sonic palette
that includes the mercurial collages of Brise-Glace and This Heat,
and a hymnal culled from Cul de Sac's porch-sittin' post-rock, Tiny
Hairs tell us fantastic stories that words could not even begin
to do justice.
-
Jason Olariu
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