Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Tim Story Title: Buzzle Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Label: Barking Green/Nepenthe Music Release Date: 1/2/2007 Genre: Dance & Electronic Style: Electronica Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 827912059847 |
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 | Tim Story Buzzle Genre: Dance & Electronic
A fascinating, engaging departure for Grammy-nominated composer Tim Story, buzzle is a rhythm-fueled diversion into atmospheric electronica. Spiky, organic grooves mingle with vaporous ambiences and creaky analog electr... more » |
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Album Description A fascinating, engaging departure for Grammy-nominated composer Tim Story, buzzle is a rhythm-fueled diversion into atmospheric electronica. Spiky, organic grooves mingle with vaporous ambiences and creaky analog electronics - picture yourself in a post-modern film noir, and buzzle is the soundtrack you'll have in your head. Those who know Tim Story as a craftsman of elegant, understated chamber music might need to dive beneath buzzle's kaleidoscope surface, but shouldn't be disappointed - there's much that's familiar here. Story's signature use of moody, elusive chord structures, angular melodic phrasing, and masterful sound design give buzzle its spooky and suspenseful character. But there's warmth and humor here, too - Story splashes his electronic environments with piano, guitar, cello, even the unexpected voices of his young daughters. Like those of Cluster or Boards of Canada, these pieces take on a life of their own, inhabiting a kind of quirky parallel universe. Buzzle is as pithy and elegantly composed as any music Story has created, with plenty of treats for those who listen for details. Atmospheric, enigmatic, programmatic - and above all, thoroughly enjoyable - all that Tim Story devotees love about his work is still here in spades. What's so surprising about buzzle? Perhaps it's that, in a decidedly different way, it is just what we've come to expect. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA Tim Story Diversion Frederick Smith | United States | 02/27/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "For long-time fans of Tim Story's hauntingly beautiful, contemplative space music--which rightfully earned him a place as one of the premiere artists on the Hearts of Space Record label--Buzzle will be somewhat of a departure, but one certainly worth taking. For those not quite ready to delve into the deeper world of such albums as Story's Glass Green (1987), Beguiled (1991), Drop (1997), and Shadowplay (2001), meanwhile, Buzzle will act as an excellent introduction to the artist's style. Subtitled "A Tim Story Diversion," the eclectic album finds Story's dark, signature ambiance woven with a masterful use of electronics, digital samples from several previous works, snippets of human voices (including those of the artist's daughters), and acoustic cello (provided by long-time collaborator Martha Reikow). But perhaps most striking for those who have kept up with Story's musical career is his fairly regular use of rhythmic percussion on Buzzle, which can be attributed to the artist's admitted "affection for what's now called electronica." Story's employment of percussion, however, is neither overdone nor merely grafted onto the music. Rather, it carefully evolves, almost organically, as the album progresses from such early pieces as "Rota," "Decelerate or Fasten," and "Monkey Builderizer," to such later pieces as "The Woman Singing," "You Are Patient," and "Yeh!" Along the way are several other notable works, including both "Otherize" and "Dust Bale Hole" at the mid-point--neither of which would have been too far out of place on Lunz, Story's superb 2003 collaboration with Hans-Joachim Roedelius--and a remix of Lunz's "Something Happened Here" (featuring Roedelius on piano)."
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