Knowing The Right Question To Ask

by Counter Silence

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1.	A Distance Yet To Travel 04:41	buy track
2.	The Slow March Of Clouds 04:17	buy track
3.	In The Brightness, We Would Linger 05:23	buy track
4.	When The Clocks Have Stopped 05:16	buy track
5.	The Balance Of Possibilities 03:45	buy track
6.	WonderLust 04:29	buy track
7.	Parting On A Sunday Morning 03:23	buy track
8.	All Secrets Dance In Time 05:15	buy track
9.	Towards The Sea 03:22	buy track
10.	We, Who Stand Still 04:19	buy track

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The Debut album from Counter Silence, otherwise known as UK based composer/producer Colin Ventura.

The album kicks off with an early highlight in the shape of ‘A Distance Left To Travel’, with its slow motion bell-like tones eerily reminiscent of a music box winding down to stillness. Piano appears to be more conventionally utilised on ‘In The Brightness, We Would Linger’, but the notes seem almost to have been dragged backwards out of a silence into which they had previously disappeared. The tempo is upped by ‘The Balance Of Possibilities’, with its chiming jauntiness suggestive of a malfunctioning automaton playing the marimbas. ‘Wonderlust’ departs most clearly from the album’s core focus on keyboard work, with its gentle ebbing and flowing drones offset by an accumulation of distant gong and wind chimes. The album reaches an apotheosis of radiant sonic stasis with the blinking star field of ‘All Secrets Dance In Time’, before the final piece, ‘We, Who Stand Still’, insinuates the tiniest hint of unease into proceedings, with its queasy slithering quality suggesting the nightmare that clings to the underside of the dream.

The Album received welcome exposure with the inclusion of the track ‘When The Clocks Have Stopped’ on The Wire magazine’s Wire Tapper 33 compilation CD, and airplay on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction programme.

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released April 10, 2018

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