Quiet
Noise – Music | Building | Music (Audiobulb Records)
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April 2016
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/ 10
Multi-instrumentalist releases his new album.
Adam Wilkinson has been busy making an album about
being busy. It’s one of those gems that
deserves wider recognition, and, if the interest attained by his last album
Audible Life (see review here) is anything to go by then it’s just around the
corner.
Under the name of Quiet Noise, Wilkinson has
created an album of uncomplicated but interesting rhythms and arrangements
which are both delightful and stimulating.
His work as a sound engineer and composer of soundtracks for nature
documentaries and short films has served him well as his ability to construct
increasingly entertaining and almost living pieces evident for all to see.
Using the format of a day at a workplace, Music
| Building | Music takes the trip to the place of employment and then skilfully
takes in several moments throughout the day before the return back home.
Album opener The Scenic Route starts the
metaphorical drive for success as the start to another laborious day
begins. Throughout the shift, intermittent
percussion and machinery sounds add to the effect of the album an almost begin
to tell the story without the use of words (bar the occasional shout from a
work colleague).
Along the way, we are treated to quiet, noise, (sic)
uniformity and disorganisation as the album treks from one track to the
next. Need A Minute is nothing short of delightful
as it slowly rises and the continual use of broken beats and slightly staggered
effects makes the album one of noteworthiness.
The Final Hour sees a last push to increase
productivity and achieve the day’s targets before the sounds of pistons and air
valves slowly gives way to human voices and the workers begin to wind down for
the day before machines are turned off and left to run down.
Album closer, I Earned This sees the writer having
time to relax maybe over a glass of beer or an hour in front of the television
before the events of the day are noisily washed out of the system in readiness
for the time of slumber.
It’s a thought-provoking album and one which
holds much credence to Wilkinson over ten tracks of well-thought out and well
executed instrumentalism.
Links
Audiobulb Records
Quiet Noise website
Quiet Noise on Twitter
Quiet Noise on Facebook
Published on Louder Than War 4/04/16 - here
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