Four Tet and Tortoise meet Aphex Twin and Brian Eno in So
Percussion's breakout indie-electronica project, Amid the
Noise. Released alongside So Percussion's US tour with (Bjork
collaborators) Matmos last October, this disc pushes the
group into the limelight as a one-of-a-kind band of 4
drummers.
Critics raved about their first two discs; acclaimed albums of
rigorous music by modern master Steve Reich and even
more modern masters David Lang and Evan Ziporyn. In that
vein, their newest CD/DVD Amid the Noise began as an afterhours
project. Eager to expand their palette, the members of
So experimented with glockenspiel, toy piano, vibraphones,
bowed marimba, melodica, tuned and prepared pipes, metals,
a wayward ethernet port, and all kinds of sound
programming.The resulting idiosyncratic tone explorations
were synchronised to Jenise Treuting's haunting films of street
scenes in Manhattan and Tokyo.