02 April 2018

Throwing Snow "Embers" (2017)

Embers
release date: Jan. 20, 2017
format: digital
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,33]
producer: Ross Tones
label: Houndstooth - nationality: England, UK

Tracklist: 1. "Cantor's Dust (Part 1)" - 2. "Cantor's Dust (Part 2)" - 3. "Helical" - 4. "Allegory" - 5. "Ruins" - 6. "Gossamer's Thread" - 7. "Klaxon" - 8. "Glissette" - 9. "Recursion" - 10. "Pattern Forming" - 11. "Prism (Part 1)" - 12. "Prism (Part 2)" - 13. "Cosms" - 14. "Tesseract"
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2nd studio album by electronic London-based project Throwing Snow aka Ross Tones is instrumental progressive, electronic or IDM, which both draws on more old-school techno as well as experimental electronic of the 1970s - I come to think of Jean Michel Jarre's early albums, and then there's a link to the works of Jon Hopkins.
The album consists of 14 individually tracks, but it's basically one long composition - moreover, the album ends the same way it starts, which makes it possible to listen to the album indefinitely.
Like with eg. Oxygène from 1976 by Jarre it's hard to pin out the best tracks as it's more one organic structure meant to be played from start to finish.
I really enjoy this.