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Go to the Tarab website  Tarab - Wind keeps even Dust Away [23five - 2007]

There’s something rather haunting yet calming about the sound of wind, I guess you could almost call it’s natures music or often rtyhmic breath. With Wind even Keeps dust away soundartist Tarab( aka Eamon Sprod) manipulations and layers wind sounds to such an captivating and very musical effect giving them an almost mystical quality.

The wind recordings are made through tunnels, over wind chimes, or just bare wind whistle or call seemly along abandoned streets or disused industrial complexes. But he doesn’t just simple present us with wind recordings  he composers and creates with them, layering up textures of sound, letting certain pitches streached out and drone, or ring in an eerier often shrill manner, moving the sound elements out into strange rhythmic and tinkling patterns that offer up such rich sound treats. He also utilizes other sounds as well as wind, he mixes in the breaking glass,  water in broken pipes, low road drone, distant industrial clanging and bending, bird and natural sounds, sea, heavy rain down pours- and other sounds your often unshaw of their origin.  The album manageds to be haunting, strange and clever- the sound pallet always active and interesting, Sprod mangers to cut the sounds so they never out stay their effectiveness, atmosphere or musically and sound impact. Often giving a 3 dimensional feeling to the recordings, as if you can put your hand into them and feel the environments and sounds, there recorded with such rich sonic detail, pitch and quality.


A very fine album that mangers to utilise sound elements and environmental recordings to build wonderful rich sonic and musically worlds. I can really seeing this having appeal beyond the simple  sound recording/ environmental fans- this will appeal to people who enjoy drone, ambient and something a little bit different.

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Roger Batty
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