Spot of the Foul (total mass retain), by Tim Olive

Spot of the Foul (total mass retain)

by Tim Olive

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	1.	Spot of the Foul 1 04:40
	2.	Spot of the Foul 2 07:07
	3.	Spot of the Foul 3 06:06
	4.	Spot of the Foul 4 07:03
	5.	Spot of the Foul 5 11:29

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Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly:
Now, here's quite a rare thing: a solo release by Tim Olive. His previous solo release is from 2008… In the five pieces here, Olive shows that he's quite good at using the most abstract sounds, scratching real surfaces as it were, and finding a dialogue, abstract as it may is, between these sounds. Although much of his work deals with improvised music, I would think that this more in the world of electro-acoustic music or musique concrète, but from a slightly more noisy perspective, which, for instance, in the second track leads to some powerful drone music, but just as well to concentrated scraping of surfaces and more mellow drones. A touch of industrial music, one could say, is also never far away for Olive. In these pieces, Olive has some excellent variation on his music, the whole dynamic of loud versus quiet, dense versus sparse and acoustic versus electric. Listening to this, I have no idea why Olive doesn't do more of this solo work. Unless, of course, he finds a different dialogue, one between musicians, of more interest and this is rather his forced work due to circumstances beyond his control. Whatever the case, this is a great job.

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released May 16, 2021

Recorded in Kobe in the winter of 2020, this is the second-ever solo release from Tim Olive, his first since 2008. Olive’s work is based on direct, real-time collaboration, generally using relatively minimal editing and mixing, but circumstances encouraged a different approach; this release features somewhat more elaborate editing and mixing techniques, mainly the multiple layering of varyingly similar and dissimilar solo tracks, in a manner akin to the superimposition of multiple photo slides.

magnetic pickups, metal plates, springs, wire, tuning forks, electromagnets, bow, breath, dental floss, envelope generator, fuzz, spring reverb, preamplifier

Recorded and mixed by Tim Olive in Kobe, Winter 2020
Mastered by Alan Jones, cover by Marc Bell
Catalog Number: 845-19

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A selection of recordings by Kobe-based Canadian musician Tim Olive.
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