Hiss

A 14 track album () — released October 9th 2000 on ASH INTERNATIONAL

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Opening with the solitary sound of a film projector, Ash International's Hiss compilation has more to do with cinema and storytelling than it does with music in the traditional sense. The montage of processed site recordings and chance recorded conversations maintains a high level of quality throughout. Evan Parker's saxophone solos over Disinformation 's chattering static upwellings has to be one of the most moving academic pieces I've ever heard. Other fantastic pieces include Hazard's shimmering forest ambience inspired 'Pylons', and Leif Elggren's heartbreaking, minimalist reflection upon his mother's death. The charming bits of conversation interspersed between many of the ambient tracks covers everything from alien voices, to prison breakouts, to even drag-racing. If you enjoy a thoroughly intriguing blend of found dialogue and abstract atmospherics, then this would be an excellent compilation to pick up. - Outburn

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