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| THE ROOMS | AMBIGUOUS DIALOGUES | SOUNDZERO | INHALE THE COLOURS |
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| The Rooms | ||
| This all adds up to pretty much a dream ticket. Clemo's "compositions" meander into your peripheral auditory field and recede again with dreamlike nuance. It's beautiful, transcendent and yes, indefinable. Chris Jones, BBC Online, UK. |
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| 4/5 stars. Quietly mesmerising... [an] aura of bleak beauty... clusters of sounds coalesce and disperse over hypnotic rhythms... deserves a wide hearing. John Bungey, The Times, UK. |
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| Ambiently atmospheric and, above all things, still... the centre of the music is the sound of musicians listening. Nick Coleman, The Independent on Sunday, UK. |
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| Layered compositions, jazz fuelled melodies and an absolute success. [Clemo's] hypnotic blend of lo-fi jazz infused experimentation is simply brilliant throughout. Three years in the making this album may have been but it is worth every minute. If it takes as long for a follow up then I'm more than prepared to wait. Joe Ward, Subba-Cultcha, UK. |
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| Clemo's hypnotic grooves form the backdrop for rich and satisfying textures John L Walters, The Guardian, UK. |
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| 4/5 stars. A sequence of brooding personal narratives Mike Hobart, Financial Times, UK. |
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| Clemo is clearly investigating where jazz meets rock, and chill-out electronica in an inventive and fresh way. Peter Bacon, The Jazz Breakfast, UK. |
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| Ambiguous Dialogues | ||
| Startlingly original writing. . . alternately hypnotises and charms. This album neatly encapsulates how even the strongest musical bloodlines are now in flux... music that creates its effect on its own terms. Stuart Nicholson, The Observer, UK. |
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| Mesmeric and completely addictive. Nicholas Royle, The Wire, UK. [read the complete review] |
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| Clemo possesses the compositional vision to draw from a vast array of source material - from John Cage to electric Miles via Brian Eno - and create something both intensely personal and profoundly beautiful... a fascinating and richly textured recording. Peter Quinn, Jazzwise, UK. [read the complete review] |
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| A very beautiful CD. . . a mixture of improvisation, elaborate composition and post production shaping. . . hints at jazz, classical and World music but it always seems to sound like it's own music - a difficult trick to pull off. But the bottom line is that this sounds great. Mixing It, BBC Radio 3. |
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| Plenty of crackling electronics. . . the structures are open ended and layered, and there are good feels. 'Language' evolves from proto-Murcof to electric Miles in eight minutes. John L Walters, The Guardian, UK. |
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| Clemo leads a double-life as musician and filmmaker, and his sense of the visual drifts effortlessly into his musical structures... like competing characters in a film. Clemo's evocative 'location sound recordings' and his understated string writing gives the music an atmospheric sense of place... Chant's extended soprano saxophone solos are ravishing, and Clive Bell's unspoilt shakuhachi and flute playing adds a distinct flavour to the soundscape. This is a bold debut for Metier Jazz... an album I enjoyed greatly. Philip Clark, Jazz Review, UK. |
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| Fills the foreground with more lush vegetation and big-eyed animals than you would find in a Rousseau painting... 'Form' lands us in a magnificent downpour I have wished would never end, no matter how wet I got. Clemo builds the jungle in your head with a view of strange landscapes beyond. Bring a change of clothes, you may want to stay a while. Kenneth Egbert, Jazz Now, USA. |
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Brilliant noises. soundzero is full of them. . . surprising and unorthodox.
Neil Bennun, Straight No Chaser, UK. [read the complete review] |
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Captures and captivates. . . inspiring, evocative, solemn, unique and beautiful.
Xfade, UK. |
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Inhale The Colours
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An incredibly beautiful CD which is well off the beaten track. Truly hypnotizing.
Andrew Rawnsley, XLR8R magazine, USA. [read the complete review] |
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A vision that extends to more advanced jazz textures.
Lush solo playing with a gradual, meditative ambience. Tony Marcus, Mix Mag, UK. |
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Hidden depths. Virtually colourful music.
Nick Smith, Avant, UK. |
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Haunting and ethereal.
Hans Stoeve, Powerspot, Sydney. |