Collin Thomas : Windows/Walks
Composed of field recordings and a small amount of instruments, Windows/Walks is an extremely slow and quiet album. Sounds include ice hitting a window, a stream that flutters though a children’s park, and a humid night with very little going on. The album is best experienced through headphones, or far in the background of a dark room.
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Back in Vital Weekly 655 I reviewed ‘For The Painters’ by Collin Thomas, which was inspired by various painters and Thomas used percussion and processing thereof as his tools of trade. This new album is however something else. No percussion as far as I can tell, but as extensive use of field recordings and ‘a small amount of instruments’, as Thomas writes. That may include a piano, I think. A few nights ago I woke of heavy thunder. As it was six in the morning, the birds were already up. After a giant thunder, one could hear just the birds and then slowly heavy rain came, which died out rather quickly, and the birds and occasional thunder remained. As a musical event I thought that was beautiful. But it wasn’t captured on tape, so was it music? I wish I did a recording and maybe added some piano, but it seems not necessary. The field recordings made by Thomas seem to me sound events that happen too, like rain at night, ice hitting the window and other watery events. Collins sits
back
and watches things happening, sometimes tinkling the piano. He may have added a bit of processing afterwards, but if so, he kept that to a strict minimum. This music is what Brian Eno intended when he thought of Ambient music. Music that surrounds you. Best played at a low volume, doors and windows open, and let whatever is happening on this disc tickle through with what whatever is happening around you. Nice one. Should have been a CDR release! (FdW)
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