Pholde – To Favour the Occurrence – CD/Download – Absurd Exposition – 2023 – AE76
https://absurdexposition.bandcamp.com/album/to-favour-the-occurrence
1.
Adjust
One’s Desires.
2.
Accompanying
the Onset.
3.
The
One Intended.
4.
Take
In Order.
5.
As
a Result of Action.
6.
In
Order to Gain.
7.
The
Process of Forming.
Pholde
is a project of Alan Bloor of Knurl; there have been Pholde releases since
2001.
To
Favour the Occurrence is an interesting album as it explores low level noise
that seems to be sourced from contact microphones and metal scrapings. It isn’t
Ambient or Dark Ambient in what it does due the obvious physicality of the
sounds and there is a strong exploration of a quieter use of noise and its inner
workings. The noise cuts into the silence gently as if to slightly disturb the
layer of tranquillity and the sound is incredibly subtle in its’ workings. The
titles Pholde uses seem to imply personal context as if relating to the artists
life or events around his life. This contrasts to the Piece numbers of his work
in Knurl greatly.
In
recent reviews, I am starting to see a lot of use of quieter sounds used in
work that I am sent. This often uses the slight disturbance of silence or
minimal use of noise used to create bigger holes in between sounds. There are
what I’d see as leaders where the subtle disruption of the quiet using sound is
particularly strong, those are Small Cruel Party and Spoils and Relics, but I
would add this project to that equation too.
To
Favour the Occurrence has served as my introduction to Pholde and I am very
impressed by the work that I have heard.
One
and alone, 2023.
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