The new Robert Haigh disc is under the atypically earnest (as of late) name Robert Haigh and Silent Storm. The album consists of very clean, hi-fi friendly piano atmospherics. I enjoy it, though I'm not passionate about it. It's the sort of album that could really elevate a friendly dinner party, it's true, but I don't need many of those just yet.
The Seal Pool label has done an exquisite job piecing together a rather elegant, simple digipack for it. The limited edition of 100 (mine is no.95) has a nice architectural design and the picture you see there next to the track listing on the back is an actual, old photograph pasted onto the sleeve. Very nice.
Ready for the shocker? (And it is a shocker!) with the limited edition Haigh has included a bonus CDR of Sema material, seemingly from the tapes! "Theme from Hunger" is on there along with a little "best of" selection that I haven't yet matched up to the original sources. The sound is obviously unmastered, but it's thrilling to see him revisiting this old side. For those unfamiliar, Sema was a spotty project he did that mixed musique-concrete, dark ambient, and avant-garde/minimalist piano work to very successful result. The work's scarcity has bordered on the criminal for some time and was made all the more frustrating by Haigh's highly-regarded jungle records as Omni Trio following his abandonment of the Sema project. Haigh gained a lot of notoriety in some circles for his contributions to the Nurse With Wound record Spiral Insania and for his LP and cassette releases for the United Diaries label.
Mimaroglu has some of the ltd. edition discs here. Seal Pool has a disarmed, unselfconscious homemade video set to one of the Robert Haigh and Silent Storm tracks on YouTube.
you should have more dinner parties
Comment by qc — October 19, 2007 @ 7:57 pm
ya, i know :)
Comment by tm — October 28, 2007 @ 9:05 pm