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The Persistence Of Memory
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The Persistence Of Memory was the culmination of a well calculated plan which was ultimately foiled as Roedelius and Story were swept away in a fever of abstract expressionism.
Artist: Tim Story
Hans-Joachim Roedelius
Release Date: February 1999
Genre: New Age; Ambient
Track Count: 1
Running Time: 55 minutes
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On 9 October 1999, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Tim Story performed together at The Gatherings Concert Series in Philadelphia. What the audience experienced inside St Mary's church was the realization of a long dreamed of collaboration. The wondrous concert was the culmination of a well calculated plan which was ultimately foiled as the two artists were swept away in a fever of abstract expressionism. Rehearse all you like, intuition, timing and environment are at the heart of this art as the very nature of the sound collage is indeterminacy.Just over a year later, the duo has released The Persistence Of Memory, a 56 minute homage to their pre-, post- and Gatherings concert collaboration. The disc melds studio sessions with tape from the live concert while the music combines Roedelius's sonic abandon and Story's lyrical warmth. Without rhythm, the music twists and shifts in imaginative ways and the listener is soon lost in the thoughts, memories and passions of two extraordinary talents. To produce The Persistence of Memory, Roedelius and Story had to enter the darkness of improvisation. The music here is the shadow cast by the enlightenment gained at concert's close.
– Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END
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(Monday, 22 February 2010)Rating:
56 minutes of sonic mind mapping and meteorology from Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Ohio-based Tim Story: a part (and Arvo Part-y) studio meditation on the passage of music into memory, part blotchy Daguerrotype of their Philadelphia concert on the former's 1999 Indian Summer tour. The duo loop their way through and beyond an series of hung oscillations, goosing the synthesiser's circuitry and tossing software manuals into the ether... a slow motion replay of recurring motifs, waiting to cohere into music. Rising thermals carry blown leaves of chromatic burr and dissonance... it tunes into a psychic FM, chancing across Charles Ives, Todd Dockstader, morphed samples of Roedelius' back catalogue. From start to end, a circular odyssey of longing and distance like the Arctic tern riding the Westerlies and Trades each year - the imprint of rotating constellations on its brain. Mostly inhabiting the warm side of autumn, sometimes a chill sets in - bursts of static, a twinge of regret, faded images in photograph album. It's evidence of some invisible narrative thread that you don't reach for the 'Stop' button on your CD player, which seems to deposit its richness into your head: like waves lapping sand onto a beach.
– Stephen Iliffe, Audion magazine, UK
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