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The sonic equivalent of a warm bath. That's the first thing that comes mind when listening to Tom Heasley's album On the Sensations of Tone. Heasley is an improviser and composer who plays the highly unpopular tuba. The associations with the tuba are almost entirely connected with marching music and the likes, and the instrument is, therefore, easily dismissed from modern music.
Tom Heasley proves that, especially in the ambient and drone-loving community, the tuba can be everything you ever looked for in an instrument. On this album On the Sensations of Tone, Heasley creates a rich and deep sound, and incorporates that into his lengthy, spacy, ambient explorations. The two tracks on the album — one lasting 14 minutes, the other 42 — are completely improvised in the recording studio, and have no overdubs; everything is done in real time by Heasley himself, who leads his tuba sounds through effects and filters, and sometimes even provides some authentic throat singing. The first track, the 14-minute 'Prelude,' is exactly that warm bath of tones that I mentioned in the first line of this review. The man has an outstanding feel for serenity. The second track, the 42-minute 'Thonis,' is a different experience. It's a little less serene, darker, and a bit gloomy. The "at ease" feeling of the first track disappears into oblivion, and the quiet, but at the same time confronting, sounds of desolation take over the atmosphere. That atmosphere is not very different from David Sylvian's ambient album Approaching Silence, and that's definitely not a bad thing.
On the Sensations of Tone is a stunning album that combines the best aspects of both ambient and improvised music. And Tom Heasley is nothing less than a revolutionary tuba player.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/tom-heasley/on-the-sensations-of-tone/2039/
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