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Brian Parnham: The Broken Silence

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This album by Brian Parnham is another entry from the “school of Steve Roach." The sound-vocabulary that Parnham uses is very much like Roach's, with floating synthesizer chords, rattles, rainsticks, ceramic percussion, gongs, sampled natural and man- made sounds, and didgeridoo notes. This is all enhanced and made rhythmic by the use of (digital) looping devices. But Parnham's choice of chords and harmonies is somewhat different from Roach's familiar gestures. Parnham's sense of pacing and timing is much slower and ...

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