A Travers Le Bord

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Tomas Phillips and Dean King have been collaborating since 2000 under the moniker Eto Ami, which has produced three limited-edition CD-R’s before this more official album for Heribert Friedl’s sound art label Non-Visual Objects. À Travers le Bord (literally: Through the Edge) is the result of a long-distance collaboration in which King provided the sound materials that Phillips organized or composed into the final 37-minute piece. It is actually more of a suite of discreet short pieces, with silent interludes. Although the focus is on the quiet end of the spectrum, you won’t have to stretch your ears trying to grasp a sound. In any case, delicateness is more important than quietness on this particular album. Phillips and King are carefully setting their sounds in place, composing intriguing layouts. Crystalline tones, watery rumbles, electric buzzes and granular showers enter and exit according to an elegant choreography. One thinks of Bernhard Günter’s compositions circa Crossing the River, Steve Roden and Eric La Casa (for the field recording aspect of King’s work), but À Travers le Bord feels less methodical than that. There is warmth in this piece, something unusual in that particular niche of sound art, and the listener willingly moves from scene to scene, eager to hear what the next setting will be after a few more seconds of silence. At 37 minutes, the piece is short enough to sustain your interest until the very end.exper