Vince Clarke 'Songs Of Silence' LP
£21.49
Pre-order. Due 17th November.
As the album title suggests, Songs of Silence is a lyric-less, instrumental album, and is hugely evocative for that.
Unlike anything you’ve previously heard from Vince Clarke, as an artisan of dynamic electropop, (Erasure, Depeche Mode, Yazoo), Songs of Silence has about it a more sober ambient electronic beauty, its unique characteristics put it in a category of
its own. For the creation of the record Vince set himself two rules – first that the sounds he himself generated for the album would come solely from Eurorack (a modular synthesizer format introduced in the mid-90s) and secondly that each track would be based around one note, maintaining a single key throughout. The resultant pieces, with the Eurorack sound clay then manipulated on Logic Pro, amount to wordless narratives, in which a sense of synth-generated, cosmic remoteness is often
jolted by stark interventions, reminders of the human hand at work amid this machinery.
This album sees Vince Clarke not content to rest on his considerable pop legacy, and instead open up for
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Label: Mute
