FatCat Info:

Foehn's 'Hidden Cinema Soundtrack' marks the first installment in FatCat's new imprint album series, SPLINTER. As we attempt to slow down our 12" output to a bare minimum, this series will be run in parallel with album releases on FatCat proper, but will occupy spaces closer to those inhabited by the split 12" series - a more leftfield, largely electronic-based terrain.
Regrettably, due to the marginal nature of much of this material, all imprint releases will be available on CD only. Foehn is the working alias of Bristol-based Debbie Parsons, a former partner of Matt Elliot in Third Eye Foundation. Following two solo albums on Bristol's SwarfFinger label ('InsideOutEyes' from '97 and last year's 'Silent Light') and an early FatCat split 12" (Foehn v Gescom - which sold 3,000 copies!), 'Secret Cinema Soundtracks' marks Foehn's third album, and her first for FatCat.

Like Third Eye, Foehn's music is cut-up and sprawling, dark, emotional and urban. Grainy samples of film dialogue, street-noise (captured lo-fi on a dictaphone) and everyday ambience - horns, creaking doors, engines, etc. - are layered and twisted around live playing and concrete percussion to form a series of chopped-up, heavily schizophrenic constructions.

Recorded at home in her bedroom, the album utilises a wide range of instrumentation - cello, piano, trumpet, voice, flute, guitar, drums, and xylaphone - alongside a use of samplers, fx and the mixing desk. What emerges is a bold and honest, highly creative meshing together of live playing (with 'scars' / mistakes often left evident), and studio sorcery / stitching together. Here, digital technology becomes comfortably integrated with more traditional instrumentation, being lent an audibly 'human' touch.

28 tracks (spanning nearly three years of producton) lead the listener through a sprawling maze of brief, perplexing atmospheres and events: from the frantic, spas.......
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Piękna, ciemna, nostalgiczna i podniosła muzyka - 28 krótkich perełek.
Zresztą Foehn to pseudonim Debbie Parsonsa, współpracownika Matta Elliota w Third Eye Foundation - to powinno wystarczyć za rekomendację.


FatCat Info:

Foehn's 'Hidden Cinema Soundtrack' marks the first installment in FatCat's new imprint album series, SPLINTER. As we attempt to slow down our 12" output to a bare minimum, this series will be run in parallel with album releases on FatCat proper, but will occupy spaces closer to those inhabited by the split 12" series - a more leftfield, largely electronic-based terrain.
Regrettably, due to the marginal nature of much of this material, all imprint releases will be available on CD only. Foehn is the working alias of Bristol-based Debbie Parsons, a former partner of Matt Elliot in Third Eye Foundation. Following two solo albums on Bristol's SwarfFinger label ('InsideOutEyes' from '97 and last year's 'Silent Light') and an early FatCat split 12" (Foehn v Gescom - which sold 3,000 copies!), 'Secret Cinema Soundtracks' marks Foehn's third album, and her first for FatCat.

Like Third Eye, Foehn's music is cut-up and sprawling, dark, emotional and urban. Grainy samples of film dialogue, street-noise (captured lo-fi on a dictaphone) and everyday ambience - horns, creaking doors, engines, etc. - are layered and twisted around live playing and concrete percussion to form a series of chopped-up, heavily schizophrenic constructions.

Recorded at home in her bedroom, the album utilises a wide range of instrumentation - cello, piano, trumpet, voice, flute, guitar, drums, and xylaphone - alongside a use of samplers, fx and the mixing desk. What emerges is a bold and honest, highly creative meshing together of live playing (with 'scars' / mistakes often left evident), and studio sorcery / stitching together. Here, digital technology becomes comfortably integrated with more traditional i.......
more