Humcrush

Thomas Stronen's percussion

My Twitter review of Humcrush (Stale Storløkken keyboards, Thomas Strønen percussion) at the Vortex on 16th April:

7.14pm

God, I hang my head in shame. First time ever in the ‘new’ Vortex. Why did it take me so long? Looking forward to Humcrush.

9.26pm

I love Stale Storløkken’s sound palette: haunted, ethereal, immediately recognisable. Likewise Stronen: spacious, silent and dense.

9.28pm

Strønen: one hand drumming, one hand processing.

9.37pm

Okay at this point I’m grinning like a hyena.

9.45pm

Storløkken looks like someone I used to share a squat with: earring, lived-in face, tie-dye shirt. Strønen, clean-cut, muscular, bit scary

10.11pm

Humcrush – quiet passages: non-Western, unearthly too? Percussion: controlled violence.

11.25pm

Empty platform. Ghost train, no lights.

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Published:: 23.04.10 / 1pm

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Alex Fiennes 24.04.10 / 8am

I very much like this format of twitter reviews – it gives a nice sense of the passing of time and experience. Hadn’t encountered it before, but hopefully it will happen more often.

I was the sound engineer for the concert (and the last 4 years of concerts and recorded Rest At Worlds End) – you may be interested to know that T + S gave me permission to release one of the unadulterated FOH live recordings from Oslo that is available here: http://www.dialogues-festival.org/2010-outlying/Humcrush
peter m 25.04.10 / 9am

wished i’d managed to make it there…
11V 16.05.10 / 8am

Thanks for the kind comment Alex and thanks very, very much for letting me know about that recording which I’m downloading at this very second!
Zoyd 03.06.10 / 8am

Oh, thanks for the link.

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