High Tide Able Noise SKU: WOE016LP Barcode: 5055869551052 23.00 £23.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: World Of Echo Released Date: 1st November 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Forthcoming Pre Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Able Noise are a cross-continent duo based between The Hague (NL) and Athens (GR), built around the experimental baritone guitar and drum playing of George Knegtel and Alex Andropoulos. After a few formative attempts at collaboration, they officially came together as the Able Noise we see now in 2017, uniting over shared thoughts on art and performance encountered while studying at The Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague. Their first recorded work, a seamless 30 minutes of glistening post-rock anti-formalism, emerged in low-key fashion in 2020 as a cassette through Glasgow’s famed GLARC label. Numerous European wide tours and left-of-centre festival appearances led the pair back to the studio for the recording of debut LP, High Tide, to be released via World of Echo on 1st November. The shift to a studio environment was a significant one, since Able Noise was primarily conceived as a live band, thinking of and writing for the live concert experience specifically. Consider their practice an Active Performance of sorts, one that seeks to challenge understandings of the medium of the live arena, how its properties and limitations can be addressed creatively, and the dialogical relationship between performer and the audience. Those who have caught them live will have witnessed very physical yet malleable performances, shaped each time by the context at hand, be that the time of day, the acoustic properties of the space, and the shared energy of the assembled patrons. True to this approach, the pair have embarked upon the recording of their debut album with a similar exploratory impetus. In a studio without a physical audience to confront, the questions are suddenly quite different: how does one create a definitive recorded music initially rooted in improvisation, how is that recording then listened to and understood, and, without the spectacle of performance, how is it possible to work with the sense of hearing alone. Unsurprisingly, the music of High Tide is significantly different to that of an Able Noise live set. Minimalism has been traded for a detail-oriented approach, the limitations of two sets of hands suddenly lifted by the possibilities of multi-tracked thinking, post-production and various processing techniques. Real-time gives way to fragmentation, distortion and dilation, and the shift is notable – High Tide is a woozy and often disorientating listen that plays quick and easy with conventional notions of structure, at once both centreless and impressionistic, yet somehow guided by an imagined formless space. Reliant much less on their own capabilities – and limitations! – as musicians, Knegtel and Andropoulos heartily invited the contributions of friends from both their local Athenian music community and those made while playing the UK, with the important disclaimer given that anything played during the recording session will not sound the same once on record. The result is duos, trios, quartets and sextets playing in different experiences of time, and on dynamic scales vastly different from one another, brought to equal footing. Critically, the wholesomeness of their creative communion belies the darker theme of inertia that the pair acknowledge runs throughout the album, a sense of bodies of very different weights and momentums existing alongside each other, either adapting to or clashing with one another. In short, the outside world can’t help but seep in, even as you create within your own hermetic universe – the feeling of hopelessness amidst endless political and social strife, obsolescence in the face of technological development, time’s inexorable march. These are things we’ve all felt, and while High Tide, like much before it, doesn’t provide any definitive resolution for these challenges, it does present its own set of unique possibilities written in the shared language of its creators. RIYL: Caroline, Tortoise, Tara Clerkin Trio, Gastr Del Sol, Jim O’Rourke Artist Able Noise Genre Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label World Of Echo Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings To Appease Crickets Providence Boycott Tumbling Inertia Ceaseless sun Garden To Two Violence Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo View Product Quick View Copyrights, The Report Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Red Scare Industries | 1LP Released 29th September 2014 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Copyrights, The Report £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Red Scare Industries SKU: CCCP180LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 29th September 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Carson Wells No Relic Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Adagio 830 | 1LP Released 15th June 2018 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Carson Wells No Relic £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Adagio 830 SKU: ADAGIO830158 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 15th June 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Babes In Toyland Fontanelle Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 14th July 2023 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Babes In Toyland Fontanelle £28.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP3372C Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 14th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders On Sale View Product Quick View Kris Rodgers Losing The Frequency Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Rum Bar | 1LP Released 13th February 2018 £6.99 £19.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Kris Rodgers Losing The Frequency £6.99 £19.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Rum Bar SKU: RUM024LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th February 2018 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View Treeboy & Arc Natural Habitat Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | EMI | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 7th July 2023 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Treeboy & Arc Natural Habitat £18.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: EMI SKU: CLUE114VI Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 7th July 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Skeptics III Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Flying Nun Records | 1LP Released 11th December 2015 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Skeptics III £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Flying Nun Records SKU: FNCT011LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 11th December 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Modern Baseball Holy Ghost Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Big Scary Monsters | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 12th May 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Modern Baseball Holy Ghost £16.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Big Scary Monsters SKU: BSM184V Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 12th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View War On Women Wonderful Hell Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Bridge Nine | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released 20th November 2020 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders War On Women Wonderful Hell £21.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Bridge Nine SKU: B9R269 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl, Includes Download Code Released Date: 20th November 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Sonny Smith Rod for your Love Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch | 1LP Released 2nd March 2018 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Sonny Smith Rod for your Love £22.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch SKU: 0075597932850 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 2nd March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Various Artists Soul Jazz Records Presents ‘Two Synths, A Guitar (And) A Drum Machine – Post Punk Dance Vol. 1’ Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo | Soul Jazz | 2LP Released 22nd January 2021 £25.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Various Artists Soul Jazz Records Presents ‘Two Synths, A Guitar (And) A Drum Machine – Post Punk Dance Vol. 1’ £25.00 Genre: Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Label: Soul Jazz Released Date: 22nd January 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Alternative Rock / Punk Rock / Emo Start again
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