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Joe Talia Tint
Now available from Black Truffle Records
Forced Exposure (USA)
Kompakt (EU)
Tint is the first new solo recording from Joe Talia in over a decade. Australian-born but now based in Tokyo, Talia is known to many listeners as a drummer (frequently collaborating both live and in the studio with artists such as Oren Ambarchi and Jim O’Rourke) and as a recording and mixing engineer responsible for dozens of releases across the fields of contemporary experimental music, wayward pop, and jazz. Alongside James Rushford, he is also responsible for one of the most legendary releases in the Kye records catalogue, the creaking electronic morass of Manhunter (2013).
Lovingly crafted over many months in his tiny Tokyo studio, Tint is an album-length electroacoustic suite that brings together Talia’s expertise as percussionist, studio engineer, and performer on analogue electronic instruments (primarily modular synth and Revox tape machine). Ranging from minimalist austerity to kosmische lushness, Tint refreshingly refuses the dark and moody sonic palette of much contemporary electroacoustic music in favour of an airy, at times almost weightless sound-world of gliding tones, skittering percussion, and burbling field recordings. Drawing inspiration from Jean-Claude Eloy’s epic concrète love letter to Tokyo, Gaku-No-Michi, Talia makes extensive use of his own recordings of his new home, but removes any sense of audio verite, abstracting them into transparent glosses of outdoor ambience or unidentifiable chimes and creaks. Flowing seamlessly between distinct episodes, Tint is compositionally controlled while retaining a sense of played spontaneity, eventually building to a maelstrom of analogue synth zaps and tape manipulated percussion that reflects Talia’s deep engagement with the relentless yet constantly shifting dynamics of free jazz.
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin.
Stunning photographs by Joe Talia and album design by Stephen O’Malley
Selected discography
Oren Ambarchi Hubris - Editions Mego 2016
Oren Ambarchi Knots Live - PAN 2015
Food Court Food Court - Kye 2015
Richard Pinhas, Oren Ambarchi Tikkun - Cuneiform Records 2014
Jim O'Rourke/John Duncan Yeah - iDEAL 2014
David Shea Rituals - Room40 2014
Ned Collette & Wirewalker Networking in Purgatory - Bronze Rat 2013
James Rushford & Joe Talia Manhunter - Kye 2013
Oren Ambarchi Audience of One - Touch 2012
Ned Collette & Wirewalker 2 - Fire Records 2012
Andrea Keller Quartet Wave Rider - Jazzhead 2012
James Rushford & Joe Talia Paper Fault Line - Bocian 2011
Oren Ambarchi & Joe Talia Hit & Run - Touch 2011
Francis Plagne Tenth Volume of Maps - Lost and Lonesome 2011
Andrea Keller, Genevieve Lacey, Joe Talia Three Lanes - 2011
Ned Collette & Joe Talia Long You Lie, 7" - Escobar 2011
James Rushford & Joe Talia Palisades - Sabbatical 2009
Ned Collette & Wirewalker Over the Stones, Under the Stars - Dot Dash 2009
Andrea Keller Quartet Galumphing "Round the Nation - Jazzhead 2009
Ned Collette Future Suture - Dot Dash 2007
Andrea Keller Quartet Little Claps - Jazzhead 2007
Joe Talia In/Exterior - Holding Pattern 2006
City City City The Perimeter Motor Show - Remote Control 2005