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Artist
Counter Silence
12+ albums
ambient
about
Debut album out on the 3rd February. Buy from http://www.subexotic.com/ Counter Silence is Southend based composer/producer Col Ventura. His debut album Knowing the right question to ask, is an assured collection of ambient pieces, both exquisitely dreamlike and achingly melancholy. Painstakingly constructed from intricately layered minimalist piano, subtly developing drones, and beautifully judged reverberation, Counter Silence music is spectral, otherworldly and strangely alluring. The most obvious points of comparison for Knowing the right question to ask probably lie with the early work of Harold Budd, together with the string of 1970s albums with which Brian Eno pretty much single-handedly defined the ambient genre. On a more contemporary note, the album at times possesses a vibe that recalls the solo work of The Necks’ Chris Abrahams. Col also cites Miles Davis’ classic In A Silent Way as an aesthetic touchstone, and one can sense him reaching towards that feeling of cocooned immersion which Davis achieved so perfectly with his electric jazz landmark. Col’s first steps in music production came when he started creating soundtracks to the animated films that he was working on at art college in Norwich, and at this time he mainly experimented with sound generation through manipulating and scratching guitar strings. Following these initial forays he left music in the background for a period while he concentrated on working in other areas, particularly animation and wri
