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Fis & Rob Thorne
6+ albums
dark ambientnoiseelectroacousticdronete puoro maori
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A collaboration between two musicians from New Zealand, Fis and Rob Thorne. Rob Thorne (Ngāti Tumutumu) is a sound artist working with Māori instruments. Fis is a Berlin-based electronic composer who started out producing drum & bass but gradually evolved into abstract noise. Together they dismantle boundaries in space, time, and genre, juxtaposing Thorne's living, breathing practice with the weight of modern sound systems. Recording sessions at Berlin's Red Bull Studios were the starting point, committing Thorne's traditional Māori instrumentation to tape. Made of wood, stone, bone and shell, the instruments of taonga pūoro ("singing treasures") include various oblique-style flutes, horns, percussion, and objects spun above the player's head during performance. Amongst the instrumentation deployed by Thorne on Clear Stones is the Pūtātara (conch horn), Pūrerehua (bullroarer), and Tumutumu Kōhatu (stone percussion). However it's the Pūtōrino that features most regularly throughout; an instrument that is both flute and horn, both voices captured in one single take by Thorne on mid-album epic "Glurn Herrin". User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
