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Review: 'MYHR, KIM'
'Bloom'   

-  Label: 'Hubro'
-  Genre: 'Ambient' -  Release Date: 'October 2016'-  Catalogue No: 'HUBROCD2578'

Our Rating:
Kim Myhr is a one man band from Norway though not the kind you are likely to find busking on a street corner.

He has written for chamber ensembles and theatrical projects and his previous solo album - All Your Limbs Singing - was a minimal affair described by Clive Bell in The Wire as "a delirious love letter to the 12-string acoustic guitar".

On Bloom, Myhr embraces electronic processing commenting "I wanted to work with sound in a different way".

The shimmering quality is still evident in the opening track (Sort Sol) but takes on a darker, even faintly menacing character. Only on Swales Fell do we find any mellow, acoustic strumming.

As with noise and drone music, the emphasis overall is on layered textures over straightforward melodies. The motorik style beats of O Horizon and jagged chimes of Peel Me nevertheless give a sense of momentum that is often absent in those genres.

Above all, you never lose sight of the fact that there are real instruments within the dense structures and the quiet acoustic passage at the end of the closing track Milk Run Sky is a reminder that the complexity is still rooted in minimalism.
  author: Martin Raybould

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MYHR, KIM - Bloom