A Quiet Corner In Time
Mute, 2020
8/10
Listen to A Quiet Corner In Time
Two very creative minds come together here on an unclassifiable listen where art and drama meet with a highly experimental template as Simon Fisher Turner, who has had a lengthy career in glam, pop and ambient sounds, and Edmund De Waal, a ceramicist and author, bring a wealth of ideas to the table.
“The Museums With Long Halls” starts the listen with plenty of atmosphere as ambient sounds and a spacey backdrop enters the ominous tone, and “We Begin To Be Certain” follows with a sci-fi appeal of precise sound manipulation.
Later on, “The Children Will Have To Stop” finds a cinematic place to reside with almost alien-esque noises amid the droning landscape, while “A Quiet Corner In Time” offers 5 minutes of pushing and pulling between tension and calm.
Near the end, “They Could Visit” sounds like it could soundtrack a video game in another dimension, and “You Don’t Have To Go Anywhere” exits the listen with a sparse introduction that builds into a haunting execution of iconoclastic song craft.
If there’s anything else out there that resembles the music made here, I certainly haven’t heard it. As long as you’re open to the unconventional and willing to embrace the unusual, A Quiet Corner In Time will captivate and inspire.
Travels well with: Loveletter- Beethoven Chopin Kitchen Fraud; King Of Luxembourg-Sir