(2025) Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer - Different Rooms [FLAC]

       Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer – Different Rooms (2025)    





Review by Paul Simpson:

After releasing a collaboration with new age pioneer Ariel Kalma, Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer recorded the material that ended up forming the bulk of Different Rooms. The duo's music is a mixture of live improvisation, studio experimentation, and field recordings, often created during the editing process. Different Rooms includes sounds captured from within cities as well as home environments, and it's meant to have a more direct, present feel, rather than the otherworldliness of their first album together, Recordings from the Åland Islands. The pieces generally blend Chiu's warm, alert synth pulsations and ambient textures with Honer's multi-tracked viola playing, which sometimes glides smoothly, as on the shimmering "Long and Short Delays," and other times takes more of a central, melodic role, as it does on the more complex "Speaking in Parallel." Two tracks incorporate elements of previous live collaborations recorded in 2023. "Side by Side" is built around Jeff Parker's ascending guitar figures, while Josh Johnson's gentle saxophone notes are woven throughout "Different Rooms," one of a few selections featuring nearly subliminal vocalizations by Giovanna Jacques. "One of Eight" submerges chanting and bells recorded at a Taiwanese temple under trickling, pulsing synths. Two tracks near the end are meant as reflections of pieces from earlier in the album, with "Side by Side (reflected)" electronically re-creating Parker's ascending guitar sequences, and "Mean Solar Time (reflected)" resembling a more lullaby-like variation on the opening composition. Different Rooms is a nebulous haze of semi-familiar melodies and half-heard voices, forming an abstract dreamscape. — AMG





   





Track List:

01 - Mean Solar Time

02 - Long and Short Delays

03 - Side by Side (feat. Jeff Parker)

04 - One of Eight

05 - Before and After Signs

06 - Different Rooms (feat. Josh Johnson)

07 - Speaking in Parallel

08 - Side by Side (reflected)

09 - Mind by a Way

10 - Mean Solar Time (reflected)





Media Report:

Genre: ambient, jazz

Origin: Los Angeles, California, USA  

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec

Bit rate mode: Variable

Channel(s): 2 channels

Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz

Bit depth: 16 bits

Compression mode: Lossless

Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)





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