- Ambient drone
- Minimalism
- Experimentalism
- Avant-garde
- Microtonal
- Drone
- Microsound
- Abstract
Comment:
behind the project Thuuoom is a sonic experimentalist Tuomo from
Finland who has been issuing music since 2008 under his own imprint
Textural Healing. In the meantime I was quite worried because of
having had no releases by the artist for a while. However, in the
recent year he has issued four outings so date. I did recently review
his three-track issue Aste EP, which was the chaser of the
album Kaiut because the music for both albums had been
conjured up in one and the same session. Aste EP was a highly
microtonal, even abstract case, which contains a very few information
you could have dealt with it. It was rather a state of mind. Kaiut
is a longer issue physically containing 6 pieces and clocking in at a
65 minute. Its soundscape is more bright and more evocative. For
instance, the opening composition Electride starts off with
tanpura-alike drones, which later will convert into
more restrained yet somehow burning drones. Indeed, one could
perceive some lurid frequencies coming out of it. The same will be
represented in the next tracks yet with slightly different
modifications in tonality and intensity (I guess Tuomo uses some
sounds of found sound origin). At times it sounds as if coming from a
remote wasteland to ghost you with uncommon sounds and a conception.
One could imagine that the artist exploits the tape head for
recording music being made up of coal and lignite. From the album`s sleeve you can see he has used an acoustic guitar though you could not hear clear-cut guitar sounds on it. Thereof it can be admitted these instruments he has exploited on it are not things on their own but just the bare matter for further sonic processings. Indeed, those
brownish sounds predominate on the issue with some brighter slots and
slight turns and subtle changes. In a word, get it. It is a specific
yet intriguing issue for all drone and sound art inflected devotees.