Description

The original soundtrack from Thomas Riedelsheimer’s award-winning film Touch the Sound. An unforgettable sonic journey with Evelyn Glennie, Fred Frith and a very diverse range of guest artists. At the heart of Every life-form there is rhythm. Movement, flow, change, renewal and repetition are all based in rhythm – and it is only in rhythm that we can experience time. Without vibration, without oscillation, there is static. There is nothing. Stability and solidarity are illusions. Everything oscillates and vibrates – from the bridge of steel and concrete, to the energy shells dancing around the atom. Even colours oscillate at different frequencies. We recognise and experience our world through rhythm. Everything vibrates – everything ‘speaks’ It is, in essence, a universe of sound.

The film is available to buy on DVD here.

Track Listing

1. Warm up
2. Tam-Tam Wave
3. New York Sounds
4. Tapdance
5. Airport Rhythm
6. Central Snare
7. Arriving
8. Sound Check
9. Silence
10. Breath
11. Taiko
12. Tokyo Voices
13. Metal
14. Drums ‘n’ Guitar
15. Tokyo Night
16. Chopstick Solo
17. Marim-Bar
18. Memories
19. A Little Prayer
20. Seaside
21. In the Womb
22. Hell’s Kitchen
23. The Way

Artists

Percussion & Found Objects: Evelyn Glennie
Guitars & Found Objects: Fred Frith
Tapdancer: Roxane Butterfly
Taikos & Drums: Za Ondekoza
Piano: Misa (This)
Violin: Saikou (This)
Foghorns: Jason ‘The Fogmaster’
Drumkit: Horazio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez

Label

Normal N 267 CD

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Not available digitally on Spotify, Amazon Music or Apple Music.