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ARTIST
ROM
TITLE
Foot Signal
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
PINGIPUNG
CATALOG #
PING 033CD
PING 033CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
6/5/2012
The New York and Miami based-duo
ROM
deliver this CD with 12 wildly energetic instrumental pieces. Pingipung very happily welcome
Roberto Carlos Lange
and
Matt Crum
to their artist family. ROM is the vibrant collaboration of two sound artists who have been on the radar for a long time, as members of beloved projects such as
Savath & Savalas
(Warp, with
Prefuse 73
's
Guillermo Scott Herren
),
Comic Wow
(Asthmatic Kitty, with
Tortoise
's
John McEntire
) or Roberto's solo project
Helado Negro
. ROM's first appearance marked their self-titled debut on the Japanese WIMM imprint in 2005. Despite having been recorded over the span of three years, and in various locations in different cities, ROM's sophomore
Foot Signal
effort is an entirely cohesive sonic outing. That they used mostly broken instruments throughout the process only reinforces that soundscape they sought to create. That they played them even with their feet as the title reveals gives us a slight visual hint at the anarchy of the sessions. Could they have used an organ that stayed in tune? Probably. But taping its keys down and pressing record in hopes to document something at all usable is part of the random fabric that makes ROM's music so incredibly transcendent. Largely recorded with
Will Loftin
at Shangri-la Studios in Atlanta, Roberto Lange and Matt Crum captured scores of live improvised sessions onto two-inch tape. The two also set up shop in apartments, studios, and storage units in Miami, Savannah, New York -- even
Jeremy Lemos
' Chicago studio to try and document the inspiration they felt lurking. The sessions were then labored over at home studios, shared over the Internet, processed and reorganized until this collection of 12 instrumental pieces emerged. Standout track "Whale Vomit" does not sound like the regurgitated mess it purports itself to be. Instead, it is the perfect combination of unwavering percussion, vibraphone flourishes, and studio-manipulation wizardry. It's the kind of stuff that makes ROM so darn exciting.
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