sonicbrat: HI.A.TUS [2007 | CD]

Released 2007 | Asylum Sound | CD
GENRE: Ambient | Experimental | Live Electronics

Track Listing:

The Lacuna Medley
Hiatus Lullaby
So We Listened to the Crisis
Synaesthesia
8 bit Pathology
The Photocopy Man
Labefactions
In Between and Gaping
Solitude
Epilogue: Cacophony
Eudaemonia

No. of tracks: 11
Total Time: 71:14

Album Artwork: The Asylum
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Reviews:

• “… Singaporean sound designer Darren Ng has something else in mind. The lush piano, suspended moments and discreet digital tweaking of the decay on “The Lacuna Medley” suggests a bleached-out form of exotica. It’s a mood that informs the rest of this project, which transforms the pauses of the day into a series of translucent dreams, made up of filmy keyboards, overlaid washes and floating structures. Martin Denny would be proud.” Electronica Reviewed by Ken Hollings, WIRE (UK), issue 279, May 2007.

• “新加坡Asylum Soundlab廠牌的出品，帶來是SonicBrat這名星州電音製作人的HI.A.TUS專輯。看他的Blog，得悉他是一名電子合成器收藏家。但他打造出的電音樂章，卻是如斯的美不勝收，除了一首首精巧別緻的IDM樂曲外，The Lacuna Medley、Hiatus Lullaby、Eudaemonia等多首以Erik Satie式鋼琴作主導的曲目，更極盡發思古幽情。” HOMPY (Hong Kong) album review, SonicBrat: HI.A.TUS (album) ~Translated Site~Also available @:

Also Available @:

節點文化Node Culture – Taiwan
White Noise Record – Hong Kong

Project Write-up:

Hi.a.tus |hi’at?s|
noun ( pl. -tus.es ) [usu. in sing. ]
a pause or gap in a sequence, series, or process

Every now and then, we fall in and out of reality. The parallel of two worlds – first being the world we exist in; the second being the world we created for ourselves. Whether it’s socially created or fabricated in our own mind, the relationship between the real and the created is one that keeps us sane. This has occurred to me as a gap in time, a pause in our existence. A paradox that is essential to our survival. The truth aside, HI.A.TUS is an audio diary of my experiences in these pauses. Perhaps there were times when we existed in similar hiatus…

I hope this project may give you a rewarding experience for that will be most gratifying for me.

Available @ The Asylum 22 Ann Siang Road Singapore 069702
THE ASYLUM

Produced by our very own Asylum Sounds, HI.A.TUS is our very first release by local sound designer and music composer, Darren Ng, who also goes by the moniker Sonic Brat. HI.A.TUS will take you on a softly melodic journey through instrumental and reflective soundscapes.

Other Reviews:
HOMPY(Hong Kong) album review, SonicBrat: HI.A.TUS (album) ~Translated Site~
Chinese Review In Macau, China