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Following excursions into the liminal spaces between ambient, jazz and minimalist percussive sonics via the self released Balafon Sketches and subsequent Elevations album on Music From Memory; Contours latest offering, Perc EP sees the producer and percussionist deliver a series of club ready percussion work-outs.

Perc EP came out of the same period in which Elevations was being recorded, offering an outlet for the more overtly club focused impulses still being incubated. The EP was built through a period of sampling and resequencing live captured percussion, lending the tracks a particular quality that merges organic and sequenced temperaments.

Eschewing straight up 4/4 frameworks, Perc EP takes on a broken rhythmic framework with nods to Detroit house, dub techno and UK club permeations. The result is a hypnotic rhythmic trip through evolving synthetic textures, and a collection of club indebted tracks formed from initial explorations into rhythmic interaction.

Early support from Gilles Peterson, Steve Barker (On The Wire), Volcov, Marshmello, Kirk Barley/ Church Andrews.


All tracks composed, performed and produced by Tom Burford.

Tom Burford: Production, Nord Lead 2, Waldorf Micro Q, Roland Handsonic, Moog Grandmother, Behringer Poly D, Meris Polymoon, Udu.

Mastering by Miles Whittaker
Artwork and sleeve design by Kitty Hopking

TRACK LISTING

A1. Finding Space
A2. Glow
B1. Sterile Light
B2. Joining the Dots