’Origamibiro’s debut album is an absolutely beautiful journey through subtle, delicate and, above all, gloriously introspective music.’
www.smallfish.co.uk
'Straddling the middle ground somewhere between electronic and acoustic, “Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks†has a high level of intimacy and an organic quality that is contrasted and often mixed with digitally created tones and broken electronic sounds. At times the contrast is distinct but at others they compliment each other beautifully, the
warmth and fragility of the guitar melodies amplified by just the right
amount of discrete glitchy electronic effects.’
Paul Lloyd (www.igloomag.com)
’Gone are the more angular beat contortions of Wauvenfold, Hill instead favouring a sound centred on his nylon-strung acoustic guitar and some finely spun, computer-aided audio treatments... A thoroughly beautiful listen which you’d do well to investigate without delay.’
www.boomkat.com
’This is a truly beautiful blend of the glitchy electronic soundscapes of the likes of fennesz with some stunning spanish and classical acoustic guitar over the top, at times the album has that kind of desert feeling of ry cooders paris texas soundtrack, a really really beautiful meeting of electronic trickery and live acoustic sounds.’
www.roadrecs.com
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PERFORMANCE:
Origami Biro is currently performing live with video artist, Jim Boxall ( The Joy of Box ) and double bassist Andy Tytherleigh of Brazilica , The Ben Martin Quartet and Shmoov. Check out the video of us in action in the 'band members' section on the left.
Origami Biro & The Joy Of Box's live show comprises a variety of mediums and methods. All the music is performed live on stage and manipulated using looper pedals and effects. Samples of interlacing classical guitar part harmonies and rhythmic textures (such as - pencils being sharpened, paper being torn and beats tapped out on boxes and wood) are captured by spy cameras attatched to microphones that Jim feeds to projectors that screen the images behind us.
The result is a dynamic relationship between visual and auditory. The marriage of the two mediums presents itself in a variety of different ways; whether it's Jim flicking through the pages of a book in time to the music using an infra red camera to capture the images, or the sounds from Tom's guitar triggering clips of a film, both are integral elements that form an experience unique to each individual.
Check out the new music Video by The Joy of Box for the track 'Dissect Ephemeral' taken from the album 'Cracked Mirrors & Stopped Clocks' over there on the left of this page.
2007 Album Press Release:
Origamibiro is Tom Hill. Originally from Beckenham in Kent, Tom moved to Nottingham in 2000 where he still lives.
Formerly one half of acclaimed electronica duo, Wauvenfold, Tom has released material on Wichita Records and performed a number of live shows under his solo alias - Penfold Plum.
His debut with Expanding Records, ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, sees Tom shift away from his often kooky, beat driven method of melodic sound-design to sculpt an album of interlacing classical guitar-part harmonies and textural samples - including the creaks of chairs and all the knocks, scrapes, bumps and other by-products that come with playing a wooden instrument.
The result is an intimate and delicate, broken, organic sound that is both hauntingly vivid and atmospheric, whilst managing to retain some of those glitchy electronic characteristics that earned Wauvenfold its reputation among the likes of Björk, Super Furry Animals and John Peel himself.
Click here to read a recent interview with yours truly.
my other musical ventures: Wauvenfold Penfold Plum