Mark Templeton - Standing On A Hummingbird
[Anticipate]

Despite the just-a-little-bit-pretentious title, Mark Templeton's Standing on a Hummingbird is a delicately formulated piece of ambient electronica.

Like a dozen Buddha boxes on low volume it loops and wraps around fragile sounds and papery glitches, combining acoustics and electronics in masterful blurring of boundaries so that one isn't sure which sounds are organic and which are programmed.

Templeton's method involves the manipulation of mistakes, of the whirr of machines left in the recordings, which are later built upon and unravelled to form the backbone of pieces. Or the unintended scratches of guitar strings, brought to the forefront of an arrangement, giving depth to the collected ambience.

Templeton uses basic chord progressions as starting points to deftly create a metallic woven tapestry of micro-symphonies with him as the conductor. Unabashedly humanistic in its tendencies Templeton does not strive to hide the electronics, he merely distorts the dividing lines.

An accomplished debut, and a promising start for new label Anticipate, good things are on their way.

Track Listing:

01. Amidst Things Uncontrolled
02. Pigeon Hurt
03. Roots Growing
04. From Verse To Verse
05. Refrain From
06. Tentative Growth
07. Across From Golden (Remix)
08. Standing On A Hummingbird
09. Pattern For A pillow
10. Difficult To light