Origamibiro Vol.2
If you missed Tom’s latest installment then click below…
Origamibiro is the pseudonym of musician and producer, Thomas Hill. Originally from Beckenham in Kent, Tom moved to Nottingham in 2000 where he still lives, writing music and producing soundtracks for film and animations.
Formerly one half of the electronica duo, Wauvenfold with Noel Murphy (aka Visual Display Unit / Bury & Disinter) Tom released material on Wichita Records and produced other works under his old solo alias – Penfold Plum (it is the name Penfold that gave birth to the title ‘Origami-Biro’).
His debut with Expanding Records, ‘Cracked Mirrors and Stopped Clocks’, saw Tom shift away from his beat driven method of synthetic 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.
Track List:
Lars Horntveth: Pooka
Part Timer: Four Timer (Mix 2)
The Number: Multitude
Opsvik & Jennings: ??? (don’t know! track 3 on their ‘Commuter Anthems’ album I think!)
Sufjan Stevens: Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind…
Johann Johannsson: “Ef Ég Hefði Aldrei…”
Susumu Yokota: Love Bird
dntl: Fear of Corners
Michael Andrews: Liquid Spear Waltz
Murcof: Mir
The Books: Lemon of Pink
Yonlu: Waterfall
