Jonathan Coleclough & Tim Hill
Beech For John And Miho
Seal Pool Records

Available through the Helen Scarsdale Agency: $16.00

“The motion of light on water.” Now, there’s an apt metaphor to the subtle and sublime actions of a perfectly rendered drone; and that’s exactly how the perenially excellent British sound-sculptor Jonathan Coleclough describes his work. Originally commissioned for a private wedding compilation that featued Joe Weismann, If Thousands, Jliat, and Space Machine, Coleclough’s 2003 collaboration with saxophonist Tim Hill entitled Beech For John And Miho is an album that typifies this pithy statement. Very little actually happens within the full 74 minutes of the album; there is but one sound of a conglomeration from tightly vibrating digital pixels, time-stretched sound fields, and synthetic reverberations. In turn, there is a stately procession from the harmonic undercurrents, that ebb and flow with all of the majesties of the oceans. One could assume that Coleclough has appropriated something that Tim Hill played on the saxophone. I must admit that I have absolutely no patience for the saxophone and was a bit put off by Coleclough’s choice of collaborator. Fortunately, Coleclough has proven me wrong and conjured an impressive album.