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  • Artist(s): Brian Eno
  • Summary: The second solo release for the Three Trapped Tigers pianist is a collaboration with Brian Eno, who suggested they use a device called the Moog Piano Bar to translate piano notes into MIDI sounds.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. 90
    While Finding Shore certainly isn’t the most accessible of albums, it’s one that’s likely to stay with its listeners long after the dull rumble of its closing moments have faded in to nothing.
  2. Dec 8, 2017
    83
    If the actual product doesn’t always measure up to that quirky ingenuity--or if it is, on the whole, just a touch too chamber-music stately to reach the mind-expanding heights of Eno’s ’70s and ’80s team-ups with Robert Fripp, Cluster, Harold Budd, et al.--Finding Shore still contains moments that are plenty interesting, even downright beautiful. In those, it doesn’t really matter how they were created.
  3. Jan 18, 2018
    80
    All of the transitions are perfectly timed, and the whole is a narrative through which minute but thrilling discoveries become regular events as each listen exposes them. This may not be the game changing statement The Ship was almost two years ago, but it demonstrates a fruitful inter-generational relationship in the making.
  4. Dec 7, 2017
    70
    Like Ryuichi Sakamoto's async, Finding Shore seems to find magic in everyday objects and scenes.
  5. Uncut
    Dec 5, 2017
    60
    The result is an impressionistic and intriguing set of instrumentals that draw on an eclectic set of influences from the obvious (Satie and Glass) to the surprising (gamelan and Robert Miles). [Jan 2018, p.24]
  6. 60
    Inspired by a shared affinity for the Suffolk landscape, these are mostly small, pastoral ambient pieces which drift, as the title suggests, over the shifting coastal flatlan.
  7. Jan 5, 2018
    60
    If you sometimes miss Tigers’ unruly improv-tumult, the pay-off is an album of poised beauty with its own pocket-universe logic, exemplified by the softly searching communion of synthetic/organic sounds on Marsh Chorus.

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  1. Sep 13, 2018
    7
    An enjoyable excursion; more upfront and melodic than the floating ambient atmospheric works Harold Budd made with Brian Eno. Makes me wantAn enjoyable excursion; more upfront and melodic than the floating ambient atmospheric works Harold Budd made with Brian Eno. Makes me want to know more about this Rogerson guy. Expand