Album Notes

Pholde is a sound project created by Alan Bloor that began in 2000. It involves producing haunting, dark drones from metal of different tensile strengths. Alan Bloor was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario and began experimenting with sound in the mid '80's,

working with poetry performers in Detroit, Mich., and contributing to dance-performance soundtracks throughout the '80's and '90's.

In 1988, Alan moved to Montreal and started a sound project called Knurl. Since then, he has performed at festivals with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore and Alan Licht, and has toured the eastern United States and Japan.

Pholde performs mainly in the Toronto area at the Ambient Ping music series (www.theambientping.com) but bookings for performances and other musical projects are always welcome.

This release is sold as a cdr but has a very nice deep, rich sound and is nicely packaged.

This release has two tracks.
The first track is 42:30 and was taken from a set of rehearsals I was doing for a show at the Hacienda club in Toronto as part of the Ambient Ping music series.
(www.theambientping.com)
The piece is a dark, ambient , slowmoving soundscape at first but builds into earth-shattering crescendos through-out.
The second piece is just over 22 mins. in length and was taken from of the same rehearsals.
Both pieces have waves of metallic suspense which build and diminish through-out.