Instruments - Sequentix P3, Roland JD-800, Roland SH-3a, Yamaha CS-50, Novation Nova, Emu Morpheus, Emu Proteus/1, Emu ProCussion, Korg ER-1, Korg ES-1, Kurzweil K2000, MOTU Digital Performer, Lexicon Jamman, Bent Circuit Texas Instruments Touch & Tell
Influences
Bjork, Kate Bush, Dido, Imogen Heap, Tori Amos, Stereolab, Julee Cruise, Ladytron, Sinead O'Connor, Yaz, Suzanne Vega, Binar, Joint Intelligence Committee, Poe, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, The Orb, Orbital, Human League, Peter Gabriel, Erasure, Gary Numan, William Orbit, Ulrich Schnauss, and James Figurine is my current hero.
Sounds Like
It's evolving. At the moment, it sounds like Ulrich Schnauss meets William Orbit meets James Figurine meets someone unusual.
Sensitive Chaos was voted Atlanta's "Best Local Electronic Act" 2007-2008 by readers of Creative Loafing.
Leak is the first album from Sensitive Chaos, a solo project of Atlanta-based producer and electronic musician Jim Combs. The CD was selected as a "Top Visionary Music of 2007" by KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA, and as New Age Reporter's "Top 12 Best Ambient/Spacemusic/Electronica Recordings of 2006".
Jim's collaborators on Leak were his trusty Sequentix P3 analog hardware sequencer, musician Brian Good, who contributed two soprano saxophone solos to the album, and visual designer Eleanor Grosch, whose logo design graces the CD cover.
Jim is a host of the Atlanta Songwriters Series at Kavarna in the Oakhurst area of Decatur each Saturday night, and hosts a monthly City Skies Electronic Music event at the same venue.
Sensitive Chaos music has been described as layered, dark, moody, beat-driven, beautiful, and delicate. Bill Binkelman reviewing for New Age Reporter, writes "Leak is a thoroughly enjoyable album. Combs consistently impresses with how he blends his melodic and rhythmic synths, always maintaining a coherent vision and never allowing the improvisatory nature of his music to overwhelm its sense of purpose. I highly recommend Leak for its inventiveness, its beat-happy effervescence, and its thorough lack of pretension, not to mention it’s just a flat out fun album from start to finish." Jeff Clark, writing in Stomp & Stammer Magazine, called Leak "a six-cut CD of somnambulant ambient pieces that kinda creep me out a bit, if you wanna know the truth. I suppose that means they're pretty good."
Jim is also known for his work with electronic duo TouchXtone, a 2005 Atlanta Creative Loafing Best Of Award winner (best local electronic act).
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The pleasure was all mine. I really like the way your sets just slowly clear the accumulated cobwebs out of my mind. I left Kavarna feeling refreshed & all ready to tackle today's composing challenges.
That was probably your "closest sounding to the CD" live set I've heard in a while. Loved the sequency opening and the layers of strings and leads later on. Good luck at electro-music next week!
The pleasure was all mine. I dug the show a lot. I particularly liked Pt 2 of yr Kavarna Suite, the Bb section. That's a keeper!
sorry I couldn't stay around longer but there was puppet music to write -a creepy little ditty when the ice rolls out & smothers the pond for winter. (OK only slightly creepy since it's a kids show & about the cycle of life but still...)
I'm still looking forward to playing with you again in Sept.
Thanks for a wonderful and eye opening performance to close the Saturday afternoon session of City Skies 08 Electronic Music Festival. You and your musical guests truly demonstrated what a top shelf improvised performance sounds like. Magic!
