Guest members
Brian Good - soprano saxophone
Otso Pakarinen - synthesizers, guitars, percussion
Instruments - Sequentix P3, Roland JD-800, Roland SH-3a, Yamaha CS-50, Novation Nova and SuperNova, Moog Minimoog, 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 Sun Ra meets Vince Clarke meets someone unusual.
Sensitive Chaos was voted Atlanta's "Best Local Electronic Act" 2007-2008 by readers of Creative Loafing.
Emerging Transparency is the latest CD from Sensitive Chaos, a solo project of Atlanta-based producer and electronic musician Jim Combs.
Jim is joined on the CD by Brian Good on soprano saxophone, and Otso Pakarinen on guitar, synthesizers, and percussion. Andrew Lee contributed the stunning visuals for the CD's cover.
10 album with two songs in the Top 25 on New Age Reporter Spin List for April, 50 on New Age Reporter's Top 100 for March, Emerging Transparency CD selected 1 on WWSP 90 FM Ambient Aether / Space Continuum show for March 2009, 3 on WXDU's New Frontier show for March 2009, 8 on WVKR FM's Secret Music Top 20 for April, 11 on KRSC 91.3 FM's Spectral Voyages Top 20 for April, 11 on KKUP 91.5 FM's Mystic Music Top 20 for March 2009, and WDIY 88.1 FM's Galactic Travels Top 20 for March and February 2009.
"Full of lengthy, dense, eerie instrumental bliss and a few selections that sound like happy-robot dance music." - Jeff Clark, Stomp And Stammer Magazine
"A really stunning release, VERY well executed." - Darrell Burgan, StillStream.com
The CD is in current rotation on WRSU FM in New Brunswick, NJ, and WBGU 88.1FM in Bowling Green, OH.
"Emerging Transparency" played on Echoes, the daily two-hour music soundscape, distributed by Public Radio International and broadcast on 130 radio stations from Maine to California, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA,, and Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, and WDIY 88.1 FM, in Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, 93.9 FM in Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ, 93.7 FM in Fogelsville and Trexlertown.
"Fifty Light Years From Home" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, Radio Despi 107.1 FM in Barcelona, Spain, KRSC 91.3 FM in Tulsa, OK, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, YLE Radio 1 in Helsinki, Finland, KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA, WXDU 88.7 FM in Durham, NC, and WDIY 88.1 FM.
"Bazaar Behavior" played on WRAS 88.5 FM in Atlanta, GA, WDIY 88.1 FM n Allentown and Bethlehem, PA, WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, and WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI.
"Erase Yourself" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, and WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY.
"Luck Of The Draw" played on WFIT 89.5FM in Palm Bay, FL, WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI, and WVKR FM in Poughkeepsie, NY.
"Tanzen Filter" on WMUH 91.7 FM, Allentown, PA and WWSP 90 FM in Stevens Point, WI and KKUP 91.5 FM in Cupertino, CA. All tracks played on Stillstream.com.
Leak was the first album from Sensitive Chaos, and 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 Brian Good, who contributed two soprano saxophone solos to the album, and visual designer Eleanor Grosch, whose logo design graces the CD cover.
Jim hosts the monthly City Skies 09 Electronic Music event at Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA.
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.
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