Silfurberg
by Modified Toy Orchestra
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Streaming + DownloadIncludes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Purchasable with gift card
£8 GBP
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Ltd Ed All-Red Polycarbonate CD in bespoke retro-rom caddy casing
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumRare, all-red polycarbonate CD in a vintage, original 1980s CD-Rom Caddy Case, housed in a bespoke, die-cut gloss-laminate O-card sleeve + 12 page booklet, sealed in a stickered black mylar bag. Limited to just 200 copies worldwide only.
SOLD OUT - Further copies available at the MTO Bandcamp Store:
modifiedtoyorchestra.bandcamp.com/album/silfurberg
Or at other online / national retailers:
linktr.ee/silfurberg
Includes unlimited streaming of Silfurberg via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Sold Out
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And Yet It Moves
04:36
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World Line
06:13
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We Take It Into Space
05:49
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Killer Electrons
04:52
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Pathloss
03:31
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Silfurberg
06:16
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Into The Bulk
03:52
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about
Modified Toy Orchestra - Silfurberg.
(BITP028DL - Bit-Phalanx Music)
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With their third full-length release 'Silfurberg', MTO continue their exploration of modified toys. Focusing on the untapped potential of small toy Casio keyboards, the new project takes them into darker territory than previous releases 'Toygopop' and 'Plastic Planet' - embarking on a transcendental voyage outwards from the first stellar navigation aide (the Viking sunstone known as "Silfurberg") through empty cosmological vistas and ultimately journeying ever outwards into the sublime, higher dimensional 'Bulk'.
From Gustav Holst to modern electronic 'Space Concept' artists like Matsuo Ohno, Vangelis and Guilano Sorgini, composers have attempted to explore the cosmos with sound and create listening experiences which guide us off-world into vast, alien territories. With Silfurberg, the group leave behind the triumphal brass fanfares and discover ominous, brooding textures, dissonant string clusters and glitching/pulsating rhythms which conjure the claustrophobia of outer space - contrasting the longing to feel the Earth's gravity, with moments of glittering, tranquil calm.
With the new toys forging a more minimalist approach, revealing deeper untapped potential, curiosity for the unknown and the unheard remains a fundamental motivation and inspiration for MTO.
- Fliss Kitson, August 2022.
(BITP028DL - Bit-Phalanx Music)
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With their third full-length release 'Silfurberg', MTO continue their exploration of modified toys. Focusing on the untapped potential of small toy Casio keyboards, the new project takes them into darker territory than previous releases 'Toygopop' and 'Plastic Planet' - embarking on a transcendental voyage outwards from the first stellar navigation aide (the Viking sunstone known as "Silfurberg") through empty cosmological vistas and ultimately journeying ever outwards into the sublime, higher dimensional 'Bulk'.
From Gustav Holst to modern electronic 'Space Concept' artists like Matsuo Ohno, Vangelis and Guilano Sorgini, composers have attempted to explore the cosmos with sound and create listening experiences which guide us off-world into vast, alien territories. With Silfurberg, the group leave behind the triumphal brass fanfares and discover ominous, brooding textures, dissonant string clusters and glitching/pulsating rhythms which conjure the claustrophobia of outer space - contrasting the longing to feel the Earth's gravity, with moments of glittering, tranquil calm.
With the new toys forging a more minimalist approach, revealing deeper untapped potential, curiosity for the unknown and the unheard remains a fundamental motivation and inspiration for MTO.
- Fliss Kitson, August 2022.
credits
released October 21, 2022
Written, Produced & Performed by Modified Toy Orchestra.
(MTO are: Brian Duffy, Darren Joyce and Laurence Hunt)
Instruments used & modified:
Casio SK-1, SK-5, SK-8, VL1, SA-1, SA-5, VA-10,
Yamaha VSS30.
Mixed & Mastered by MTO.
Photographs by Darren Joyce.
Package Design & Artwork Layout by Léigh @ Bit-Phalanx.
Written, Produced & Performed by Modified Toy Orchestra.
(MTO are: Brian Duffy, Darren Joyce and Laurence Hunt)
Instruments used & modified:
Casio SK-1, SK-5, SK-8, VL1, SA-1, SA-5, VA-10,
Yamaha VSS30.
Mixed & Mastered by MTO.
Photographs by Darren Joyce.
Package Design & Artwork Layout by Léigh @ Bit-Phalanx.
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Bit-Phalanx Music Greater London, UK
Bit-Phalanx Music is a label & collective of recording & performing artists across the entire Electronic music spectrum, based in London.
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