Substatic

Substatic is the fourth solo album by New Zealand composer Peter Jefferies, released on September 29, 1998 through Emperor Jones. One of his most musically ambitious and emotionally complex efforts, it marks Jefferies' return to the completely instrumental format he had previously explored on his 1987 album At Swim 2 Birds.[1]

Substatic
Studio album by
Peter Jefferies
ReleasedSeptember 29, 1998
GenrePost-rock
Length40:00
LabelEmperor Jones
ProducerMichael Hill
Peter Jefferies chronology
Elevator Madness
(1996)		 Substatic
(1998)		 Closed Circuit
(2001)

Composition

Substatic is known to be one of Jefferies' most experimental and musically adventurous recordings. The album comprises five pieces of music, including a lengthy seventeen-minute suite titled "Three Movements". The compositions are based around repetitious rhythms created by Jefferies' pianodrum, a combination of a keyboard and the snare and bass drum sections of a drum set, and are partially improvised.[2]

The use of sampling is prominently used as part of the composition of Substatic. The piece "Index" includes sampled vocals of Jean Smith of Mecca Normal, taken from a 1995 live performance.[3] "Damage" features audience noise which was recorded by Bruce Russell during a live performance. A digeridoo played by Alicia Aaparros Duran can be heard on the album's final track, "Three Movements".[4]

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[3]

Joe Garden of The A.V. Club was also enthusiastic in his review of the album, saying that the music covers "a wide breadth of emotions" and is "highly charged, mostly toward the negative end of the emotional spectrum."[5] Ned Raggett of allmusic gave it three out of five stars and called it a "striking, varied album" with "intentionally and beautifully murky production."[3]

Track listing

All music is composed by Peter Jefferies, except "Three Movements" co-written by Michael Hill and Anita Galitis-Anker.

No.TitleLength
1."Index"7:36
2."Signal"6:37
3."Damage"5:50
4."Kitty Loop"3:51
5."Three Movements"16:06

Personnel
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References
  1. "Peter Jefferies: Substatic". Emperor Jones. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
  2. "Electricity: Peter Jefferies on Peter Jefferies". reocities.com. February 1998. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
  3. Raggett, Ned. "Substatic". Allmusic. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
  4. Substatic (booklet). Peter Jefferies. Austin, Texas: Emperor Jones. 1998.CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. Garden, Joe (March 29, 2002). "Peter Jefferies: Substatic". The A.V. Club. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
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