Finding Shore

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Finding Shore
File:Finding Shore.jpg
Studio album by
Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno
Released8 December 2017 (2017-12-08)
StudioOpal (London)[1]
Length48:52
LabelDead Oceans
Tom Rogerson chronology
Cable Street Shorts
(2010) 		Finding Shore
(2017) 		Retreat to Bliss
(2022)
Brian Eno chronology
Reflection
(2017) 		Finding Shore
(2017) 		Mixing Colours
(2020)

Finding Shore is a collaborative studio album by Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno. It was released on 8 December 2017 through Dead Oceans.[2] It received generally favorable reviews from critics.[3]

Background

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Tom Rogerson is an English pianist and the founder of Three Trapped Tigers.[4] He met Brian Eno by chance outside the toilet at a show.[5] They bonded over their roots in Suffolk.[6] For Finding Shore, they used Piano Bar, a Moog gear designed to transform the piano's notes into MIDI signals that Eno would then manipulate.[7]

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStarStarHalf starFile:Star empty.svg[8]
The A.V. ClubB+[9]
Drowned in Sound6/10[10]
Exclaim!8/10[11]
The Line of Best Fit9/10[12]
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The ObserverStarStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svg[14]
Pitchfork8.0/10[15]
Record CollectorStarStarStarFile:Star empty.svgFile:Star empty.svg[16]
Uncut6/10[17]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Finding Shore received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 74 out of 100 from 12 critic scores.[3]

Robert Ham of Pitchfork described the album as "a record that beautifully smears together modern classical, ambient, and jazz."[15] He added, "Between their respective spotlight turns, both musicians are on equal footing, challenging and surprising one another, and their listeners, with music that feels alive and wondrous."[15] Dave Beech of The Line of Best Fit commented that "while Finding Shore certainly isn't the most accessible of albums, it's one that's likely to stay with its listeners long after the dull rumble of its closing moments have faded in to nothing."[12] Kevin Harley of Record Collector stated, "With Eno encouraging his co-traveller to open up and experiment, the result is an album of finely balanced extremes: transporting and becalmed, exploratory and soothing."[16]

Track listing

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Finding Shore track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Idea of Order at Kyson Point"3:30
2."Motion in Field"3:46
3."On-ness"3:52
4."March Away"2:50
5."Eastern Stack"2:45
6."Minor Rift"2:10
7."The Gabbard"3:01
8."Red Slip"1:51
9."Quoit Blue"4:41
10."Marsh Chorus"6:41
11."An Iken Loop"3:04
12."Chain Home"5:21
13."Rest"5:21
Total length:48:52

Personnel

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Credits adapted from liner notes.[8][1]

  • Tom Rogerson – notes
  • Brian Eno – sounds, recording
  • Mattia Sartori – additional engineering
  • Matt Colton – mastering
  • Miles Johnson – artwork
  • Matthew Parri Thomas – photography

References

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  13. ^ A sprinkling of more angular, dissonant tracks, like the clanging Eastern Stack, may sail a little too close to his soi-disant "jazz that nobody asked for" for some tastes. [Jan 2018, p.96]
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  17. ^ The result is an impressionistic and intriguing set of instrumentals that draw on an eclectic set of influences from the obvious (Satie and Glass) to the surprising (gamelan and Robert Miles). [Jan 2018, p.24]

Further reading

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