Four Tet and Tortoise meet Aphex Twin and Brian Eno in So

Percussion's breakout indie-electronica project, Amid the

Noise. Released alongside So Percussion's US tour with (Bjork

collaborators) Matmos last October, this disc pushes the

group into the limelight as a one-of-a-kind band of 4

drummers.

Critics raved about their first two discs; acclaimed albums of

rigorous music by modern master Steve Reich and even

more modern masters David Lang and Evan Ziporyn. In that

vein, their newest CD/DVD Amid the Noise began as an afterhours

project. Eager to expand their palette, the members of

So experimented with glockenspiel, toy piano, vibraphones,

bowed marimba, melodica, tuned and prepared pipes, metals,

a wayward ethernet port, and all kinds of sound

programming.The resulting idiosyncratic tone explorations

were synchronised to Jenise Treuting's haunting films of street

scenes in Manhattan and Tokyo.