As usually happened with all previous Pholde works, the two pieces on "Aperture of the Internal Surface" were produced and recorded by Alan in single sessions without any overdub, using only his sound-sculptures as source material aided by reverb and some equalization.

Clocking at over thirty minutes, the title track is a marvelous example of Pholde's trademark ambiences and it can be ideally divided in five movements: in each of them a wall of sound is built and becomes quite loud at times, then the crescendo stops and the music turns quiet and sparse before building up tension and explodind again in a spellbinding stainless steel symphony.

Bloor's passion for hermetic titles is renewed in "Manifested By the Occurrence", the second and conclusive track on the album. Once again, this is metal reverberation at its best where rich and harmonic drones resonates in a powerful manifestation of tonal abstractions, clanging collisions and morphing condensations.

Pholde is the dark ambient project of sound artist Alan Bloor who is also known for his extreme noise music project called Knurl. Bloor, originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada, was involved in several bands in the early 80's, including a Hardcore punk band called Binge of Violence. After the band's breakup, he pursued a career as a solo musician, studying jazz bass, as well as classical and flamenco guitar. In the late '80s he began performing noise backgrounds at poetry readings in which he experimented with his bass guitar by placing metal objects on the strings to produce the sounds.

Since that time, Bloor has delved heavily into experimentation with found objects as sound sources. He has also supplied musical scores for performers Andrew Hammerson (ex DV-8) from the U.K. and Jake Brown, Montreal. Bloor has performed at festivals with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore and Alan Licht, and has toured the eastern United States and Japan. While Knurl unleashes harsh noise performances and side-project Pyrox creates intense electronic drones, Pholde creates dark ambient soundscapes by the bowing and scraping of self-created metal sound-sculptures with hand files, smooth and threaded metal rods, angle iron and blocks of steel to produce atmospheric, haunting soundscapes. Alan Bloor's music was released on many labels worldwide, including Alien8 Recordings, Gears of Sand, Mystery Sea, RRRecords, Taâlem and Troniks.

Limited edition release of only 100 copies!

   Packaging: Pro-CDR in resealable sleeve with pro-printed cardboard insert
   Release Date: April 2007
   Running Time: 45:48