Blog
Wire Review Ultra Tonal
Published 23 August 2010 by JT


Been a busy bee in the studio. The summer has been good. Yesterday I bought my copy of The Wire from sister ray record store in soho to see a great review of Ultra Tonal.
Jo

London based electronic composer Jo Thomas offers her new EP , Ultra Tonal as a free download via her website. Each of the three tracks, "Tula", "Ultra" and "Shine", feels like its energies are scrambling to break from the restraints that Thomas has put upon them. " Ultra" is especially impressive as her hyperactive bleeps keep getting dragged towards stasis, jamming the music spinning inside disorientating deja vu from which it can't escape. The stand out moment in "Shine" sees Thomas busy material abruptly fall through a structural trapdoor , as she opens a new space.

Phillip Clarke
The Wire
pg.69 September 2010