colin andrew sheffield
for tomorrow
(bet:04) 3" CDR

For Tomorrow is a new 20-minute piece, issued as a special edition by Adam Pacione's Bee Eater Recordings label.
3" CDR limited to 100 sequentially numbered copies. Packaged in heavy clear vinyl sleeve with full color insert. Layout by C. A. Sheffield. Photography by Allen W. Sheffield.



Colin Andrew Sheffield's For Tomorrow is designed to be a companion piece to “For Today,” which appears on the superb Elevator Bath compilation A Cleansing Ascension. The new work, presented in a three-inch format and available in a 100-copy run, takes little time getting started. Like a machine engine being turned on, the twenty-minute piece instantly flickers into life and then maintains a regulated intensity for the duration. Sheffield builds up a dense and slightly blurry wall of sound that's not so blurry that wave-like surges of string tones and the like can't be glimpsed at its center. The effect is simultaneously turbulent and calming, with the relentless momentum of the mass offset by the slow unfurl heard within. Twelve minutes in, the cloud mass slowly slips from view, leaving rapidly flickering tones in its wake until they too gradually decompress. Dream-like swirls dominate thereafter until they ultimately bring For Tomorrow to an end that's clearly different in tone to the industrial charge that characterizes the piece's beginning.
- Textura

Colin Andrew Sheffield runs the Elevator Bath label, and as such he released some music by Pacione, and here he shows up on the Bee Eater label. Its a companion piece to a piece he did on a compilation for his own label and consists largely from processed church organ sounds. It starts like a massive block of sound and then over the course of the twenty minutes this piece lasts, he adds more and more sound effects (from the computer I assume) and then it seems to die out slowly. But towards the end the organs returns and that ending seems a bit superfluous, but it perhaps make sense too. The ending would have been a bit too much of a cliche and now it restores the order of the piece. Nice one too.
- Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly