A Marble Calm

A Marble Calm: Surfacing

by John Kelman
December 20, 2004

Surfacing is the début album by A Marble Calm, a loose collaboration between ex-Alias Grace multi-instrumentalist Peter Chilvers and reclusive vibraphone/marimba player Jon Hart. The result, with guests including recently-reviewed woodwind player Theo Travis , No-Man vocalist Tim Bowness, ex-Alias Grace singer Sandra O'Neill and Boo Hewerdine guitarist Rob Jackson, comfortably blends a variety of aesthetics into a 75-minute program that drifts by in an airy and atmospheric fashion.

With clear debts to the ambient music of Brian Eno, the ...