The Sugar Factory (album)

Touch the Sound is a documentary film by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer [de] about profoundly deaf Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie and how she hears with her body.

"[3][4] Martin Longley writing at All About Jazz called the album "a sonic pleasure" and said that Frith and Glennie are "beautifully recorded in the cathedral space of [the] disused sugar factory".

[2] In a review in The Squid's Ear, Kurt Gottschalk called the album "a beautiful session, full of the sense of the room they recorded it in, abstract and lush".

[4] He said that Frith's "tasteful looping, [...] building of soundscapes and his searing solos sound great in the big space", and that Glennie "walks a fine balance between challenge and response".

She is "noisier" here than usual, but Jurek added that the "cacophony" the pair create is "compelling", at times "blisslike", and that "every sound that emerges becomes a part of the bigger body of the work".