Drone Records

DUAL - Tocsin

Format: CD-R

Label & Cat.Number: Mystery Sea MS32

Release Year: 2006

Note: lim. & numbered & single-printed 100 / full-colour cover

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Ein langes neues Werk in sechs Teilen (aufgenommen 1995 bis 2005, sechs Indexe enthalten, aber ohne Unterbrechungen) auf DUALs Beitrag zur MysterySea-Reihe. Wieder sehr genial: organische Klangobjekte, die in langsamer wellender Bewegung sind,
tiefe drones und hell schimmernde Glas-Klangwände, kompositorisch sehr ausgefeilt...

"Tocsin is a six part journey that builds, floats, drifts and then declines when least expected, but brings together all the elements of beauty and darkness within a single feeling but never overstating. As ever Dual's subtle textured movement rises and develops within each part with measured transitions, imagine watching back a slow motion replay in slow motion, you might just notice the ever so slight changes...
Many years ago Staalplaat remarked how Dual instill ambience that is raw and unpolished, resembling more an empty factory building than a clean room in your house... well imagine if Tocsin was a dream, you'd probably feel sad & happy, immersed & suspended, cold & hot in the hours afterwards... needless to say Tocsin has depth that allows the subtle patterns of processed shimmering beauty to rise in only a way that Dual manage from just six coiled steel strings and a plank of wood.
Dual uk project whose main figure is Colin Bradley has been in existence since 1993, building a well-off repertoire of detailed guitar imaginings, painting ethereal & fervent post-industrial landscapes, making us enter into a carousel of crisp motifs sustained by metronomic pulses & breaths... Dual has already an extended back catalogue of impressive releases on various labels including DRONE, CEE RECORDINGS (Dual's own imprint !), DIRTER, EVELYN, FOURTH DIMENSION etc...
"tocsin" is their first full-length since "Keimar Sty", as part of the evergrowing series of meta-aquatic journeys on Mystery Sea...
"tocsin" as such, is a thin trembling skin sounding the environment,
passed through by myriads of microcurrents...
a waving and uneven sealand...
an innerfield of glow-organisms seeping into our grey areas...
a trickling of dark ink flowing in our veins...
an inhaled cloud of smoke...
"tocsin" makes us sink deeper...
then, loose touch...
to discover our tributaries,
& reconsider things through the layers of impurities...
learning about our uniqueness from the remanent substance itself... " [label description]