Curd Duca - Waves 1

Magazine

£31.05

Weight: 400g

Genre: Electronic
Format: LP+CD BOX
Catalogue No.: MAGAZINEWAVES1
B/C 4250101416170
Release Date: 20th November 2020

180g Vinyl / Inlay / Comes in Trifold sleeve

Waves 1 is the rst release of Curd Duca since the legendary Elevator series (1998-2000). Waves is an album trilogy. Waves 2 and 3 will be released on Magazine in 2021.

If we think of Curd Duca’s Waves in terms of sound, rather than in terms of form, each track on Waves is actually like the large, illuminated, richly decorated initial letter that introduces the narrative of so many medieval manuscripts. It is as if Duca was collecting extraordinary letters, opening up an alphabet of sounds, and developing a musical phonetics between adjacent terms. From gong to gone; bell to bells minus drone; dome to father.

The real beauty of Curd Duca’s cycle lies in the fact that it opens up differently from so many perspectives. That we can understand it as a collection of treasures, as a commentary on our acoustic environment, as an attempt to dissect the world and stylize its parts. Much like a printer's typesetting box, Duca proposes an inventory of everything that sounds.
Some of the pieces are exaggerations. Some allusions. Others abstractions, parodies, and trans gurations. It is often not even clear whether the music is based on a recording or a synthetic sound. Is the nightjar real or is it a synthetic imitation? Did Duca really use brass and zither sounds or simulate them on the computer? The hermaphroditic nature between reality and arti ciality is a central aspect of Duca’s sound world.

There is only one thing you must not do with this music: trivialize it or underestimate it. With Waves, Duca is exploring the very essence of sound, and its possible meanings and contradictions.

Tracklisting
1 - 1 Curd Duca gong 00:00:34
1 - 2 Curd Duca satori 00:00:55
1 - 3 Curd Duca california 00:00:59
1 - 4 Curd Duca babel 00:01:48
1 - 5 Curd Duca oui 00:03:49
1 - 6 Curd Duca formantor 00:01:31
1 - 7 Curd Duca avant org 00:02:18
1 - 8 Curd Duca berg 00:00:07
1 - 9 Curd Duca touch 00:01:02
1 - 10 Curd Duca supercussion 00:00:34
1 - 11 Curd Duca DX7 angel 00:01:45
1 - 12 Curd Duca cassette 00:00:29
1 - 13 Curd Duca healing 00:01:02
1 - 14 Curd Duca scr op42 00:00:59
1 - 15 Curd Duca git L9 00:01:55
1 - 16 Curd Duca hedges a 00:00:46
1 - 17 Curd Duca hedges b 00:01:10
1 - 18 Curd Duca karunesh 00:00:46
1 - 19 Curd Duca cow 00:01:03
1 - 20 Curd Duca marienbad 00:01:32
1 - 21 Curd Duca click & schwell 00:00:33
1 - 22 Curd Duca sonic island 00:02:34
1 - 23 Curd Duca bird snap 00:00:09
1 - 24 Curd Duca engelschor lo 00:00:45
1 - 25 Curd Duca marina 00:01:40
1 - 26 Curd Duca mingus 00:02:46
1 - 27 Curd Duca liquid 00:00:51
1 - 28 Curd Duca gone 00:01:13