Curd Duca - Waves 3

Magazine

£25.11

Format: LP+CD
Catalogue No.: MAGAZINEWAVES3
Barcode: 4250101416194
Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Genre: Electronic/Abstract/Experimental

Magazine is glad to announce the album Waves 3 by Curd Duca,   the third and last part of the trilogy Waves:

Austrian electronic composer Curd Duca is widely known for his 1990es series of critically acclaimed easy listening 1-5 (Normal) and elevator 1-3 (Mille Plateaux).

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After a long break from the studio, Duca has issued part 1 of the Waves series in late 2020 on Magazine. This was in fact his first album in 20 years. The Waves recordings pick up the thread of his 90s work and open up a new chapter. Again, everything is shifting constantly and all tracks are quite different (soft, rough, melodic, abstract ... ), but complement each other in a surprisingly coherent way to form an idiosyncratic universe.

While other experimental artists can sound as if they're attempting to lift lead weights over their heads, Duca is content flicking feathers into their faces. After his impressive 1990s/00s run on Normal and Mille Plateaux, Curd Duca had disappeared for 20 years before emerging from the aether last year.

The albums of the new "Waves" Trilogy represent a flawless examination of sound and texture. The Vienna-based producer still straddles high and low culture, but approaches his sonics with a more historically aware ear. So plain and resonant gong recordings are placed next to pop music loops and DSP-fractured cut-ups, and icy electronic jams nudge up against cassette warped instrumental sketches.

Waves 3 is a continuation and culmination of the series. In the final chapter, we’re drawn in with church bells on dome, but quickly transported to another era entirely with the crackly bläser and absurd zither, a tongue-in-cheek plunderphonic experiment assembled from zither samples. Duca follows this evocative run of tracks with a machine-gun blast of experimental sound, from the percussive 500 GRM to the ferric ASMR birdsong of ziegenmelker.

This is Duca at his most uncompromising, grabbing central European culture and dragging it through his array of processes. Playing the album from beginning to end opens up a weightless cut-and-paste mixtape, stitched together with expert foresight and a knowing wink to camera.

Like the best psychedelic experiences, memories are triggered and turned inside-out, and knowledge is allowed to blossom. Curd Duca has been refining his process for three decades now, and few artists have quite the same ability to challenge, provoke, and inspire.

Tracklisting
A1 Curd Duca dome 00:00:39
A2 Curd Duca glass acc 00:00:26
A3 Curd Duca bläser 00:00:42
A4 Curd Duca zither 00:00:48
A5 Curd Duca audiolab 00:00:20
A6 Curd Duca 500 GRM 00:00:38
A7 Curd Duca ziegenmelker 00:00:30
A8 Curd Duca faust 00:01:01
A9 Curd Duca karelia suite 00:00:39
A10 Curd Duca silver bowl (bohlen/pierce) 00:04:10
A11 Curd Duca gong gran 00:00:56
A12 Curd Duca clickey 00:00:57
A13 Curd Duca loop voix gran 00:00:59
A14 Curd Duca stadtpfarrkirche 00:02:02
A15 Curd Duca liquid plate (17-TET) 00:00:41
A16 Curd Duca gilbert plasma 00:00:59
B1 Curd Duca jeph 00:01:26
B2 Curd Duca singing stone k-board (pythagorean) 00:01:50
B3 Curd Duca underground records 00:00:46
B4 Curd Duca morgenmelodie 00:01:17
B5 Curd Duca var soundscapes 00:00:32
B6 Curd Duca arctic winds 00:00:42
B7 Curd Duca blue 00:01:55
B8 Curd Duca happy metal 00:00:38
B9 Curd Duca travelizer 2 00:00:33
B10 Curd Duca one man crowd 00:01:05
B11 Curd Duca v_room 2 00:01:10
B12 Curd Duca kontour 00:02:20
B13 Curd Duca zymbol 00:03:15