Waves 3, by Curd Duca

Waves 3

by Curd Duca

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1.	dome 00:39	buy track
2.	glass acc 00:26	buy track
3.	bläser 00:41	buy track
4.	zither 00:48	buy track
5.	audiolab 00:20	buy track
6.	500 GRM 00:38	buy track
7.	ziegenmelker 00:30	buy track
8.	faust 01:00	buy track
9.	karelia suite 00:39	buy track
10.	silver bowl (bohlen/pierce) 04:10	buy track
11.	gong gran 00:56	buy track
12.	clickey 00:57	buy track
13.	loop voix gran 00:59	buy track
14.	stadtpfarrkirche 02:02	buy track
15.	liquid plate (17-TET) 00:42	buy track
16.	gilbert plasma 00:59	buy track
17.	jeph 01:26	buy track
18.	singing stone k-board (pythagorean) 01:50	buy track
19.	underground records 00:46	buy track
20.	morgenmelodie 01:17	buy track
21.	var soundscapes 00:32	buy track
22.	arctic winds 00:42	buy track
23.	blue 01:55	buy track
24.	happy metal 00:38	buy track
25.	travelizer 2 00:33	buy track
26.	one man crowd 01:05	buy track
27.	v_room 2 01:10	buy track
28.	kontour 02:20	buy track
29.	zymbol 03:14	buy track

about

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. - John Twells

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released October 28, 2022

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Curd Duca Vienna, Austria

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discography

Waves 1-3

Dec 2022
Waves 3

Oct 2022
Waves 2

Nov 2021
Waves 1

Nov 2020

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