Label: Touch - Tone 57

Coilの最初期メンバーとしても有名なStephen Thrower、80年代初頭アクティブに動いたパンクバンドFive Or Sixやサイケデリック・グループShock Headed Petersに参加したDavid KnightによるエレクトロニクスをベースとするデュオユニットUnicaZürn。Touch作品でよく聞かれるサウンドスケープもの、フィールドレコーディングものとは色が異なる、結構ムチャクチャな要素も突っ込んでいるアブストラクトな電子音。



UnicaZürn build their long, ceaselessly evolving musical compositions through a process of improvisation followed by careful editing and processing. Their music, drawn from subconscious associations while recording, is frequently aquatic or oceanic in overall mood and texture. Knight has spent most of his life living on the banks of the Thames while Thrower resides on the East Sussex coast, and their musical flights of imagination tend toward rolling river dynamics and the open seas of synthesised sound.

For UnicaZürn, tidal imagery, oceanic forms and the slow rhythms of coastal water are a recurring structural presence, with strong associations of rootlessness, of being far away from home, a stranger in a strange land. The inability of human lungs to breathe water endows rivers and seas with a special poetics: a boundary between two different but inter-related states. On the one hand, solidity, clarity, definition; on the other, fluidity, uncertainty, dissolution. The sense of a threshold between opposites gives rise to an elusive otherness, suggesting a portal through which the everyday world can be escaped. Death under the water, the survivors of a lost kingdom clinging to the rocks of an unfamiliar island, a coastal boat ride into deepest abstraction, a deserted beach expressing a world outside reality.