Label: Magazine

Vol.1には巨大なカードボード・スリップケースが付属、LP + CDのセット作!!90年代末にMille Plateauxから発表した3部作[Elevator]で知られるグリッチ音楽のイノベーターの一人Curd Duca。20年振りにソロ活動を再開、それに合わせスタートした新たな3部作[Waves]を入荷。本作は2020年に発表されたVol.1。フィールドレコーディング、ゴングやカウベル、ボウル等のアコースティック素材、シンセ、ヨレヨレのカセットテープ音源、人の声など大量の音素材を使い、数秒から2、3分程のミニマル・コンクレートを積み上げたメチャクチャ興味深いショート音響集。素材そのものの特徴を消さず上手く合成した秀逸な断片の連続です。











Note: The Box is intended for all three records of the series.
180G VINYL + INLAY. COMES IN A SILKSCREENED CARDBOARD SLIPCASE.

Easy listening glitch innovator and pioneer Curd Duca presents his first work in 20 years; tiling 28 gorgeous vignettes in the first of a welcome trilogy for Cologne’s Magazine.

Aside from the Austrian artist’s genteel self-released album of accordion cut-ups, ‘Waves 1’ marks the return of a lowkey but vital figure from the ‘90s experimental electronic scene, whose series of LPs (Easy Listening and Elevator), adorned with a distinctive play on a famous logo, caught eyes and ears in record shops around the world via release on Normal and Mille Plateaux, most often making their way to chill-out sessions and the best record collections.

Curd Duca’s return could hardly be better timed for an era clearly in need of enchantment and peace, rustling together a spellbinding mosaic of sampled / processed ephemera that uncannily induces hypnagogic states with its succession of soothing but elusive, fragmentary moments. It’s exceptionally well done, constantly spouting with lovely new ideas that evaporate, segue, transition to the next with a illusionist’s sleight-of-hand, adding up to one of the cutest and mercurial albums you’ll cop this year. - boomkat

Part of the beauty of Curd Duca’s album lies in the fact that it opens up from so many perspectives. Situated somewhere between pop and avantgarde, it can be seen as a collection of treasures, a commentary on our acoustic environment, as an attempt to dissect the world and to stylize its parts. Some pieces are exaggerations. Some allusions. Others abstractions, parodies, and transfigurations. It is often not so clear if the music is based on a sample or a synthetic sound. This music should not be trivialized or underestimated. With Waves, Duca is exploring the essence of sound, in various layers of meaning. - Björn Gottstein, Donaueschingen Music Festival