UNICAZÜRN — Temporal Bends
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"UnicaZürn are:
Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe; Coil)
David Knight (Arkkon; Shock Headed Peters; Danielle Dax; Lydia Lunch)
Both are also members of the improvisation group The Amal Gamal Ensemble.
Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, Temporal Bends is a journey through time, and a dive into the depths. UnicaZürn sessions have always been accompanied by the spectre of water; slow currents or lapping waves, windows of streaming rain, seashore horizons. Temporal Bends is aquatic, coastal music, connecting an experience of the rivers and seas of England with the micro-waterways of memory and the mind, through decompression and dehydration to full flood and saturation. The oceans and estuaries of late evenings past and yet to come.
UnicaZürn's core musical instrumentation is processed electric guitar, clarinet and saxophone. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower's reed playing provided a distinctive 'free-melancholy' in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add copious analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through Tangerine Dream's early albums to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music.
Special guest vocals on the song 'Jack Sorrow' by Danielle Dax, who also contributed the front cover painting.
With Temporal Bends, UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind's eye.
MySpace URL: www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial" [label / website info]
www.cyclobe.com
"Recently I was quite disappointed by Cherry Red's re-issue of some material by Five Or Six. Whereas the band's complete output might easily fit on two CDs, they were granted a single, forty minute CD. What a shame. That complaint has nothing to do with this CD by UnicaZürn, save for the fact that one half of UnicaZürn was once a member of Five Or Six, David Knight. Later on he was a member of Arkkon, Shockheaded Peters and played with Lydia Lunch. These days he is also a member of The Amal Gamal Ensemble, an improvisation group. There he meets Stephen Thrower, whom you surely know as a member of Cyclobe and Coil. Heavy weights from the world where alternative popmusic, rock music even, meet up with the more experimental edges of music - the world of Vital Weekly. Together they work as UnicaZürn, but hardly a day-time job. This material was recorded over a period of five years. Knight gets credit for synthesizer, organ and guitar and Thrower for keyboards, saxophone and clarinet.
Danielle Dax appears on one piece with vocals. Perhaps that piece, 'Jack Sorrow' is the albums only hint towards 'pop' music, or perhaps just her vocals. Its a short piece, and hardly representing the album. The other three pieces span some forty minutes and finds itself in a highly abstract sound mode. It opens up with some drone like material, which unfolds itself over the course of the pieces into a fine work of electronics, which rely heavy on analogue synthesizer (cosmic at times) and heavily treated, spacious guitars and reed instruments, in what is a great album. An excellent production, with always something happening at every corner of the room. Quite 'loud' and 'present', this is music that grabs the listener and leaves him breathless: until Dax sings the final piece - almost like a lullaby. Great CD." [FdW / Vital Weekly]
Stephen Thrower (Cyclobe; Coil)
David Knight (Arkkon; Shock Headed Peters; Danielle Dax; Lydia Lunch)
Both are also members of the improvisation group The Amal Gamal Ensemble.
Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, Temporal Bends is a journey through time, and a dive into the depths. UnicaZürn sessions have always been accompanied by the spectre of water; slow currents or lapping waves, windows of streaming rain, seashore horizons. Temporal Bends is aquatic, coastal music, connecting an experience of the rivers and seas of England with the micro-waterways of memory and the mind, through decompression and dehydration to full flood and saturation. The oceans and estuaries of late evenings past and yet to come.
UnicaZürn's core musical instrumentation is processed electric guitar, clarinet and saxophone. Knight is renowned for his pulverising fretwork in Shock Headed Peters, and his cavernous guitar treatments in Arkkon; Thrower's reed playing provided a distinctive 'free-melancholy' in Coil and emerges as electro-acoustic texture in Cyclobe. To this duophonic arrangement, UnicaZürn add copious analogue synthesizer, mellotron and piano, with influences echoing back through Tangerine Dream's early albums to the VCS3 days of Roxy Music.
Special guest vocals on the song 'Jack Sorrow' by Danielle Dax, who also contributed the front cover painting.
With Temporal Bends, UnicaZürn offer a deeply immersive music which hovers at the brink of abstraction, seeking to conjure at that threshold fantastical coastlines and subterranean narratives in the mind's eye.
MySpace URL: www.myspace.com/unicazurnofficial" [label / website info]
www.cyclobe.com
"Recently I was quite disappointed by Cherry Red's re-issue of some material by Five Or Six. Whereas the band's complete output might easily fit on two CDs, they were granted a single, forty minute CD. What a shame. That complaint has nothing to do with this CD by UnicaZürn, save for the fact that one half of UnicaZürn was once a member of Five Or Six, David Knight. Later on he was a member of Arkkon, Shockheaded Peters and played with Lydia Lunch. These days he is also a member of The Amal Gamal Ensemble, an improvisation group. There he meets Stephen Thrower, whom you surely know as a member of Cyclobe and Coil. Heavy weights from the world where alternative popmusic, rock music even, meet up with the more experimental edges of music - the world of Vital Weekly. Together they work as UnicaZürn, but hardly a day-time job. This material was recorded over a period of five years. Knight gets credit for synthesizer, organ and guitar and Thrower for keyboards, saxophone and clarinet.
Danielle Dax appears on one piece with vocals. Perhaps that piece, 'Jack Sorrow' is the albums only hint towards 'pop' music, or perhaps just her vocals. Its a short piece, and hardly representing the album. The other three pieces span some forty minutes and finds itself in a highly abstract sound mode. It opens up with some drone like material, which unfolds itself over the course of the pieces into a fine work of electronics, which rely heavy on analogue synthesizer (cosmic at times) and heavily treated, spacious guitars and reed instruments, in what is a great album. An excellent production, with always something happening at every corner of the room. Quite 'loud' and 'present', this is music that grabs the listener and leaves him breathless: until Dax sings the final piece - almost like a lullaby. Great CD." [FdW / Vital Weekly]