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Andrew Duke "Environmental Politics" 3" CD
A 3" CD musically exploring the ramifications of damage to the ecosystem.
This new enigmatic and atmospheric 3" release displays yet another side to
the works of the already versatile Canadian sound artist, DJ, and music journalist
Andrew Duke. It was initially intended as an abstract sonic commentary on how some
politicians (particularly in his home town of Halifax, Nova Scotia), tend to have
misplaced priorities when it comes to placing importance on preserving the natural
environment. Therefore he writes: "I often use the sounds of Halifax in my work as my
way of commenting on how something so beautiful (our harbor) is destroyed through
(in)action -- we've been pumping our untreated sewage into the harbor for over
20 years and the city is still more interested in building new roads and buildings
than sewage treatment plants. there are outbreaks every summer from people who get
sick from the water because it is so contaminated; so some of the edgier (moments)
are about that -- (i.e.) the illnesses we bring upon ourselves." Includes one track
with Anne Sulikowski (Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks). Packaged in a mini-dvd case.
Halifax's Andrew Duke has released a brilliant mini nineteen minute
three-track for Seattle's and/OAR. It's watery, ebullient, austerity
drifts in a shallow depth of field on "Boil Order." The microtonal
silent roar of the nearly fourteen-minute "Industrial Itch" is a drone,
based on a one second clip, as other tracks here, it is derived from
field recordings and other sound samples from cities in Ontario and Nova
Scotia. The mythic fade and placid ebb of faint bubbly cracks in the
surface are pale among the din drawl of the invisible wake here. Subtle
as a fly caress, while undulating throughout the room, deeper than a San
Francisco fog atop Twin Peaks.
TJ Norris - igloo
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Last updated 06/22/08
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