Showing posts with label Dura. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dura. Show all posts

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Dura - Altered Resonance

The second (see above for the first) in this two part Patient Sounds update, comes from Dura, with Altered Resonance. A soft glow of slowly oscillating drones that weave between poles, eventually being defined by delicately played acoustic guitar. It's a patiently developing, lovely soundscape that gently draws the ear closer. Low tones that muffle your ears desire to seek outside the limited palate of tones, creating deep almost hypnotic focus on the crisp folk acoustic. The flip plays with what feels like country and western vibes creating a windswept panoramic of high country desert. Feels simple, but somehow endlessly massive. Sounds like a Terrence Malick film about American Primitivism and the enormity of the universe.

Edition of 50, looks like we're already sold out at Patient Sounds, but still available both from the the excellent Tomentosa and direct from the artist, by emailing Mattson at the email address on his Bandcamp Page.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Dura - Tired Waves

Charming, beautiful ambient guitar drift from Dura, with Tired Waves on Metaphysical Circuits. As I don't play guitar, of have any foundational knowledge of the instrument, you'll have to forgive that I can't really tell you what this is, only how it is. And how it is, is soft, delicate, and without a shred of difficulty or pretense. Long sustained threads of melody with blindingly bright guitar, both what sounds like gentle fast picking, and notes sliding down(up), and away from the listener. And as things progress a bit of warm but still ambient riffage begins (yes I think ambient riffage can exist), accompanied by light percussion. I greatly appreciate the mix on this album, it all feels perfectly centered and balanced. A single entity, a unified movement. Every bit of this breathing in time, inhale and exhale. Sounds like the edge of a lake lapping the shore when driven by a warm breeze.

No edition size on this one (edit: per the artist, the edition is 50). Nicely printed on smooth stock, tapes in aqua blue. Grab direct from Metaphysical Circuits.