UnicaZürn

David Knight & Stephen Thrower

1 Temporal Bends :
I) Ship Of Shadows /II) Tunnel /III) Timefrieze /IV) Black Glass Mask 25:11
2 Nautilus 5:20
3 Six Fabulous Mutilations 15:12
4 Jack Sorrow 1:46
Lyrics By, Vocals - Danielle Dax

Temporal Lapse 92009)
5 Track CD-r.
Temporal Bends outtakes.
Limited edition bonus mail-order only.
Packaged in clear c-shell case.

Composed from recordings and improvisations made between 2004-2009 (with guest vocals by Danielle Dax), by the banks of the Thames and the East Sussex coast, Temporal Bends is a journey through time, and a dive into the depths. Recording sessions throughout have 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 UnicaZürn's 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.

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.

Both are also members of the improvisation group
The Amal Gamal Ensemble.

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