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Tim Coster / Nigel Wright

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CDR 3" from CLaudia (CLaudi_014)

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One seventeen minute long hit-single of slowly growing drone and hiss. Wispy layers build up and up and up, not into a noisy fury as such, but more along the lines of 90's shoegaze bands, or haunted lavender-smoked cathedral ambience.

This is a complete live set, recorded at the Wine Cellar, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007.


Tim: Laptop (Accordian & Synthetic Flute samples), Looping Pedal, Buddha Machine, Broken Oscillator, 4 Channel Mixer.

Nigel: Laptop (Cello and Guitar samples), Reverb Pedal, Looping Pedal, 4 Channel Mixer, iPod Microphone.


Cover by Gaelen Macdonald, "Köln" (2005).

REVIEWS:
This little three inch by New Zealand natives Tim Coster & Nigel Wright really packs a slow-burning wallop over its seventeen-minute duration. Beginning with some rather ephemeral rhythmic loops and subtle glitches, the duo build and build on their sound in waves, allowing things to peak and dissipate before coming back around again with another swell in sound. With a number of musicians working with drones these days Coster and Wright have really established something significant within this track, as their music, never at any moment falls into the background, but constantly engulfs the listener in swathes of sounds so deep that one sometimes wonders whether they'll be able to come up from this. Luckily, and at the same time almost disappointingly, a calm comes over the end of the track, slowly dissipating into silence. It would be interesting to see a full length that carried this much weight.
8/10 -- FOXY DIGITALIS (14 August, 2007)

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