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ISNAJ DUI
isnaj dui - Unstable Equilibrium
Unstable Equilibrium is the latest offering from Katie English, recording under her Isnaj Dui guise, and a rather wonderful release it is too. Although the customary drifting structures of loops, layers and overlapping instrumental tones are in check, you couldn't really declare this to be an ambient record, instead it tends to evoke the sense that you're listening to something that might have come out via Lyrichord many years ago. Disjointed tuned percussion pieces (somewhere between thumb piano and gamelan) fire up at various points in the album, with the likes of 'Founded On Curiosity' and 'The Paper Fell Apart' both sounding as though they might have originated from field recordings made on an unspecified South East Asian island. Taking a different approach, more neo-classical aesthetics are achieved with the harmonised, flute-like figures repeated and stretched across 'Klangfarbenkreis' and 'Chill Turns To Cold', but in all cases the presence of electronic intervention is subdued and played down to leave the album feeling like a far more naturalistic and organically hewn piece of work than it probably was. Absolutely gorgeous music and a big recommendation for followers of this excellent label and good music everywhere.
