o00o Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 (edited) https://azutiwaline.bandcamp.com/album/the-fifth-dream Quote Boomkat Product Review: Azu Tiwaline dreams in dubbed out drums and manipulated field recordings on a sick 2nd album via Marseille’s IOT Records Since emerging in 2020 with an acclaimed debut for Livity Sound, Tiwaline has attracted keen attention to her style of reticulated rhythmic syncopation and lush yet arid atmospheres that articulate her heritage and spirit thru the vernacular of global dance music. ‘The Fifth Dream’ proceeds from a debut 2020 LP ‘Draw Me a Silence’ with eight new productions that impart her impressionistic perspective on waking dream life and altered states relating to club music. It’s a substantial, near hour long session that takes its time to snake from reverberant steppers reminding of 2562 and early Shackleton to ruggeder rides redolent of recent Peverelist, and shore up in the latest examples of her original synthesis meshed with field recordings made in the desert of her native El Djerid, in South Tunisia, with added tombak drums and modular synth played by Franco-Persian spar Cinna Peyghamy. In step with the LP format, rather than short form, Tiwaline paints the broader canvas with a richly impressionistic, instrumental narrative that weaves between its tentative opener, spaced out with distant pipes and close mic’d ASMR whispers, via loose echoes of ’06 dubstep in ‘Antennae Opening’, to fleet-hoofed trot in ‘Long Hypnosis’ reminding of Shackleton’s psychedelic progginess, and a crafty standout of liquid-limbed duppy dance in ‘Reptilian Waves’ where her sound design sensitivities best elide with Cinna’s sloshing tombak in hybrid Arabic-Persian dance mode, before coming for the club jugular with their slamming ‘Mei Long’. Edited November 3, 2023 by o00o 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 just got the deluxe edition on vinyl. this really trips Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splesh Posted November 3, 2023 Share Posted November 3, 2023 Super hyped, never heard anything I didn't love from Azu Tiwaline! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted November 3, 2023 Author Share Posted November 3, 2023 Yeah I was also a big fan the moment I heard it the first time. The other releases are also really great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlockUser Posted November 4, 2023 Share Posted November 4, 2023 (edited) Wow thanks! Good stuff. Didn't know her. Reminds me a bit of djrum, not in terms of creative decisions, but it's a similar mood, chill but energetic, cold and warm at the same time. Rubs both mind and body in a very nice way. Maybe even rubs them together? Also, nice Karplus-Strong on Long Hypnosis. Thanks for posting! Bought. Edited November 4, 2023 by BlockUser 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splesh Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 Wow, The Fifth Dream is jawdropping 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
o00o Posted November 8, 2023 Author Share Posted November 8, 2023 I heard her stuff after one of my first LSD trips and she is now deeply interconnected with these experiences Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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