- Artist
- David Toop
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- Apparition Paintings
- Label
- Room40
- Catalogue Number
- RM4116
- Release Date
- September 11, 2020
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A companion piece of sorts to his recent, brilliant ‘Field Recording and Fox Spirits’ tableaux of magic-realist location recordings, ‘Apparition Paintings’ is an ambitious, sprawling new album from David Toop, at this point 50-years deep into a career that his seen him explore constantly shifting musical topographies, as well as work as a researcher, writer and critic. It’s an ambitious and restless work, featuring contributions from Áine O’Dwyer, Rie Nakajima, Paul Burwell and Elaine Mitchener among others, and shifts from a sort of skewed Fourth World ambient to atomised jazz-fusion and country-folk with curiously plasmic results. “Don’t ask me about genre or consistency. Who cares?” says Toop - and of course we don’t, and you shouldn’t - especially at this precise moment in time. What you get here is a personal narrative mapped out on the back of Toop’s eyelids, one moment reminding us of Eiko Ishibashi’s recent folklore masterpiece Hyakki Yagyo, before retreating down a mazy Gamelan wormhole, into shimmering chorus-pedal dreampop, Laswellian fusion and concrète abstractions - without flinching. “Half the world is drowning; the other half is in flames. Each story is an animal, a plant, something you drink, a surface you touch, a faint line, some memory emanating from a cardboard box. “’Things’ in themselves are only events that for a while are monotonous,” wrote Carlo Rovelli in The Order of Time. Maybe sounds are melting ‘things’, tired of the monotonous real.”
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You could touch him but he wasn't there
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Tiny human figurines made from sand. If you held these to your ear, you heard soft sweet music
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A ghost travelling half a mile from its own shape
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For believing (you were a strange beautiful unearthly creature from a faraway planet)
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Smaller life spirits (that inhabit the joints)
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She fell asleep somewhere outside the world
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All I desire
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When I first came here (I thought I?d never get used to the trains; now when it?s quiet I get nervous)
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Always she seemed to be listening to some foray in the blood, that had no known setting
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Some of them (to isolate themselves even further, beat their own ears until the tiny bones within were crushed)
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Possibly it was only the coming of certain indefinable hours
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Suddenly the world had dropped away
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