Duel / Duel
Album: Duel   Collection:General
Artist:Duel   Added:Jan 2002
Label:Quodlibet Recordings  

Recent Airplay
1. May 01, 2002: Brownian Day of Silence
Pummel

Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2002-02-27
Free-jazz improv feel to this noisy sound collage. Crazy maniacal feel to it all. Improv noise guitar playing figures in front amidst heavy samples, treated drums (acous and electro), and fine tape manipulations. Like Zorn or Mr Bungle and Caspar Brotzman in a cyclone. Most songs brief. Seriously fucked fucked up for the seriously fucked up.

1,2) crazy randomness, maniacal, brief
3) sample collage, pulsing
4) more
5) quieter, sparse, builds nicely, longer
6) crazy w/ drumming
7) 0:16
8) quiet guit, bass, drums, slow meandering, song-like
9) collage
10) brief
11) heavy guit dist wall, w/ voice sample
12) heavy noise guit
13) drums figure in, more space, still crazy
14) guit+noise
15) tape manip w/ noodly guit
16) quieter, sparser
17) heavy drumming w/ guit
18, 19) tape manip w/ guit
20) synth quality
21) quieter, almost ambient compared
22) small bursts ebb and flow
23) nice stereo imaging, wacky collage- very quiet after 1min (ambient bird sounds) for 11 more min followed by more craziness

Track Listing
1. Bash   12. Maul
2. Raze   13. Fibrillate
3. Trample   14. Assimilate
4. Flay   15. Perforate
5. Snuff   16. Serrate
6. Churn   17. Mob
7. Emasculate   18. Aerate
8. Tenderize   19. Scratch
9. Smack   20. Lash
10. Castrate   21. Poke
11. Puncture   22. Agitate
  23. Pummel