Elevator3 review

Marks a new level of Curd Duca's art of the digital cut-up and advanced sample- based sound- scaping. The subtitle `digitalanalog mood music' refers to its mostly analog source material and its affinities to jazzy digital improvisation and the non-mechanistic sensibilities of late-romantic classical music, also employing a rather expanded notion of mood. In 48 (!) tracks, a wide variety of sounds, textures, and rhythms, floats by and mysteriously coalesces into a stylistically coherent work, transcending contradictions between experimental and emotional, intellectual and enjoyable.`ELEVATOR 3` is atmospheric concept art: light and dark, complex and simple, laid back and elegant.