Isnaj Dui - Unstable Equilibrium

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 27 Aug, 2009.

'Unstable Equilibrium' is the new offering from Katie English a.k.a. Isnaj Dui on Home Normal records. It's very atmospheric, mood driven music created from heavily processed home spun loops and drones. Opener 'Towards Evening' is an immensely tranquil affair that shimmers and chirps it's way to infinity and beyond, it's incredibly peaceful music that could in no way upset or offend my palette. The rest of album is working equally as well for me. Various strange tones and sequences are introduced as the record progresses but nothing that alters the initial mood. Instruments are introduced and sonic's are embellished upon but a singular and effortless vision still remains. This is the ultimate late night headphones record in the vein of Aphex Twin's selected ambient works and such. Ignore the daft press release talk ('This music triggers for me a different experience with every listen. Maybe it will be the sound of a lonely alien crying on a tranquil moon, a field of singing flowers staring at the sun, or just my past dreams sailing away on an endless ocean.' - Ben Eshmade of Arctic Circle) and listen to me instead....this is really nice music. Check it out.

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Tracks:

1 - Towards Evening

2 - Signals Differ

3 - Creaks Strangely

4 - Chill Turns To Cold

5 - Founded On Curiosity

6 - Klangfarbenkreis

7 - The Paper Fell Apart

8 - Broken Fragments

9 - Mushroom Picking

10 - That Which Was Lost

Photography: Ian Hawgood / Design: Jeremy Bible

Press release:

It's hard to describe an album of moods, emotions and distant memories, but to me that’s what I find myself doing with Katie English’s music. Katie under her Isnaj Dui guise uses conventional and her own home made instrumentation to add loops and layers, until the track is ready to take on its own shape and form.

This music triggers for me a different experience with every listen. Maybe it will be the sound of a lonely alien crying on a tranquil moon, a field of singing flowers staring at the sun, or just my past dreams sailing away on an endless ocean.

Ben Eshmade (Arctic Circle)

thefish said:

I was on a tranquil moon once and I heard a lonely alien crying, but he didn't sound like this because this album is gorgeous and lovely to listen to, whereas the alien just got on my nerves.
Isnaj Dui, the artist who sounds so much better than a lonely crying alien.

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