DUSA

"Ljung"

Akultur - 2006

LP - 300 copies

Incredibly strange music. Can't think of a more suitable definition for the crazy collection of sounds featured on this limited edition LP. Dusa comes from Sweden and, to my knowledge, this should be its first full-length release, wrapped in an elegant fold out cover with enigmatic vintage-looking shots taken in an unidentified desolate landscape, and enriched by a not less enigmatic collection of postcards and a full colour insert, all portraying the same locations at the edge of the world.

The music is a crazy cut and paste collage of sounds, noises and musical lumps hurled from the solitary Nordic summer environment evoked in the pictures. Creakings, clumsy noises, lo-fi ambient improvisations, field recordings, cows and dogs, deranged folk bits... any source of sound seems to be allowed in this unpredictable stream of consciousness, developed along two long compositions that occupy one side of the vinyl each.

If you are a dedicated fan of the most insane sound collagists, such as Nurse With Wound, Morphogenesis, Organum, the very early Severed Heads, Zoviet France or Christoph Heemann, then Dusa is another name you should note down, and you should also hurry up to get a copy of this LP before it's sold out. If, on the contrary, you can't stand irrational, unorganized, arrhythmic and atonal sound constructions, keep off, for your mental sanity.

- Simon V.

Website: http://akultur.org/dusa

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/dusamusik