Black Chamber by David Toop
"The Black Chamber (kurodo) is a room where the emperor from Komatsu after his accession to the throne always cooked for himself, still remembering how in the past, when he was a private person, he had dabbled in cookery. They say it is called the Black Chamber because it has become sooty from kindling smoke." Essays In Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko (c. 1330-1332)
"Emerging perhaps from the microquake of a sour minute in a difficult afternoon, a failed melody, and falling ceaselessly into failure, without rising, a melody, but also determined not to give in completely, mangrove knocked around by the waters held back by its dug-in roots."
Henri Michaux
Tracklist
| 1. | Soft Cavities | 5:49 |
| 2. | Waxed Skin | 5:35 |
| 3. | Apartment Thunder (Eros + Sacrifice) | 3:26 |
| 4. | Raw Mouth Shape | 4:02 |
| 5. | Silver Birds | 2:24 |
| 6. | Plume, Preceded by Far Off Inside | 4:00 |
| 7. | Ill-Faced Doll (Aozameta Omozashi Ni Katadorare) | 8:35 |
| 8. | Gored Fig Sacs | 1:07 |
| 9. | Blind Eel Priestess | 6:00 |
| 10. | Poison Incense | 3:37 |
| 11. | The Slapping Gun | 5:45 |
| 12. | Life In The Folds | 0:35 |
| 13. | Black Chamber | 3:00 |
Credits
Performed by David Toop (guitar, electronics, samples, steel guitar, field recordings made in Chiang Mai, Thailand) with Paul Burwell (percussion, 1), Terry Day (bamboo pipes, 4, 10), Lol Coxhill (soprano saxophone, 6, 11), Tom Recchion (organ, samples), Yurihito Watanabe (voice, 7).
Published Sub Rosa, 2003.
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David Toop is a musician, writer, curator and educator. He has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. Artists he has worked with include Rie Nakajima, Thurston Moore, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ania Psenitsnikova. He has released music on labels including Brian Eno's Obscure, David Sylvian's samadhisound and Lawrence English's ROOM40.