Search - Max Eastley and David Toop :: Doll Creature

FRENCH IMPORT - "Doll Creature is the third album release in thirty years by sound sculptor/musician Max Eastley and composer, author and sound curator David Toop. Their first record together, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released in 1975 on Brian Eno s Obscure label; their second, Buried Dreams, released in 1994 on Beyond, was voted third placed album of the year, behind Portishead and Massive Attack in the 1994 Wire critics poll, and described in Melody Maker as The scariest ambient record ever. An album beyond your disturbed imagination. Doll Creature is a further exploration of the mysterious zones in which Eastley s mechanical sound sculptures, instruments with a life of their own, are transformed within the computer by David Toop s additions and manipulations. The spatial dimension has changed again from the first two albums, being even more a marker of the differences between human and machine actions, computer space and physical space. The cover image shows a little doll who lost his way, then found himself in a halfway state between doll and child, wandering through a post-apocalyptic landscape. His body is bulky enough but those arms and arms need more than one dinner. His outlook is positive. At least he has the boots for the job. Minoru Hatanaka, curator at Tokyo s ICC, has written these notes about Eastley and Toop: By creating maps of sound as performance in Toop's terms, they are trying to create a mysterious imaginative landscape through sound, a narrative that takes form within our emotions through the unvisualizable phenomenon of sound. When the delicate micromotions woven out of the highly minimal movements of Eastley's whirling sound machine evoke further images and beckon us into that narrative we are likely to find animistic emotions awakened somewhere inside our memory. "