Curd Duca

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Curd Duca: Easy Listening

by AAJ Staff
May 1, 1999

The idea is simple. You start with samples of old music, and records playing in locked grooves. On top of this Curd Duca adds simple keyboards and floating sounds, giving the old record a new stmosphere. The title is apt: these short pieces are meant for the background, and don’t require intense analysis. But I didn’t say it isn’t worth hearing: ambient sound with a little edge, it’s like “future” music of the ‘Fifties, nostalgia for a time that never ...