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TUU: One Thousand Years
ByTUU always stays in a nocturnal, contemplative mood. Sometimes, at the beginning of a piece, single notes on cymbals or drum can sit for long seconds unaccompanied, as if they were punctuating ancient rituals or meditation. When the rhythms get going, they would be called "tribal" except that it would have to be a rather somnolent tribe producing them. TUU doesn't rely on massed sound effects or heavy multilayering to get their sound; it's a clear, if thin texture, doing more with less. Listening to TUU one gets images of humid jungle rivers in the night, or lanterns flickering in Buddhist temples – a romantic, warm vision of an ideal Southeast Asia distilled for quiet after-midnight moments.
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Title: One Thousand Years | Year Released: 2001 | Record Label: Waveform Records
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