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UnicaZu​̈​rn - The Innermost Chamber Leads to the Sky

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UnicaZürn emerged in 2009 from the belly of a live-improv' beast called The Amal Gamal Ensemble. Knight and Thrower have worked with the Ensemble since its inception in 2001.
Knight got his first VCS3 in 1978, and recorded his first single at the legendary Electrophon Studio shortly after. During the 1980s Knight was guitarist and co-songwriter with highly influential art-pop maverick Danielle Dax, and contributed wall-of-rock guitars to the malign poetry of Karl Blake in Shock Headed Peters. He also works as Arkkon, a solo project concentrating on brooding electro-minimalist music.
Thrower's credits include eight years in Coil, with whom he recorded the seminal albums Scatology, Horse Rotorvator and Love's Secret Domain. He is currently one half of electro-psychedelic duo Cyclobe, with Ossian Brown. His solo credits include original electronic movie scores for Hell's Ground (2007) and Down Terrace (2009).

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On this recording UnicaZürn used: EMS Synthi AKS, Korg MS20, Roland System 100, ARP Solina String Ensemble, Mellotron, Yamaha SK20 and Nord Lead.
UnicaZürn combine the talents of Stephen Thrower on keyboards and reeds, and David Knight on guitar and keyboards. Together, they have released five critically acclaimed albums, featuring expansive instrumental pieces that can clock in at anything between eight and thirty minutes. Their sound is birthed in improvisation, then edited, reconfigured and polished to an obsidian gleam. ‘The Innermost Chamber Leads To The Sky’ is taken from an improvisation originally recorded by the duo in Knight’s home in Battersea, London in 2012. UnicaZürn have a large archive of recordings which are remade/remodelled and embellished (sometimes decades) later. Much of the synth work on the second half of this track was added by Thrower at his studio on the South Coast of England in August 2022. An audio equivalent of a Schwitters Merzbau, much of this work process is a slow-burn spanning decades, but in doing so, creates a unique timelessness.

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from Modulisme Session 073, released October 21, 2022

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