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Seed, Fruit, Thorn

by Dubbio Nil

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[hymn 28]

Originally released as a 3" CDr in an edition of 125. Included a Poncirus Trifoliata seed along with instructions for planting.

"I was surprised when I first put on this recent 3” from the Hymns label, because it didn’t have the “Hymns sound” I have come to expect, gnarled sourced material chewed up and spit out by a couple hundred broken fuzzboxes and broken radios.
Instead, from the get go, this Dubbio Nil stuff is unwaveringly beautiful. Incredibly lush synth strings sounding like some kind of astral choir. I suggest cranking it up and letting the sound envelope you. The piece moves fluidly, subtly changing through this first section until a repetitive guitar figure replaces the synth pads briefly before it succumbs to the stranglehold of some reverbed, manipulated sounds. The fields of everlasting light and splendor at the start of the track are now forgotten in this dank cavern. The subsequent section balances those two ideas; the synth returns but there is an ominous feel. It sounds more resigned than reveled. Shards of static scratch along while the synth shrivels into a field recording of storm, which itself shrivels into silence.
It is quite a well made piece, it moves pretty effortlessly through all its changes though it’s the first section that I’m really smitten by. The 3” cd-r is packaged in the stark, signature Hymns art work and as a cool little bonus it comes with a seed and planting instructions. I got a Poncirus Trifoliata. Pretty sweet."
--Auxiliary Out
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"Along with this release comes a small plastic bag with a seed in it and there is a small text on the cover about grass, explaining (?) the title, and the webaddress of the band, but that website is hardly a place for extensive researching. So whatever he or she does, its about organic matter, I'd say. Producing sound with perhaps organic matter, being transformed through some sound effects, or perhaps even on a computer - its a bit hard to tell here. Its one piece that lasts about sixteen minutes and its not bad at all. It sort of reminded me of early Small Cruel Party or Yeast Culture - although: who'd be remembering that after all those years? Drone like, mysterious, vague, but also quite nice to hear. It leaves lots of room to think and interpretate things your way. Sometimes that's nice enough. A small gemm this one." --Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly

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"This sixteen minute composition is rooted firmly in the ambient drone tradition, constructed largely around the sorts of expansive synth tones that get Steve Roach all itchy. Over the duration of Seed, Fruit, Thorn, Dubbio Nil's Loren Knack segues through several distinct timbres and textures, ranging from radiant keyboard drone to understated, pedal-based noise. Although confined to one audio track on the CDR, the piece is divided into three distinct parts -- strangely, these segments are not intended to represent the Seed, the Fruit, and the Thorn, but are instead organized according to some other, unspecified context. The first chapter is a resplendent, keyboard-based journey to the centre of the Sun, while the second is an unsettling bit of machinelike industrialism. But Knack retains the best moment for last -- the track's final section leads the listener into what sounds like a digital forest, with lugubrious synths and audio of rainfall providing a woods-like feel. Amid the unmistakably naturalistic sound, digital thunder claps add menace to the brew. Ultimately, it's a solid finish to a striking experimental release." --Michael Tau, Indieville
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"I can't speak for what package you may get, but my copy of Dubbio Nil's new CDR featured a seed called Poncirus Trifoliata. A seed that, once planted and cared for, will sprout the Japanese Bitter Orange tree. It's a shrub armed with vicious spines that also blooms an orange that is too bitter to eat.

An aggressive plant for an otherwise palatable release. Dubbio Nil's single track stretches over 16 minutes and leans from drone synth work, slow fingerpicked guitar, lots of open spaces, what sounds like the sound of water back to more synths.

There is a natural tension that arises in the pieces and in between the pieces, a slow but steady build that smells of heavenly bliss. There is no fault in the execution, but also very little to grab onto or stand out. The transations in the beginning are a little abrupt, but they really get into a groove past the halfway mark and especially towards the final four minutes, where the water sound merges with synths and a smidge of dissonance and make for a surrounding sound that ends the disc very strongly. 6/10" -- Andrew Murdock Livingston, Foxy Digitalis

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released March 7, 2009

video of the first part: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W_55dJ0zzE

Dubbio Nil website: www.dubbionil.com

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