TUU

Tuu was an ambient group from the late 1980s to 1999. Led by Martin Franklin, the band emerged from the post acid house chill out scene of early 1990s in the UK, blending electronica and the emerging sampling technology with traditional and invented global instrumentation.
TUU
Nick Parkin - Descent

Artist: Nick Parkin
P: 1997
A meditative obscure travel with acoustic and electronic treated sounds. First solo album from a member of  Tuu and Stillpoint project. 
Nick Parkin : Bowed and Plucked Strings, Keyboards, Electronics, Flutes, Gongs, Percussions, and Manipulated Stones.
All compositions, Treatments, Production, Recording and Mixing ,Nick Parkin London 1996

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TUU + Nick Parkin - Terma

Artist: TUU + Nick Parkin
P: 1998
Tuu, composer Martin Franklin, put Tibetan singing bowls over electronic beats years ago. Thus, Franklin is one of the forerunners of international electronica. On Terma, Tuu teams up with similarly minded Nick Parkin, another ambient/innerspace composer (mostly for synthesizer). Frame drums, water drums, and gongs keep a fluid, reverberating, sonorous bottom to the compositions that feature various flutes and droning synthesizers. The effect is ethereal and atmospheric. Languid, exotic melodies wash over the listener, evoking images of candle-lit mountain shrine interiors and crepuscular spirit summoning rituals on the wooded plain.

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TUU - All Our Ancestors

Artist: TUU
P: 1989/1990
A rich combination of the exotic and the electronic. A mystical, magical travelog exploring ancient, hidden dimensions.
Deep, ancient atmospheres.

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TUU - Invocation (Archive)

Artist: TUU
P: 1990 / 1995
"Invocation" is just another trip to ambient paradise on exotic percussion, spacey keyboards, dreamy flute and a whole array of strange sounding ethnic instruments. Like any other Tuu album,this is a voyage in time to a period when the Earth was still largely covered with unspoiled tropical forests. A fantastic ambient/psychedelic album, recomended to fans of Jon Hassell, Jorge Reyes and Steve Roach.

 

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TUU - Mesh

Artist: TUU
P: 1997
Starts out windy and forcefull,floats into meloncholy chimey wisps. Manages (within)a hairbreath "eastern" sounds and influences, a determined and mindful push to, well drift and dream. Contemplative, very much so, innnovative somewhat, but well orchestrated. Keeps your attention but allows you to lightly focus as well. Tuu has been around for well over ten years, and this is without question their best full-length release to date. The combination of synthesized sounds and a wide range of Asian instruments (mostly percussion) results in music that can be adventurous, playful, and/or contemplative. Native instruments used include clay pot (the Indian term is ghatam), gongs, bells, harmonium, bansuri (a wooden flute), ney (a Middle Eastern wind instrument) and others. This album is consistently stronger and more interesting than the group's previous releases; definitely worth a listen.


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TUU - One Thousand Years

Artist: TUU
P: 2001
Restful, introspective journeys through ancestral environments. Another mystical travelog exploring distant, hidden dimensions.
One Thousand Years is a classic CD from TUU. The lineup for this disc is Martin Franklin on Chatan pot drums and bowl gongs, Richard Clare on flutes and pan pipes, and Mykyl O'Dempsey on samples and synthesizers. This is a set of deep and mysterious desert ambience. It is surprising to hear desert ambience with a Middle Eastern flair coming from Windsor, England, but Franklin, Clare, and O'Dempsey have the knack. Their sound design is subtle and airy; they use silence as an instrument. The atmospheres are dry and hot and the soundscape shimmers like a mirage. This is an essential CD. It will appeal to fans of Mo Boma, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Steve Roach, and Ma Ja Le.

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TUU - The Frozen Lands

Artist: TUU
P:
1999
LTD 1000
Definitely a departure from the dense tribal atmospheres of previous Tuu recordings, The Frozen Lands is equally entrancing, just an alternate means of arriving at a different location. I would certainly liked to have heard more, but grant a 9.1 for these beautifully shapeless artifacts from another sonic region. In his first solo release, Martin Franklin steers Tuu's sound away from the humid tribal excursions of, say, Terma. Instead, this 21-minute mini-disc delivers a panoramic slice of otherworldy vistas straight from The Frozen Lands. Gone are the ethnic instruments and earthy rhythms; this is a place of rolling clouds of sound, an unkown area bathed in washes of lightness and darkness.

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V/A - Cryosphere

Artist: Lightwave, Oöphoi, TUU, u.a.
P: 2006
LTD 300
Cryosphere is a musical journey that transports the listener into glacial and unexplored lands where icebergs collide and where everything is frozen.

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V/A - Twilight Earth International Soiree

Artist: Vidna Obamana, Steve Roach,u.a.
P: 1994
Just look at the names in the tracklist above - if you are into this type of ambient music you know without a doubt that this is a winning formula. And this fine collection of artists totally fail to let us down. Weird but fascinating ethnic rhythm with electronic enhancements-a-plenty, O YUKI CONJUGATE's track with it's breathy human voice punctuation serves us well as a starting off point, and establishes the high quality of the album. VIDNA OBMANA follows perfectly with a whispy dream vision accompanied by minimal percussion which could have been taken directly from the previous track. Relaxing and just that little bit mysterious. STEVE ROACH takes a similar ethnic percussion and accompanies it with electronic drift and the sound of a thunder storm. JORGE REYES takes us on a journey through the past, making a music evocative of ancient civilizations and the sounds of nature which accompanied those who lived in such ancient times and places. HYBRYDS take us somewhere else, away from more 'primitive' cultures. Although I have never heard their music for aquariums, this strikes me as being along similar lines, with water gurgling and whale-like sounds wailing away in the background. TEMPS PERDU? forgot to nip to the loo before recording this, so had to go during it's creation. Besides the last few drops shaken out, we drift through a place not dissimilar to VANGELIS's take on the "Blade Runner" future, with pattering ethnic drums and a variety of wind instruments all combining into a passive, calming atmosphere. DINO OON & KONRAD KRAFT head more towards a growling Isolationism without losing the overall string of effect this album seems to create. The tune is more forward, more obvious, less atmospheric. VOICE OF EYE's piece, although drifting and calm, has dark and disturbing edges which remind me of NIN's theme to "SE7EN". JEFF GREINKE attempts to calm our nerves back down with a gentle tube of shifting sustains. Simple as it is, there's a whole lot going on here, although it sounds like one moment frozen in time. ALIO DIE, those purveyors of unimaginable beauty, bring us a dark and disturbing revisit to the land JORGE REYES took us to, now infected by VOICE OF EYE's darkness. Dark, mysterious ethnic world in which a thing - dragon or malign beast - dwells in the shadows, waiting for night. PAUL SCHÜTZE brings us up to date with a Jazz which seems to combine the elements of all those mentioned above, keeping a slightly disquiet, unnerving feeling to the music. His is a world not of peace and calm, but of hidden dangers, of eyes watching your every move. Easy listening doesn't guarantee ease-of-listening. HUMAN FLESH are something else again, with an orchestrated mirror-vision of calm. Very different from anything previously. Lighter, brighter, a balm for the ears and the nerves. And finally, of course, TUU take us for one more visit to the ethnic realms. Almost as calming as the previous track, TUU make a beautiful music which, with it's Asian-sounding drums, makes for a fascinating listening experience.
An album which was probably darker than anticipated (which is no bad thing). Combining beauty and ugliness in equal shares.And of course well worth investing in.

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