Island Of Dust
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Island Of Dust
Soleilmoon - SOL 81 CD (1999) CD
includes gatefold insert

Nick Parkin: percussion, gongs, cymbals, frame drums, clay pot, electronics, samples, flutes, keyboards, psaltrey & harp

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Tracks

  1. Culumulus
  2. Circe
  3. Sarcophagus
  4. Mutability
  5. Arc
  6. Erebus
  7. Island Of Dust
  8. Alluvium
  9. Spores

All composition, treatments, production, recording & mixing by Nick Parkin London 1997-1998

Photos by Nick Parkin
Design by Nick Parkin & Sykodjiuia

Thanks to Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Jeff Higley & Jim & Margaret Parkin.

Soleilmoon 02/03/99

"Island of Dust" is the new album from talented multi-instrumentalist Nick Parkin, a London, England musician well known for his collaborations with TUU on their 1997 albums "Terma" & "Mesh" (Fathom) as well as his participation in the group Stillpoint on their 1995 album "Maps Without Edges" (City of Tribes).

Listening to "Island of Dust" brings to mind dark textural soundscapes & desolate windswept landscapes. Layered instrumentals create a brooding evocation of a harsh terrain harboring mythical subterranean regions, glimpsing sunken eroding fragments exposed by light & wind.

Nick Parkin works freelance as a musician & composer for dance & theatre companies in the UK & Europe. His work has primarily involved using acoustic instruments in combination with electronics & synthesizers, samples & effects processors. He also uses prerecorded material derived from instrumental & environmental sounds. Much of his work is evocative of elemental & landscape themes.

This is Nick Parkin's second solo project. Besides the aforementioned collaboration albums he released "Descent" (Hic Sunt Leones) in 1996.