
David Toop (born 5th May 1949, Enfield, London, England) is a musician, writer and sound curator. He has published five books, currently translated into six languages: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound, Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000), Haunted Weather and Sinister Resonance. His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno's Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released six solo albums - Screen Ceremonies
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Sea Slug
Slow Loris Versus Poison Snail
Things Just Went Sour Gradually All At Once - Mixed
Dry Keys Echo in the Dark and Humid Early Hours
Things Just Went Sour Gradually All At Once
For believing (you were a strange beautiful unearthly creature from a faraway planet)
Pieces Of Wood And Iron, Phials Of Odours
You could touch him but he wasn’t there
For A Language To Come
Human Skin And The Stone Steps
Mixed Blood
Ancestral Beings, Sightless By Their Own Dust
Unspeakable Within It
Compelled To Approach
Possibly it was only the coming of certain indefinable hours
Chair Creaks, Though No One Sits There
Mud & Quartz
Almost Transparent Blue
Black Chamber
Setting Stones
Bodies of Water
Soft Cavities
Ultra-Paste
A ghost travelling half a mile from its own shape
Invertebrate Drawings
Tiny human figurines made from sand. If you held these to your ear, you heard soft sweet music
Hypnogogmatist
All I desire
Do The Bathosphere
Waxed Skin
Sugar Frosted Charcoal Scene
Mamba Point
Pink Noir
Smaller life spirits (that inhabit the joints)
She fell asleep somewhere outside the world
Lime Leaves
Silver Birds
Mr Lullaby Should Have Rocked You
Raw Mouth Shape
Abyssal Tracker
Plume, Preceded by Far Off Inside
Suddenly the world had dropped away
The Divination Of The Bowhead Whale
Gored Fig Sacs
Mouth Cave
The Chairs Story
Blind Eel Priestess
Always she seemed to be listening to some foray in the blood, that had no known setting
Poison Incense
When I first came here (I thought I’d never get used to the trains; now when it’s quiet I get nervous)
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