‘Duality’ is the latest album from the alternative classical music pioneer Dardust. A double album comprising a total of 20 tracks, it follows the release of three taster EPs: ‘#001 Coordinate’, ‘#002 Hymns’, and ‘#003 Horizons’ (featuring Horizon In Your Eyes, previewed at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest).
For the first time, Dardust presents the two halves of his musical soul – the acoustic world and electronic music – in complete isolation from one another. While on previous albums Dardust has added electronic soundscapes to his minimalist piano compositions, creating a genre that straddles neo-classical and pop, he has here chosen to split his two realms into two parallel but converging experiences.
The solo piano tracks on ‘RIGHT HEMISPHERE’ express the pure emotion and innocence of contemporary pianistic virtuosity through music inspired by the natural world and a more emotionally spontaneous sense of improvisation, like that of a poet. The electronic tracks on ‘LEFT HEMISPHERE’, by contrast, symbolise the rational part of our brain, the ‘engineer’ within the artist. They've been shaped with a new sound geometry linked to patterns, beats, synthesisers, and musical worlds belonging to different styles, blended together to produce a fresh type of artistic narrative.