Sometimes in life you find yourselves at a point where you need to walk away
and leave something behind if you ever want to go back to it. Other paths must
be walked, other experiences learnt from to give you a fresh view of where
you’ve come from. In that sense
going back to the roots, rediscovering their past with fresh eyes, is the
concept behind Richard Dorfmeister & Rupert Huber’s new Tosca album,
‘Going Going Going’.
For over two decades and several albums Tosca has served as a vehicle for Richard and Rupert to express their personal moods and impressions, each release holding up a mirror to their inner lives. Now though after ten albums the journey has come full circle and once again they’ve returned to the kind of instrumental tracks, full of deep beats and dubbed out textures that made Tosca’s name.
The result is ‘Going Going Going’, an album that Tosca fans will immediately recognize and yet one that doesn’t just trade on former glories. Hitting the ground running opening track ‘Import Export’ sounds like a Lee Scratch Perry version of a Ennio Morricone soundtrack, a motif reoccurs throughout the album, most notably on ‘Dr Dings’, their reinterpretation of America’s classic ‘Horse With No Name’.