NM008LP 
AKIKO KIYAMA - Deviation

 The new album by Akiko Kiyama, consisting of 2 vinyl records, has become the long-awaited debut for Nervmusic Records, to at once fully demonstrate the musical philosophy and vector of the label. Deviation is not just a random selection of tunes, but a whole theatre act, made of sound patterns and melodies, a fantastic journey into a subspace of inner images and memories.
 The story of "Deviation" begins with "My Day" and "Erasers Talk" a classical show for Akiko; with deep and enveloped base; ideally accurate percussions on the trippy background of strings covered with the fog of delays and reverbs. Straight after that appears "Gabriel" – a touching minimalistic allegory on tango with the shivering fans of shakers and the polyphonic accords of an invisible piano.
 The second record plate includes "Nothing's Left Besides Iron And Chef" - a bouncing construction of ragged rhythms and crunchy hi-hats. It is also an interpretation of the track "You Are Pinocchio", which was released on Nervmusic Records previously with the single "If I Had a Pair of Shoes" powered by such remixers as Benjamin Fehr, Alka Rex, Laurine Frost and Alexkid.
 "Go For A Walk" concludes the first vinyl record. The genre classification of "Der Wald Erzählt Geschichte" and "Whereabouts", from the second vinyl, are not to be described. But if you have a strong desire to do so, then you could consider it as a mixture of trip-rock and click’and’cuts. These tracks consist of jazz-harmonies, strings arpeggios, and oriental rhythms; and are more about 60s atmosphere than contemporary club dancing. However they  play a significant role in the inner space of the album; and its dynamic, bringing together different moods and shapes into one united and complete composition.

A1. My Day
A2. Erasers Talk
B1. Gabriel
B2. Go For A Walk
C1. Nothing's Left Besides Iron And Chef
C2. The World Is Pinocchio
D1. Whereabouts
D2. Sleepyhead
D3. Der Wald Erzählt Geschichte

Written and produced by Akiko Kiyama 2010/2012.
Mastered by Andreas Kauffelt at Schnittstelle.
Artwork by Igor Skaletsky
Worldwide distribution by Intergroove.
NM008LP © 2012 Nervmusic Records.
Release date: 19 dec 2012

Deviation

watch a distorted "Title 1" video here https://vimeo.com/100903559

Title 1

The Constant Salesman

01 My Day

02 Eraser Talk

03 Gabriel

04 Go For A Walk

08 Sleepyhead

Live performance at Make It Up Club, 3rd of May 2016.

Live solo performance at Make It Up Club 03052016

DJ Shufflemaster & Chester Beatty Feat. DJ Funk - Our House Music Remixes  [SHIKIKYOKAI]

A1 OurHouseMusic Akiko KiyamaMix

Fragment taken from our improv set for Signal festival at Nikola-Lenivets land art park.

Zoya Zerkalski & Lisokot aka Cotenius Z live @ Signal festival 17.08.17

»winter, or a time which represents that season, in a metropole that appears to be moscow. the visitor is taking metro no. 6 at leninsky prospect as he is on his way to the ballroom close to gorky park. the air is icy, the sky is grey. a cat, previously hidden among the dirty snow, is crossing his way. the closer he gets to his destination, the clearer he can hear music, music that reminds him of future days.

the dimly lit room is only sparsely filled. on stage a graceful singer, capturing the room with her presence. captive voices merge with chords played on yet unknown instruments – machine rhythms cycle in 3/4 time. the vigorous peasant dancers, following an instinctive knowledge of the weight of fall, utilize their surplus energy to press all their strength into the proper beat of the measure, thus intensifying their personal enjoyment in dancing. here, in the transhuman ballroom, time stands still and values are being dissolved by numeric progressions. spiritually allied, the visitor, the singer and the peasant dancers short-circuit the present moment while the last falling snow slowly turns into rain.«

with »walzerzyklus«, atom™ returns to raster to complete his series that has once begun with »liedgut« and continued with »winterreise«. the 7 tracks, created in collaboration with russian singer lisokot, are subdivided into 3 pieces of 2 minutes each and 4 pieces of 3 minutes each, intentionally reflecting the 3/4 time of a classic waltz.

throughout the release, lisokot’s delicate vocals are put into different relations to atom™’s rather cool machine music, either complementing or contrasting each other. in the same line, the 3 shorter “leitmotifs” provide the main theme that is taken up repeatedly in the course of the release.

the EP will be released on CD and as special vinyl edition limited to 300 copies.

Walzerzyklus

atom™ & lisokot »transhuman melody« taken from »walzerzyklus«

MAYUDEPTH - Sneakpeek e.p. [Shiki Kyokai / 四季協会]

B1. Sneakpeek AKIKO KIYAMA Remix

Excerpts, fragments, edits and combinations of: 

Ströer Duo - Vietnam  
Jonathan William Scherk - Oh Softer
 Naná Vasconcelos - Dado 
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie II 
Kiyoshi Mizutani - Watering Place Under Kannogawa-Nokkoshi 
Savant - Heart of Stillness 
Matsuo Ohno - 映画｢惑星大戦争｣電子音響 
でいご娘 - クーダーカ
Knud Victor - Images 1 
Roberto Musci - Claudia, Wilhelm R. and Me 
Yasuaki Shimizu - Seiko 2 
Joel Chabade - Yum Yum 
Daniel Lentz - You Can't See the Forest 
Tomoko Sauvage - Jalatarangam Revisited
 Iannis Xenakis - Orient-Occident 
People of the Ituri Forest - Elephant Hunting Song 
Benjamin Lew / Steven Brown - Bamako Ou Ailleurs 
Michel Redolfi - Death Valley 
Martin Neukom - 18.5 
José Pivin ‎– Opéra Du Cameroun 
Andrew Pekler - Fonseca Winds (Lament)
Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Fawn 
François Bayle - Toupie Dans Le Ciel 
Duke Ellington, Max Roach & Charles Mingus - Le Fleurs Africaines

Originally broadcast on http://lyl.live/show/les-statues-meurent-aussi/

08 Sleepyhead

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