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Undercurrents

For A While

2013.12.12 release
Pawn / Hideki Umezawa "Prepared Garden with Marihiko Hara & Shohei Amimori" sample from upcoming album "Portrait Re:Sketch" PFCD39

Pawn / Hideki Umezawa - 梅沢英樹による2年振り、6枚目となるアルバム『Portrait Re:Sketch』は、前作『Tone Sketch』の素材をベースに総勢15名の参加者を迎え、完全に再構築された作品。非常に幅広い内容となっており、中でもDumb Type高谷史郎のプロジェクトメンバーとして活動する原摩利彦、2013年度の日本音楽コンクール1位を獲得したことでも注目を集めている現代/電子音楽家の網守将平との共作曲は電子/現代音楽を跨ぐ要注目作となっている。

またヴォーカリストとしてCokiyu、Moskitoo、fraqsea（Shelling）、柳本奈都子（rimacona）が参加。
lycoriscoris、Seiji Takahashiといった要注目の電子音楽家との共作楽曲、自らがボーカルをとる楽曲など、マルチなトラックメイキングが披露されている。
海外からはIan Hawgood、K-conjogが参加。
加え、世界基準で活躍するVegpher、Avec Avec、Quarta 330、Simon Scottによるリミックスも収録。

マスタリングはアーティストとしても高い評価を得る柏大輔が担当。
アートワークは斉藤和義やgroup_inouなどのミュージックビデオも手掛ける
画家/イラストレーターのオオクボリュウが担当。

01. Koen Park
02. Re:Grid Structure
03. Meteorite Shards feat. Cokiyu
04. Prepared Garden with Marihiko Hara & Shohei Amimori
05. Our Trails with lycoriscoris
06. Tone & Color feat. Natsuko Yanagimoto
07. Dotted Distance
08. QopqoP
09. Discolored Photograph (Reconstructed by Seiji Takahashi)
10. Re:Thinking About Robin
11. Star Shards (Quarta 330 Remix)
12. Tone Sketch (Vegpher Remix)
13. Tone & Color (Avec Avec Remix)
14. Star Shards (Simon Scott Remix)

Pawn / Hideki Umezawa - 梅沢英樹
1986年生まれ、東京都在住。電子音楽を軸に国内外より10の音楽作品を発表。近作として3つのアルバム『Tone Sketch』『Glimmer of Sunlight』『Suido-Kan』がある。そして2013年12月、6枚目となる最新アルバム『Portrait Re:Sketch』をPROGRESSIVE FOrMよりリリースする。
https://soundcloud.com/hideki-umezawa

12.12out! Pawn/Hideki Umezawa "Prepared Garden with Marihiko Hara & Shohei Amimori"

Release date: 27.05.2022

Martin Taxt – microtonal tuba, hand bells, composition
Rolf Erik Nystrøm – alto saxophone, hand bells
Laura Marie Rueslåtten – organ, hand bells
Inga Margrete Aas – double bass, hand bells
Peder Simonsen – microtonal tuba, hand bells, modular synthesizer

Second Room is Taxt’s second album in a series of works investigating possible relations between music and architecture. In this work written for alto saxophone, two microtonal tubas, double bass, church organ, hand bells and modular synthesizers he is inspired by the Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto, and his ideas on different concepts of living. 

In a lecture at the Harvard University in 2011, Fujimoto sets up a comparison between the nest and the cave, as two fundamentally different ways of living concepts. Whereas the nest represents safety, conformity and predictability, a space designed for people, the cave on the other side represents the unknown, a naturally shaped space, not designed for the purpose of living. It can be uncomfortable to enter the dark cave but spending time inside one can gradually start to adapt to the space. By rethinking our concept of space and the relation between space and human body we will eventually discover different functionalities within the cave and innovate new functions in the already designed space. 

(…)A grid system with 36 pitches was the starting point of the composing process. Imagining the grid as a cave, I made 3 different paths through the grid as if I was exploring the cave. These three melodies became the outline for this composition. On ‘Disruption, disjunction, deconstruction’ the musicians are exploring the 36 pitches independently, as if, quoting Fujimoto; finding their own small favourite comfortable places inside the natural cave(…)

Martin Taxt: disruption, disjunction, deconstruction from Second Room

new release https://dagshenma.bandcamp.com/album/eleven-ooparts

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Lose Me (Outro)

sleep in nothingness, 2018 

// sounds heard 
samples from the Guimet's archival LP copy of 'Japanese masterpieces for the shakuhachi' (Lyrichord_MX4205_1989) 
+ artists own field recording of train ride in the monastic region of Koyasan Japan, clarinet, sine tones, voice, amplified objects, sferics, and a google-translate/text-to-speech recording of the album liner notes. // 

In a dream he found himself floating in a boat. Suddenly thick mist rolled down the sky and blocked his view of the moon. On hearing the moving melody of a flute, he reached out for his favourite bamboo flute to accompany the ethereal melody. The music is long and simple, and the listener is expected to forget everything and "sleep in nothingness".
-the dream of a priest named Kyochiku in the 12th Century while meditating at a temple in Nara (as cited in the album liner notes).

composed for performance at the Guimet Museum in Paris on Feb 03 2018, curated by the French label Tsuku Boshi.

sleep in nothingness

For it's 4th instalment and final addition to the May batch, Vaknar is enthralled to present 60+ minutes of selected organ music over two set of tapes, all coming courtesy of none other then Danish collage artist and musician øjeRum.

øjeRum has been a favourite of the Vaagner/Vaknar hub for years, and it is with the utmost honour that we were given the chance to comply some old, new and unreleased organ works for this upcoming release, all of which will be presented via a double cassette box that will include a riso printed, fold out sleeve and feature work by both, the label and the artist himself.

øjeRum - 'Selected Organ Works' will be made available around late May.

VAK04 | øjeRum - Selected Organ Works

A piece commissioned by radio Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, Sept. 2019.

'Tiempo, Piedra, Insecto' ('Time, Stone, Insect') is a piece for metal objects, small ceramics, mountain stone and vibrating strings. Taking the choice of materials and profoundly simple gestures as a point of departure, forms of repetition, addition and subtraction are associated as a principle of perpetual movement, engendering a sound space that juxtaposes the autonomy of elements and a perceptive total union — a union that takes place in what the listener hears.

This piece, with no aspirations to an exclusivity of sound, can be listened to in every way imaginable: in silence, with open windows and sounds; in the morning, afternoon, evening, at night – although no headphones and letting the air circulate is recommended.     

The title of the work takes its name from three words written in a notepad after walking around a vast park in a big city, and a conversation on the perception and moderation of time; movement, existence, the animate and that which is considered inanimate. When we say stones do not move, perhaps it is because we don’t see them move, but without that really meaning that they do not move.

https://radio.museoreinasofia.es/en/clara-asis

Tiempo, Piedra, Insecto

Taken from the album 'Death is perfection, everything else is relative' released as LP and Digital.

France Jobin 'p (excerpt)' (EMEGO 276)

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Music is an innately social activity, even music created in the interest of self-reflection and meditation. Early in 2020, Australia's response to the rapidly evolving Covid-19 pandemic had the music community close its doors not only to the outside world, but to each other. By order of a government directive, all social gatherings - including live music performance, group rehearsal and collaborative recording - were to cease around the country.

It was unclear at the start of the pandemic what role peer-to-peer interaction played in the lives of Australian composers. Many already worked from home, well versed in the art of creating spaces of solitude in cities, of building environments conducive to self-reflection, innovation and creativity.

But how much do we really depend upon our community? In a world where self-isolation is no longer a personal choice, will creativity flounder, or flourish?

The recordings in this series are a document of these months and these reflections. A meditation on the way we exist and create, both together and in solitude. As with any creative work, it is up to the listener to draw what they will from these works, and to carry this forward into the world they now inhabit.

New releases will be added ongoing 1 by 1, fortnightly from October. Depending on how long this V2 lockdown goes, we may add even more. Who knows, we may continue this until 2022, forever in hibernation and isolation, yet not isolated. 

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