Name: Celer - Wishes Would Be Grand If Only They Came True (Excerpt) by constellationtatsu
Duration: 7 min 21 s
Description: A track from the album I Wish You Could out 11/13/18 on Constellation Tatsu.

Worblin

these days

12th February

Cyclops by Dionisaf (@dionis-afonichev)

Limited Edition CD available at:
https://atlantearecords.bandcamp.com/album/ulysses

Mastering by Dionis Afonichev
Cover artwork by Å Asher Yates

Cyclops

Dionisaf - Сyclops

Vroedmeesterpadden koor in Valkenboskwartier, Den Haag.
Opgenomen vanaf balkon met Zoom F6, NTG3 & Line audio CM4 in ORTF
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vroedmeesterpad

Midwife toad choir in Valkenboskwartier, The Hague
Recorded from balkony with Zoom F6, NTG3 & Line audio CM4 in ORTF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_midwife_toad

Vroedmeesterpad / Common midwife toad

Tatsuro Murakami is an artist originally from Tokyo, Japan, who spent several years Brazil before returning home, to rural Japan. After emerging from his earlier work as part of a progressive rock band, Tatsuro began to make Ambient and Experimental music. In the year that he graduated from a conservatory in São Paulo, he released his debut album on La Petite Chambre, a label from Belo Horizonte in Brazil. A few years later ‘The Sound of Living Things’ followed, on Italian imprint ROHS! Records. He has also headlined with many well-known compatriots including Shuta Yasukochi, Rhucle, Ken Ikeda and Ayami Suzuki.

Tatsuro’s work draws inspiration from places and feelings, whether this be photography, film or personal accounts and experiences. Living in Latin America and recollecting his time in rural Japan, nature has become a fixation for this artist, bleeding into the concepts of his work. A wide and varied taste covering styles such as Brazilian Choro music, Ambient and Jazz combined with his studies and performances as part of bands such as Stone Music, has led to a beautiful combination of sounds and textures in his solo work.

‘An Imaginary Autumn’ is a set of seven reflections, transcribing the eight years’ worth of Japanese Autumns that Tatsuro was not able to experience, due to personal circumstances. He aimed to create something as beautiful as the autumn leaves in Japan, which he was unable to see for himself. He stepped outside one December, only to be greeted by the cold winter wind as Autumn had already disappeared.

Tracks range in mood and composition, with opening piece ‘Slow Dance’ reflecting chord progressions that you might hear in Choro or Jazz music. ‘Liquefied Surface’ decodes the randomised melodies of a small modular synth kit before ‘In Her Absence’ warps electric guitar and bass into unrecognisable instrument sounds. Centrepiece ‘Misplaced Dream’ takes a solo guitar motif recorded to cassette tape, adorned by further iterations of minimal guitar sounds and happenstance tape-processing errors. The absorbing ‘Swimming in the Dark’ and its satisfying hiss follows, using a recording from a dark and rainy day in Tokyo. ‘Dialogue with a Mountain’ haunts, as Tatsuro’s first toy keyboard is turned into a droning soundscape, fed through some effects pedals. Closing piece ‘Rising of Something Brilliant’ places an electric guitar loop alongside some classical guitar chords, with cascading echoes of subtle overdrives and faded riffs ebbing into a melancholy bliss.

‘An Imaginary Autumn’ is the second album to utilise our new record wallet style format, with artwork provided by Tatsuro’s long-time collaborator Anais-karenin. The photography here perfectly depicts the idyllic Japanese autumns that Tatsuro had been starved of for so long, until finally he was reunited in 2021.

Music & Mix by Tatsuro Murakami
Mastering by James Edward Armstrong
Original Photography by Anais-karenin

An Imaginary Autumn

wlr143 Tatsuro Murakami - An Imaginary Autumn

Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat joins PTO to discuss South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice and the utility of international law in struggles for global justice. With its roots in providing justification for European settler colonialism in the Americas, can International law ever serve the cause of liberatory movements? Is there a danger that in winning legal victories in forums such as the United Nations and the International Court of Justice, that radical causes - such as the Palestine liberation movement -  can come to prioritise endorsement by prestigious multilateral bodies at the expense of other, and potentially more effective strategies? And how strong are the respective cases of South Africa and Israel in their dispute at the ICJ - and what is the legal, political, and moral significance of the case that South Africa has brought? Those are just some of the questions that Noura Erakat addresses in today's episode.

Israel in the dock w/ Noura Erakat

Before the left brain logically determined and categorized things, everything was one.

Pure experience, it is a state where the subject and the object are undivided and there are no boundaries.

1. Ameagari (雨上がり) - After the rain
2. Rakusui (落水) - Waterfall
3. Usuakari (薄明かり) - Dim light
4. Yudaneru (委ねる) - Entrust
5. Syouyou (逍遥) - Saunter
6. Haiiro (灰色) - Gray
7. Shibuki (飛沫) - Splash

All tracks are produced by Hidekazu Imashige
Cover Photo by Hidekazu Imashige

Pure Experience

Ameagari

Usuakari

A track from the album I Wish You Could out 11/13/18 on Constellation Tatsu.

Celer - Wishes Would Be Grand If Only They Came True (Excerpt)

reaching across the atlantic in one direction,
across the pacific in the other direction

the full experience: https://youtu.be/jcFJqFeuTNw
visuals by dylan schmid

in collaboration with k wilson from down under
kwils soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kwilsonk

stems (in collab with kwils)

adventurous with spiritual artistic sensibilities

Celer - Wishes Would Be Grand If Only They Came True (Excerpt)

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