Collectedness// September 17, 2021

From "Microphone Permission" LP, Editions Mego, 2020
https://jasmineguffond.bandcamp.com/album/microphone-permission

An Utterly Dark Spot

Holy Hive

Story Of My Life

‘Horse+ (Don’t Mind The Horse)’ paints the picture of being on the road to somewhere. Whether it be through the desert heat, the cold vastness of outer space, or through the journey of life, it’s good to sometimes take a moment to have a few deep breaths, absorb your surroundings and open your heart.

Buy-link: idol.lnk.to/laika

Laika

Horse+ (Don't Mind the Horse)

Dunkel

Space 1.8

Space 1

LYRIC VID: https://youtu.be/yVW3oWsDe7Q

BANDCAMP: https://bbblue.bandcamp.com/track/wildfire

Wildfire

Lea B + Ben Vida

from the album YELLOW BELL, Sonic Pieces, 2016

Core Notions

https://carpi-records.bandcamp.com/album/wash-then-dance-never-soon

Never Soon

Sunny Dunes - Silly Me (Wash, Then Dance / Never Soon - Carpi Records - 2013)

Serge & Mondriaan

Fahmi Mursyid - Lautan

From TRACED, Sonic Pieces, Pattern Series, 2017

Boundless Informant

"Shuta Yasukochi is an artist from the Saitama prefecture in Japan. 
‘In full Bloom’ his first outing on Vaknar, Shuta rekindles the nature themed formula found in previous works, both sonically and in name, while expanding on the thematic by presenting the album in a story like arc, slowly unfolding throughout the duration of the album."

https://soundcloud.com/shuta-yasukochi
https://soundcloud.com/vaagner

Premiere: Shuta Yasukochi - Particle [Vaknar]

Pre-order available now. Release date: Jan 31, 2020

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Deep Listening, we offer you the definitive double LP combining the classic, complete original 1989 release with selected tracks from the Deep Listening Band’s 1991 album The Readymade Boomerang.

This elegant double LP is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with original and updated recollections from the performers, the recording engineer and a mesostic from John Cage, to which these recordings are inextricably linked.

Recorded in a cistern, this double LP reverberates with brilliant sonic clarity and masterfully improvised performances combining live electronics, vocals, trombone and accordion. Deep Listening is a classic in the fields of improvisation, minimalism, ambient/drone and modern classical.

Listen with attentiveness, listen while lying down, listen with headphones - as recording engineer Al Swanson entices the listener to become a virtual performer in selecting the many different ways to perceive these phenomenal tracks. Whatever you do, listen deeply.

Oliveros - Dempster - Panaiotis "Deep Listening" 2LP - 30th Anniversary & First time on vinyl!

FUJI||||||||||TA, iki, LP

Release date - April 3th 2020
Catalogue nr. - HG2003
Format - Ltd. Vinyl/digital

https://hallowground.bandcamp.com

Credits:
All music composed, played and Recorded by FUJI|||||||||||TA
Mixed by Makoto Oshiro
Mastering by Lawrence English at Negative Space

Tracklist:
1) keshiki (09:42)
2) nNami (09:20)
3) osoi (10:12)
4) sukima (07:03)

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"FUJI|||||||||||TA has created a work that operates as a beautiful nexus between the material and immaterial qualities of music. 
It is a lived-in dreamscape of deep, rich tonality. A remarkable debut."
(Lawrence English)

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FUJI||||||||||TA, real name FUJITA Yosuke, is a Japanese sound artist. After countless performances in different contexts either solo or along artists such as Yamantaka Eye of Boredoms and the legendary avant-gardist SUZUKI Akio as well as a slew of solo releases, his LP »iki« (»breath«) for the Swiss-based Hallow Ground label is his first in nine years. On these four pieces, Fujita explores the idiosyncratic sound qualities of the pipe organ he has built all by himself in 2009. This - quite literally unique - instrument features only eleven pipes, an air pump called »fuigo« which was modelled after a traditional blacksmith’s one and has no keyboard. Inspired by traditional gagaku, it was designed to evoke rich landscapes rather function as just another musical instrument. While his previous records saw FUJI||||||||||TA explore various modes of abstraction, »iki« is a highly emotive yet meditative album, musically restrained but full of imagination.

»keshiki« immediately sets the mood for this record with a long sustained note that is punctuated by the soft clicking of Fujita’s air pump. Once Fujita carefully starts bringing melodies into play, the interplay of the drone and the discrete rhythmic element gives way to a fuller harmonic whole. »keshiki« is an intimate piece that perfectly displays the artist’s knack for painting a rich sonic picture with only a reduced palette. »nNami« juxtaposes the sounds of two pipes that are out of tune with each other, creating a hypnotic sensation of ebb and flow (»nami« translates to »wave«) that is full of subtle friction. It’s a staggering artistic interpretation of the instrument’s material characteristics. Clocking in at ten minutes, »osoi« (»slow«) is an overall melancholic piece that explores the relationship between different tone colours through minute changes in pace. Finally, »sukima« (»blank space«) is the shortest and the most rhythmic piece of the four. Composed of only staccati, it is a masterful exploration of the harmonic qualities Fujita’s stunning pipe organ has to offer.

Recorded between September and December of 2019, »iki« marks the culmination of FUJI||||||||||TA’s ten-year-long work with the instrument that he had built without any prior knowledge and started to teach himself to play without a manual in sight. It is, in other words, the unique result of a unique musical mind paying his dues to the uniqueness of his own creation; introspective and welcoming at once.

FUJI||||||||||TA - osoi (HG2003)

Part of Longform Editions (LE053)- produced, mixed and mastered by Carmen Villain. Flute performed by Johanna Scheie Orellana.

Affection In A Time Of Crisis (LE053)

Tear Vial

From the upcoming album "A Visible Length of Light" out on 4/16/21. Available at https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/

An Arc of the Horizon

Sound and Vision

Sound and Vision (Instrumental)

Matière Mémoire presents the MMXX Series.
In anticipation of the year 2020, Matière Mémoire asked 20 great artists to create an original 20 minutes piece and an artwork.

MMXX Kassel Jaeger - Vol Sombre (Excerpt)

Los Angeles Based/Manila Roots Arts and Culture Curator/Programmer, Filmmaker, DJ, & Filipino music and film advocate.

Collectedness// September 17, 2021

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