Isik Kural - film festival

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Isik Kural - film festival

Akari is the third album from Tokyo duo Illuha. Following 2011’s debut Shizuku (12k1067) and 2013’s Interstices (12k2028), Akari takes the next artistic step for the band. While Shizuku was recorded in the US and completed separately by the artists, Interstices captured the duo creating their exceptionally detailed music together live during a Japaneses tour. Akari, in turn, is the first studio album where Illuha recorded and mixed together, throughout the entire process. The beautiful st-robo studio in Tokyo put a collection of amazing equipment at their fingertips, from vintage mics and outboard gear to a vast collection of instruments, both acoustic and electronic. Their writing sessions were numerous and long with details meticulously obsessed over for nearly a year. The result is the most bewildering music Illuha have created to date. An album swimming with the most delicately tactile sounds and instrumentation that draws the listener in with hushed, motionless attention.

While Illuha’s Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date are often drawn to the most sparse notes of Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos, acoustic grand piano and guitar, the breadth of instrumentation is partially what makes Akari so abosrbing. They have succeeded in creating their own universe of sound, so beautifully recorded, where each element not only has its own space but connects and interacts so fluidly with the other sounds. It is as if they are placed perfectly by nature, the compositions are fluid and organic, a far cry from anything calculated or structured. It is this open space that the music exists in which in turn defines the music itself. There is ample room to breathe within this forest of gentle tines, bubbling analogue synthesizers, clicking percussion and quiet field recordings. This is subtlety at its most refined; hushed without being saccharine, distant without being morose.

Akari is the Japanese word for light. Conceputally the duo used this word as a guide, as if they were searching through the dark, trying to keep the light alive, as if one is cradling a candle doing everything in their power to keep it alight in a storm. It is this almost visceral sense of sheltering, of protection, that gives Akari a very human and personal sound whose intensely deep focus is as impressive as it is arresting.

Akari

Structures Based on the Plasticity of Sphere Surface Tension

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Structures Based On The Plasticity Of Sphere Surface Tension

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music : The Humble Bee & Offthesky
artwork : Mikael Siirilä
album : Here In, Absence
duration : 38.29 mn
date : February 29th 2024

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craig tattersall : spaces, notes, & tapes
jason corder : arrangement, mixing, synths, percussive textures, glockenspiel, and vibraphone
shilpi gupta : flute
rin howell : voice

Mastered by Ian Hawgood
Artwork by Mikael Siirilä
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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pre-order : February 02nd, 2024 / official release : February 29th, 2024

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The Humble Bee & Offthesky - Senses

In the wet heat of a Japanese summer, legendary musician Ryuichi Sakamoto was joined on stage by Taylor Deupree and the duo of Corey Fuller and Tomoyoshi Date, known as Illuha. The Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media hosted the event as part of their 10 year anniversary which also included a captivating installation by Sakamoto called Forest Symphony. The days surrounding the concert brought the artists together for food, talk and exploration. Informal but meaningful moods that prepared them for performing together.

The performance, an improvised set for piano, guitar, pump organ, and synthesizers, ended up affecting the artists in a deep way. The four, having never played all together before, were taken aback by the level of listening and restraint that flowed between them. The audience sat in a breathless silence, the music offering a respite from the thick July air. As the last hushed note faded into blackness the artists knew right away it had been a deep journey.

It is a fortunate event when a moment like this is captured, as this concert was ( recorded in high quality DSD). Perpetual, named for the eternal and ageless quality of the music, is presented in three movements that traverse from soft layers of synthesizer and processed guitar, to open, airy sections of prepared piano and silence, to finally coming to rest in a most hauntingly delicate lullaby of lonely piano, crackling found objects and field recordings and tones suspended like mists.

Perpetual not only surrounds us and stretches through time but collects that expanse into a single memory, a record of a brief moment where time stood still and four musicians merged into one.

Perpetual

Movement, 3

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"Delta" is an improvised soundscape from July 2025. It's both calming and a bit disconcerting at the same time. Ir would probably depend on your existing mood. #SoundCloud ☁️

Delta

Delta Δ (Yamaha EX 7 Synthesizer Keyboard, Recorded July 2025)

Everything It Was

From "We Can Sleep Now", available on cassette and digital from Unifactor:
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The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

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music : The Humble Bee & Offthesky
photography : Nieves Mingueza
album/book : All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains
duration : 42.18 mn
date : July 2019

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Jason Corder: vibes, arrangement, mixing, mastering
Craig Tattersall : piano, guitar, vibes, synths, tape loops
Cody Yantis : sax
Julie Slater : viola
Rin Howell : voice
Jiah Shin : cello
Esther Hernandez : flute

Mastered by Jason Corder
Artwork by Nieves Mingueza
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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pre-order : June 17th, 2019 / official release : July 15th, 2019

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The Humble Bee & Offthesky - For Her Breath Is On All That Hath Life

From the album "Tea Notes". All music by Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren. Recorded january to march 2018 in Antwerpen and London. Mixed and edited by David Edren at ll150. Mastered & cut by Anne Taegert at Dubplates & Mastering Berlin.  Artwork by Victor Robyn. Vinyl + digital release on Ekster: 12th of September 2019: https://eksterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/tea-notes

Tea Notes

Jatinder Singh Durhailay & David Edren: "Shincha"

From the album Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two), released on Ndeya 24 July 2020 https://ndeya.ffm.to/seeingthroughsound

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The Mountain (cassette out now on Unifactor)

Endurance