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nalu


2022.05.26 Release

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01 aioi

02 kamiyus

03 nikarakoi

04 hipo

05 tui tui tui

06 karico

07 areoka

08 ola

09 tida

10 ipara

11 peace





Sounds by Kenji Kihara

Voice and Ukulele, Recorded by nalu

Piano and Keyboards by Kenji Kihara

Arranged and Mixed, Mastered by Kenji Kihara



Art Work by Ruri Haikata

Design, Art direction : Misato Shimamura (studio nines)

nalu - O   (Album Preview)

Conceived as a commissioned work for Japanese integrated art brand WARA, Hiroshima-based composer Meitei created SHITSURAI as music to embody the collective’s ideology centered around age-old Japanese traditions and sensibilities. Meitei, whose real name is Daisuke Fujita, and WARA’s artistic director Eri searched for a new dialog with sounds reflecting the Japanese aesthetics of 24 sekki that mark nature’s perpetual cycle of ever-changing seasons. Meitei’s entrancing ode to the 24 sekki expresses Japanese lyricism through minimal piano, environmental and electronic sounds. 

In Japan, each of the four seasons of the year is experienced in six phases and all have their own distinct characters. Unveiling a reverence for the Japanese passage of time, the 4-track EP explores the ebb and flow through the twenty-four seasons of Japan as nature awakens, blossoms, matures and settles into a slum from the beginning of spring (Risshun), the first day of summer (Rikka), the first day of autumn (Risshū) to the beginning of winter (Rittō). 

Symbolizing the Japanese concept of shitsurai (to arrange) with an emphasis on ma (the sound of silence), the compositions were designed as a collage of delicate piano sounds that the composer played, recorded and subsequently meticulously cut and rearranged. The piano serves as a metaphor for the artist’s individual existence in the shifting landscape of time throughout the record. With each passing season, surrounded by new environments and colors, various textures were drawn with subtle glitchy electronics embedded within natural sounds, gradually unfolding as the album unravels. Transient, sparse and boundless at once, for fifteen minutes, the four tracks cycle through small variations, the album paradoxically, expands with each listening loop: it’s one that can be listened to endlessly.

With this album, Meitei’s unique sound universe is observed from yet another new perspective, as the artist has demonstrated in prior albums. SHITSURAI exemplifies Meitei’s brilliance with motifs, minimalism and movement as he seeks to meet a new realm of sonic romanticism in his never-ending quest to reinterpret and recapture lost Japanese moods.

Meitei releases SHITSURAI at the beginning of spring, 4 February 2023, on all digital formats. Gen Tanabe mastered this record at Studio Camel House in Japan.

Meitei - Risshun (SHITSURAI, 2023)

津田貴司『湿度計』2020年度リイシュー盤。

リリース元：PNdB atelier
定価：￥2,420（税込み）
品番：hoflicd14

ⓒ 2008 Takashi Tsuda All Rights Reserved
originally released by STARNET MUZIK as STARNET MUZIK 014
executive producer : Kohshi Baba
reissued by PNdB atelier
jacket design : Kaname Kawamoto
ⓟ 2020 Takashi Tsuda All Rights Reserved

湿度計 trailer

345 PLUS

Movement I composed by Sławek Jaskułke
Sławek Jaskułke - grand piano
Piotr Wyleżoł - grand piano

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Website:
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®© Slawek Jaskulke

Sławek Jaskułke & Piotr Wyleżoł - Movement I

Pieni, Machione’s second album, means “small” or “little”. This title was inspired by an essay written by Japanese author. In the same fashion that Machione’s first album portrayed the western area of Tokyo, the artist again plays an array of instruments, such as the gut guitar, clarinet, banjo, and reed organ. His compositions and musical stylings show a deep emotional bond to pieces of scattered memories – scenes, and adventures from his childhood, and the loneliness of living alone in Tokyo. Machione precisely paints musical visions of each, and together, they reveal his persona in this evocative album. A child’s toy boat made of bamboo leaves drifts down a small rivulet, an exploration by following a rope between the steel towers. The tones from a music box sprinkled through the album evoke images of colorful pebbles. A prepared guitar’s song paints a pattern of blurred light. TC2610, repsold, water harp bell, broken, untuned and an old, decorative object…the songs that these unique instruments sing fluidizes our senses, and swings our imaginations. This panorama exhibited before us by Machione are scenes from a small town, one that you might have visited some time.

Machinone - Hanayoubi / 花曜日

This collection is outtakes from "monologue". 
https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/album/harvest

Attention: If you already got or reserve vinyl version "monologue" from Qrates, it is already included as bonus tracks of the vinyl.

Harvest

SOUND SEA SOUND WATER

海から聴こえてくるのは
水面に映る空と
風が運ぶ波の音

水が伝えてくれるのは
輝く波が雲になり
豊かな雨が私たちを潤すこと

かつて生まれた言葉
新しい時代 ”new age” となった今
どんな時にも
すこやかな海を感じさせてくれる
この大きな懐のような場所で
海への憧れと
そこに還ってゆくものに想いを馳せ
心のままに響かせてみたいと思います
credits
releases June 17, 2020

香り / WELT Yuki Kawasaki
デザインと遊び / Sachiko Kihara
音 / Kenji Kihara

Sound Sea Sound Water - Preview

~ LAAPS 005 ~ [SEQ.01 - LP05]

artists : Tomotsugu Nakamura
album : Literature
duration : 40.24 mn
 date : July 13th, 2020

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / yellow colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 22th, 2020 / official release : July 13th, 2020

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All songs written and produced by Tomotsugu Nakamura

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Nicola Odemann
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/
http://tomotsugu.tumblr.com/

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℗ & © 2 0 2 0 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 0 5

Tomotsugu Nakamura - Literature (album preview)

◆01. Rêverie : 0’00” //◆02. First : 0’30” //◆03. dew : 0’44” //◆04. rêve : 1’09” //◆05. Data Taken Over Under Rating : 1’26” //◆06. koharu : 1’51” //◆07. First Love : 2’19” //◆08. Seventy Seven Years Later : 2’44” //◆09. Leaving : 3’05” //◆10. String Quintet No. 1 in E flat major II. Larghetto affettuoso : 3’26” //◆11. SENNE I : 3’55” //◆12. Clair Du Lune : 4’24” 
HP: www.resonancemusic.jp/
online store: www.rmusic.base.ec/

rêve 

reve demo mixed by hiroshi yoshimoto(bar buenos aires / resonance music)

雨と休日12周年に合わせて作られたアルバム、Sakanoshita Norimasa『meditation in the shelf』より7曲目「1227 Eflat - Aflat Slowtempo」の抜粋音源です。アルバムの内容が一番よく表れている楽曲です。

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Sakanoshita Norimasa / 1227 Eflat - Aflat Slowtempo [excerpt]

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each release start with the end of the previous one.
in sounds and visually. 
an exquisite corpse with 100 releases which will make the loop.
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Tomotsugu Nakamura - Literature (album preview)

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