7/Dec/2013 Jinbocho, Shichoshitsu.

Ayuko Takayanagi: vocal
Koji Shibuya: piano
Yuto Ashida: euphonium
Natumi Shibuya: french horn
Daichi Minaki: ac-guitar
Chieko Yamaji: percussion
with
MC.sirafu: trumpet

母が病気になり、自分もそういう年齢になったのかという感慨と、予期せぬ事態に対する動揺が同時に押し寄せた日々のあと、大袈裟なアンセムのエンディング部が現れ、これを生かすために導入部や展開を書いた。

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/shibuya_igloo/20130507

失敗を抱きしめよう at 試聴室

7/Dec/2013 Jinbocho, Shichoshitsu.

Ayuko Takayanagi: vocal
Koji Shibuya: piano, vocal
Yuto Ashida: ac-guitar
Natumi Shibuya: french horn, fluegelhorn
Daichi Minaki: el-guitar
Chieko Yamaji: percussion
with
Atsuko Hatano: 5-strings viola

「悪魔の歌」は僕がこれまでに書いた中で最も辛辣で、悲しい歌だと思う。

お金を払って楽しむために入場したライヴでのMCで、思想的・政治的な話をしたり、曲の成り立ちをある特定のトピック（ヘイトスピーチとか）に絡めて説明したりするのは良くないという意見があるが、その主張は全くもっともな事だ。仮に「左翼（およびそう感じさせる空気）」が嫌いだという人が客席に居たなら、その人はそんなMCを聴いて嫌悪感や孤独を感じるかもしれない。そういう事への違和感の表明はバンドの内部にもあって、きっと芸術とか音楽とはまるで異なる次元の問題なのだと分かりつつも、曲の動機となった特定のトピックが芸術とか音楽と無関係ではない（または積極的に関係を持たせようとする態度を取っている）事を聴衆に気付いて欲しいから、そういう話をしてしまう。明らかに愚かな間違いを犯していると思っていても、現実に世の中で起きている、吐き気を催すような事象の問題の大きさ、深刻さに比べれば何でもない事だ、というのは乱暴な考え方だろうか。


http://d.hatena.ne.jp/shibuya_igloo/20121006

悪魔の歌 at 試聴室

from "het slechtgetemperde klavier en zwakke blokfluiten"
recorded by Peter Scott at Lady Margaret Road Studios, London, England the 10th of August 2015

150811 CLAVESIN 01

Silence is not a word we expect to hear in the world of music. Of course, there was John Cage, but normally what we expect to hear from musicians is music. For the past couple of years we have heard silence from a group difficult to describe but easy to enjoy: LE TON MITÉ. Since the fall of 2014, the group's leader, McCloud Zicmuse, has been travelling, touring, writing, playing, transforming a solo project into a group & recording a collection of songs called "Passé Composé Futur Conditionnel". The decision has been made to make public, defying the silence & at full volume, a few songs from this collection.

For those who are familiar with the quirky sounds and mini compositions of LE TON MITÉ, you may be shocked by sounds that are resolutely pop, but within, creeping to the forefront, you will hear an evolution of what you know and love. For those who know nothing about LE TON MITÉ, get ready for a quick ride, jet streaming over the United States.

And here is Mystery Trail
The song starts with stereo separation, unknown sounds reveal guitar lines & background beats that lead you on a hike through an land of enchantment, produced by Deerhoof's John Dieterich.

The artwork is by illustrator Anne Brugni. The cover reflects the artists' interpretation of the moments experienced in the "American Landscape" & the reflections documented by image and line.

Mystery Trail

NPR's Morning Edition invited listeners to contribute their own take on the Morning Edition theme song.  http://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/467352425/whats-your-take-on-morning-editions-theme  This is Half-handed Cloud's version (June 2016).

John Ringhofer: tape-manipulated instruments recorded on a ½" reel-to-reel tape recorder (tuned hairdryers, bass melodion, glockenspiel, trombone, banjo), bass guitar, Roland SH-09 monophonic analog synthesizer, percussion, hand claps, arrangement (recorded at the Bureau Of Radiophonic Research, Helsinki, Finland.) Brandon Buckner: Drum kit (recorded at Soft Hiss in Hixson, TN, U.S.A.) 



NPR's Morning Edition Theme - Tuned Hairdryer, Tape Manipulation, & Synthesizer #morningeditiontheme

根のこころ 20170312

recorded at Sendai 2008.
from 7"EP "Kumokokudo" (2012)
cover of LE TON MITÉ (McCloud Zicmuse)

Koji Shibuya: cello, arrangement, Japanese lyric
Ayuko Takayanagi: narration, mix
Natsumi Kudo: french horn
Miyuki Asakura: violin
Chieko Yamaji: percussion

透き (Breche)

music by Erik Satie
recorded at arrondissement+Cy, Sendai 9/Nov/2017
"eternal calamity" are;
Koji Shibuya vocal, bass
Daichi Minaki el-guitar
Yuka Sato clarinet
Hiroshi Aihara trombone
McCloud Zicmuse percussion, recorder

thanks to Soichi Takahashi (recorded & photo)

Vexations by eternal calamity

M'intent-ho aclarar
Si portes una branqueta a casa
i la mimes
Es convertirà
en un tronc
i quan l'assotis
cagarà regals.
És això correcte?
Esper-ho que si
perquè 
tinc moltes branques a casa

Caga Tio

LE TON MITÉ

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