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Release info:

Palto Flats & WRWTFWW Records are excited to announce the forthcoming highly-anticipated reissue of Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's sought after and timeless ambient / minimal album "Through The Looking Glass", originally released in 1983 by RCA Japan. 

The fully licensed reissue will be available in March as a single 33rpm LP and a limited 45rpm DLP, both cut directly from the original studio reels (AAA). 
It will be also availalble for the first time in CD format.

Midori will be touring Europe in April to support the album reissue, with plans for additional touring in other territories.

Dates:

4/4 Copenhagen DK Jazzhouse
http://www.jazzhouse.dk/jazzklub/midori-takada-jp

6/4 Glasgow UK Counterflows Festival
https://counterflows.com/midori-takada/

7/4 Amsterdam NL World Minimal Music Festival
https://www.muziekgebouw.nl/agenda/Concerten/5309/The_Master_Musicians_of_Jajouka_led_by_Bachir_Attar_Midori_Takada/World_Roots/

9/4 Gent BE Full Moon Healing Festival
http://www.vooruit.be

11/4 London UK Cafe Oto
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/midori-takada/

Bio:

Midori Takada is a composer, multi percussionist, and theater artist renowned in Japanese vanguard circles. She will tour Europe this spring.

Midori released two solo albums: "Through The Looking Glass" and "Tree Of Life," and wrote music for Tadashi Suzuki's theater plays. Her hypnotic, minimalist music is based in the concept of coherence between sound and the human body. She performs solo on marimba and other percussion instruments.

She debuted on the scene of Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester Berlin just after graduation from Tokyo University of the Arts in 1974. She continued her career with solo concerts in Japan and abroad.

In the 1980s Midori began to explore the traditional music of Asia and Africa. Her fascination resulted in joint projects with Kakraba Lobi from Ghana, Lamine Konte from Senegal, Farafina Band from Burkina Faso, and Korean musicians: zither player Chi Seong-Ja, flute player Won-Il, and saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan. She also led Mkwaju Ensemble's innovative percussion project and still performs with free-jazz band Ton-Klami with saxophone player Kang Tae-Hwan and jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh.

In the past 20 years, Midori Takada spent more time in theaters than in concert halls – composing and performing for live music for theater. She has worked with Tadashi Suzuki and his Suzuki Company of Toga on their adaptations of "Electra" and "King Lear."

Takada's compositions have a remarkable way of affecting the imagination. Her minimalist, contemplative music is filled with the concept of infinity and reminds of a moon voyage, falling stars, a journey into the ocean, or a walk in the garden. The trans melodies, initially simple, begin to loop and splinter, their rhythm breaking and thickening, slowly drawing the listener into another reality.

Every live performance Midori Takada gives is unique and prepared especially for that occasion.

Through The Looking Glass

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4 Midori Takada - Catastrophe  Σ (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

3 Midori Takada - Trompe - L'oeil (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

2 Midori Takada - Crossing (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

1 Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau's Dream (Reel-2-Reel to Digital conversion)

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A1 It Could Happen To You

B3 My Funny Valentine ReMST

B2 Horizon

B1 Whats Ne

A3 Baron Patato Blues

A2 My Foolish Heart

A1 Mellow Dream

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Kadebostany - La Saeta

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Musique Pour La Danse is proud to present Coil's unreleased soundtrack for the VHS only, pre-internet, sexual education documentary entitled "The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex" released in 1992. Members for this project are John Balance, Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson and Danny Hyde.

The OST, to quote John Balance's interview for Compulsion Online, "is [a] slightly new agey, progressive house type thing".

Another way to approach it is as a delightful collection of balearic beats, smoking jazz not far removed from Badalamenti's work with David Lynch, somewhat of an ambient house album for your home listening and early morning sunrise dances, Coil style.

Taken from the original masters provided by Danny Hyde, "The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex" features a new sexy edit of the main theme. Bonuses  "Nasa-Arab" and "Omlagus Garfungiloops" are taken from the 1992 CD only "Stolen And Contaminated Songs", both being original versions of the radically reworked (for the OST) "Nasa-Arab 2" and "Exploding Frogs" in order to balance the whole album and extend the listening pleasure.

Artist: Coil
Title: The Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex +2 (OST)
Label: Musique Pour La Danse
Genre: Electronic
Files under: New Age, Ambient House, Jazz
Cat#: MPD018
Format: Limited Purple LP, Digipack CD & Digital
Barcode: 5414165108368 (CD) 5414165108344 (LP)

For fans of: Coil, PTV, TG, FSOL, The Orb

Tracklisting:
1. "Alternative Theme From Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex" – 8:13
2. "Exploding Frogs" – 8:40
3. "Nasa-Arab 2" – 4:12
4. "Nasa-Arab"* – 10:59
5. "Omlagus Garfungiloops"* 4:25
6. "Theme From Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex" – 7:49

The Gay Man's Guide Theme  (Reconstruction)

Coil - Theme From Gay Man's Guide To Safer Sex

WRWTFWW Records is honored to announce the much anticipated reissue of Satoshi Ashikawa’s undeniable classic of Japanese environmental/ambient/minimalism, Still Way (Wave Notation 2). The album, available on vinyl (first time since 1982) and digipack CD (with one bonus track), comes with a cover artwork by Hiroshi Yoshimura and liner notes by Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa himself, and Irish producer Gareth Quinn Redmond (whose Still Way-inspired album Laistigh den Ghleo is being released simultaneously on WRWTFWW).

Initially released in 1982 as part of the Wave Notation series*, Still Way is, without a doubt, a seminal Japanese environmental/ambient/minimalism album, often mentioned alongside Midori Takada’s Through Looking Glass and Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green as one of the genre’s most important pieces.

"Like the moment of stillness, after the wind passes through the garden, when the rain stops for a brief second…" Notably inspired by Erik Satie’s Furniture Music and Brian Eno’s ambient work, Satoshi Ashikawa aimed to compose music "intended to be listened to in a casual manner, as a musical landscape or a sound object…not something that would stimulate listeners but music that should drift like smoke and become part of the environment."

The result is simply phenomenal, subtle minimalism and emotional elegance exquisitely orchestrated by Satoshi Ishikawa and his team consisting of his wife Masami Ashikawa (on flute), Midori Takada (on vibraphone), Yuko Utsumi (on harp), Tomoko Sono (on piano), and Junko Arase (on vibraphone).

In conjunction with Still Way, WRWTFWW is releasing Laistigh den Ghleo, a companion album by Irish ambient/minimalist composer Gareth Quinn Redmond, inspired by Ashikawa’s approach.

*The Wave Notation series also includes Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Music For Nine Postcards album.

芦川聡 Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Way (Wave Notation 2) [TRAILER - WRWTFWW030]

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