Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8 (Full Album) 528hz

3x12" of 'and their refinement of the decline' back in print for the first time in many years as of 8/14


stars of the lid 'piano aquieu'

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Despite his status as a key figure in the history of Japanese ambient music, Hiroshi Yoshimura's music remains tragically under-known outside of his home country. Empire of Signs – a new imprint co-helmed by Maxwell August Croy and Spencer Doran – is proud to reissue Yoshimura's debut Music for Nine Postcards for the first time outside Japan in collaboration with Hiroshi's widow Yoko Yoshimura, with more fully licensed reissues of Hiroshi's work to follow in the future.

Working initially as a conceptual artist, the musical side of Yoshimura's artistic practice came to prominence in the post-Fluxus scene of late 1970s Tokyo alongside Akio Suzuki and Takehisa Kosugi, taking many subsequent turns within Japan’s bubble economy afterward. His sound works took on many forms - commissioned fashion runway scores, soundtracking perfume, soundscapes for pre-fab houses, train station sound design - all existing not as side work but as logical extensions of his philosophy of sound. His work strived for serenity as an ideal, and this approach can be felt strongly on Music for Nine Postcards.

Home recorded on a minimal setup of keyboard and Fender Rhodes, Music for Nine Postcards was Yoshimura’s first concrete collection of music, initially a demo recording given to the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art to be played within the building's architecture. This was not mere background music in the prior Japanese “BGM” sense of the word, but “environmental” music, the literal translation of the Japanese term kankyō ongaku [環境音楽] given to Brian Eno’s “ambient” music when it arrived in late 70's Japan. Yoshimura, along with his musical co-traveler Satoshi Ashikawa, searched for a new dialog between sound and space, a new way of listening: sound not as an absolute, but as something that interlocks with a physical environment and shifts the listener’s experience within it. Erik Satie's furniture music, R. Murray Schafer's concept of the soundscape and Eno’s ambience all greatly informed their work,  but the specific form of tranquil stasis presented on releases like Nine Postcards is still difficult to place within a specific tradition, remaining elusive and idiosyncratic despite the economy of it's construction. This record offers the perfect introduction to Hiroshi's unique and beautiful worldview: it's one that can be listened to - and lived in - endlessly.

Music for Nine Post Cards

Hiroshi Yoshimura (吉村弘) - "Dance PM" from Music for Nine Post Cards (EOS01) OUT 11/17/2017

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Fullmoon (Motion Graphics Remix)

Ryuichi Sakamoto + Alva Noto - Trioon I (Vrioon)

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - By This River

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Berlin ( D.S.edit 121221 )

The duo transform Squarepusher’s jazzy clash of beats and instrumentation that is ‘Iambic 9 Poetry’ into a propulsive new track decorated with curling cello and melodic piano.

Seigen Tokuzawa & Masaki Hayashi - Iambic 9 Poetry (Squarepusher Cover)

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Noon (Vrioon)

from the album 'because of a flower' available 11/13

because of a flower

ana roxanne 'suite pour l'invisible'

Das New Fall Festival zeigt Popmusik an ungewohnten Orten – in klassischen Konzertsälen. Das Programm ist ein Mix aus internationalen Stars und Geheimtipps und richtet sich an Musikliebhaber aller Altersgruppen. Der Termin für die mittlerweile vierte Auflage des New Fall Festivals steht bereits: 09. bis 12. Oktober 2014, wieder in der Tonhalle, im Robert-Schumann-Saal und im Da-Vinci-Saal der Hotel Nikko. Bei der diesjährigen Ausgabe werden als neue Locations die Johanneskirche, das Tanzhaus NRW und der Bachsaal hinzukommen und noch mehr Acts präsentieren.

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - By This River

New Fall Festival

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