prod sh1ny
washed by aeoxve
mixed by jack

洗濯機 세탁기 洗衣机

aeoxve x sh1ny ~ washing machine

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)

Refelt - the disregarded sonic ambience surrounding us

When we left

maco marets 7th Album "Unready"
2023年8月30日（水）配信&CDリリース
配信: https://linkco.re/QmVy4u1d
CD販売サイト: https://macomarets.thebase.in/

Tracklist:
00:01 1. Kariyado
00:26 2. Your Song
00:56 3. Duplicate
01:22 4. Fisherman
01:50 5. Himitsu
02:23 6. Windmills
02:45 7. Amamori
03:17 8. F.O.M.O.
03:41 9. Explorer
04:08 10. Yorunokoe
04:36 11. Thursday, 7AM
05:04 12. If I forgot you

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all songs written and produced by maco marets 
and Riki Azuma (Small Circle of Friends / STUDIO75) 

recorded by maco marets
mixed and mastered by Riki Azuma
mixed and mastered at Studio 75

chorus by Misa Yoneyama (Buoy)(track-1,6,12)
guitar by Taisuke Miyata (track-2,10)

photo by Haruki Matsumoto
design by Ryosuke Kataoka
creative direction by haru. and Miya Yurina (HUG Inc.)

presented by Woodlands Circle

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ラッパーのmaco maretsが、2023年8月30日(水)に自身7作目のアルバム『Unready』をセルフレーベル・Woodlands Circleよりリリースする。今作は2016年リリースのデビュー作『Orang.Pendek』をはじめとする初期3作品ですべての楽曲のトラックメイク、エンジニアリングを担当したプロデューサー・アズマリキ(Small Circle of Friends/STUDIO75)と約4年ぶりのタッグを組んで制作されたシングル4曲+新録8曲の計12曲を収録。

一部コーラスとして参加したシンガー・浮、ギタリストの宮田泰輔(South Penguin サポート等)のほか客演は交えず、アズマリキによるミニマル&スムースなヒップホップトラック、そしてmaco maretsのラップのみで構成された、まさに「原点回帰」と呼ぶにふさわしいストイックな作品に仕上がっている。「Unready=準備[身支度]のできていない」というタイトルの通り、混迷を極める時代の諸相を見つめながら、自らの表現する言葉の有り様を今一度検討し直すように注意深く綴られた歌詞たちは、アルバム全体を通して迷いを抱えた普遍的な人間の姿を浮かび上がらせる。聴く者それぞれに静かな内省のときをうながすであろう、ポスト・コロナの今聴かれるべき秀作だ。

7th Album "Unready" Highlight Medley.

the mustache, the hair, the eyebrows. the three perfectly equal, perfectly formed legs of the stool hosono.

Haruomi Hosono - Close to You

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肌として


星太郎 ( @navygomen ) 

to


一緒に


ライブする為に


作った        set

2024-03-30 “1人と2人の間” feat. 星太郎

home sessions

home session 7

Purchase: bit.ly/35jLaxx
Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

feministcenter.org

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MAILEBONES