In the dark rays
Beyond the shadows of bliss
Remind you softly - everything upheld for too long meant to be freed and the kindness will be composed.

An interpersonal relationship is ultimately a story of distance. In a lifelong dance of secrets, contemplation and self-absorption, only a rare moment of unity, a scarce connection punctures the solitude. Thus, even a story of love, friendship or family is always a striving towards understanding, a constant seeking of honesty amidst the untold, a faithful yearning for connection against all odds.

Dunya is the creative partnership between Georgian artist FH HF and Tunisian artist Anasisana. 'Pay It Forward', the result of a long-distance collaborative effort, is an 8-piece album fusing the differing techniques of the two creators. Translating into 'Life' from Arabic, Dunya invites the listener to a communion, a connection to the senses.

Pay It Forward

Dunya - A Wound Kisser

75 Dollar Bill came to perform at les ateliers claus twice - in very different circumstances, but never uneventful. The first passage was in November 2016 as a duo formed by Che Chen & Rick Brown. A few days prior to this gig Donald Trump just got elected and the general atmosphere was low to say the least. In 2019 they came back with Andrew Lafkas on bass, politics were forgotten for one night, and they rocked a full house with instruments that just made it in time for the last gigs of their European tour.

This live ateliers claus release is a compilation of both passages. Che Chen And Rick Brown edited & chose the tracks themselves, four tracks from 2016 and two tracks from 2019.

1. Beni Said (2016)
2. WZN#3 (2016)
3. Touedar Akli (2016)*
4. WZN#4 (2016)
5. Fifteen (2019)
6. I Was Real (2019)
credits
released May 26, 2021

*Touedar Akli (2016) is a cover of song by Groupe el Azhar

1-4 (2016) - Rick Brown: plywood crate, percussion / Che Chen: guitar
5-6 (2019) - Rick Brown: plywood crate, percussion, homemade horns / Che Chen: guitar, soprano saxophone / Andrew Lafkas: contrabass

The 2016 concert was recorded by Etienne Foyer, the 2019 by Christophe Albertijn.

LAC017 - 75 Dollar Bill "Beni Said (2016)"

Suncycle (With Ocean Sounds)

My new Album 'Fractal Worlds' by Spirit project.

Lost Souls (Original Mix)

Galactic Bells

Le motto

Liveset with the Azimuth system at TodaysArt 2018, The Hague

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TodaysArt 2018 [excerpt]

Tujiko Noriko - Kuro (OST)
Format: LP / CD / Digital
Label: PAN (ENTOPIA)
Cat.No. PAN 89
Release Date: 26 April 2019 
Pre-order album: bit.ly/2TNq3yB / bit.ly/2F3mN9Q

Written and directed by Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko, Kuro tells the tale of Romi, a Japanese woman living in the suburbs of Paris with her paraplegic lover Milou. Tending to Milou by day and working in a karaoke bar by night, Romi reminisces about a time she and Milou once lived together in Japan with a mysterious ailing man named Mr. Ono. Weaving together personal history, anecdotes and myths, her stories soon turn ominous.

When we first decided to ‘split’ the film into what might be described as two parallel layers — the narrated story and the visual story — we found that it opened up an ‘in-between’ space, a space where what is heard and seen continually wrestle with one another. We envisaged that the true setting of the film would emerge from this friction, as something imagined and projected by the audience. After a few screenings we were struck by how some audience members would refer to scenes or events in the film that, for us, did not take place… We both thought of the music of Kuro as a score to this space in-between.

-Joji Koyama

Composed and recorded during the editing of the film in Berlin, the Kuro OST by Tujiko Noriko (with contributions from Joji Koyama, Sam Britton and Will Worsely), is a crucial and integral part of the film, acting not only as a glue to bind the layers of the film together, but along with the sonic palette of the film’s sound design, evokes it’s claustrophobic atmospheres and moments of haunting beauty.

I tried to think of the pieces in abstract terms, like moods and atmospheres. In a way, the process was quite similar to how I usually make music, in the sense that I have images in my head. Of course in this case there were actual images and a lot of them very close to me, but I didn't want to get overly conscious about them either—I didn't want to get stuck by trying to be too specific.

-Tujiko Noriko

The music, which in the film is largely heard in tandem to the narrating voice of Tujiko Noriko (who also stars as Romi), is presented and arranged here as a separate piece in its own right.

Written and produced by Tujiko Noriko. Mixed by Sam Britton and Will Worsley at Coda to Coda, London.
The album is mastered by Rashad Becker at D&M, Berlin featuring photography by Joji Koyama and layout by Bill Kouligas and Johannes Schnatmann.

ENTOPIA is the latest offshoot series from PAN seeking to amplify and redefine our ideas of what a soundtrack can be. The series will survey critical works across the spectrum from musical composers on PAN and beyond, commissioned for the worlds of film, art, performance, installation works, theatre, dance and fashion.

@tujikonoriko
http://p-a-n.org

Kuro (OST)

Sam Britton, Will Worsley - Mouth Full of Soil (PAN 89)

Tujiko Noriko - Morning Theme (PAN 89)

Tujiko Noriko - Ride (PAN 89)

Mark Vernon "The Consensus Is To Delete"

MAR051 Mark Vernon "An Annotated Phonography of Chance" LP

order:
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An Annotated Phonography of Chance

Mark Vernon "The Consensus Is To Delete"

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