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

Kuro (OST)

Tujiko Noriko - Rooftop (PAN 89)

Post-apocalyptic remix from Russian producer Alexey Volkov for Toulouse-based trio Blind Delon including vocals by HIV+, delivering three tracks on the border of post-punk, EBM and techno.

Drugs [TRPLM005]
Release date: 26/04/2019
Tracklist:
A1. Aldous Huxley
A2. L'Opium Du Pauvre
B1. In A Trap
B2. Aldous Huxley (Alexey Volkov Remix)
Mastering by Lorenzo Targhetta 
Artwork by Victor Dvnkel

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Blind Delon & HIV+ - Aldous Huxley (Alexey Volkov Remix) [Artaphine Premiere]

"The Toulouse-based trio Blind Delon favors distorted basslines, dirty beats, and cold synths. On their new post-punk-ebm-techno 4-track EP, "Drugs", they invite french industrial veteran HIV+ to contribute some harsh lyrics and characteristic smashed voice, under the influence of psychotropic substances. Including a post-apocalyptic remix from Russian producer Alexey Volkov."

Release date: April 26, 2019
Order via: https://tripalium.bandcamp.com/album/trplm005-drugs

https://soundcloud.com/blind-delon

Premiere: Blind Delon & HIV+ - Aldous Huxley [Tripalium Corp]

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

Tujiko Noriko - Karaoke Theme (PAN 89)

Tujiko Noriko - The Flood (PAN 89)

Sam Britton, Will Worsley - The Storm (PAN 89)

Tujiko Noriko, Joji Koyama - Akichi (PAN 89)

"Rote Lippen" is taken from the new album 'Nackt' by Levin Goes Lightly.

Lyrics:
Rote Lippen und deine Haut 
Wenn ich den Mut hab frag ich dich 
Fingernägel kauen
Du hättest mich sonst umgebracht 
Hättest du das nicht gemacht 
Rote Lippen und deine Haut 
Wieder den Hörer in der Hand 
Noch einmal verwählen 
Noch zweimal verwählen
Wir fahren zusammen durch die Nacht
Mit einer Vorstellung von dir 
Rote Lippen und deine Haut

Nackt

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Levin Goes Lightly - Rote Lippen

Taken from Lost Few's LP Between The Silence on Southern Lights, out June 24.

More: https://www.orbmag.com/music/premiere

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