Takumi Akaishi
Memoria
* Handmade album jacket housed in an A4-sized sleeve, wrapped in red Japanese washi paper, and tied with a string cross. Each jacket features a one-of-a-kind collage by Akaishi * Takumi Akaishi’s music is like a delicate shadow box garden, a miniature sonic world unto itself. Following the release of his debut LP Music for Hurdy Gurdy (2012) and first cassette tape Naked Tape and Others (2013), Akaishi garnered critical acclaim for his fidelity to the hurdy gurdy mantle, filtered through a uni…
Naked Tape and Others
Ten pieces for hurdy gurdy and tape (forty minutes) recorded between 2008 and 2013. With book-based covers about the human body (each one unique), this is a truly elaborate package, with an insert, gut-string, cotton, ninety-minute private sound recording entitled the "Naked Tape," box of paulownia wood.