★Hibari Music
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Realized by Takahiro Kawaguchi on 24th May, 2008. Recorded and mastered by Taku Unami. Drawing by Tomoya Izumi. Takahiro Kawaguchi is a sound artist who has been producing sound works since 2000 within the fields of field recording, sound installation, and improvisational live sound installation. His work across these genres is linked by the theme of Ôthe recognition of space through sound'. In his first solo CD from hibari music, he uses a number of remodeled counters to compose the space by pu…
Slugabed
For slugabed’s duration, Veliotis and Filip seem to always be seeking an equilibrium, never comfortable with the one they’re currently nestled in. Despite this fickle dynamic, the music is never inpatient, nor worried. Like the drunk donkey (? horse?) depicted on its cover, slugabed is utterly comfortable with its languid meandering.Those familiar with Veliotis’ music, whether composed or improvised, probably have an idea what this meeting sounds like. A drone-based improvisation, slugabed resem…
Fist
49 tracks performed by Yoshio KUGE on 11th & 16th November, 2009. Recorded and edited by Taku Unami assisted by Yohei Aida (core of bells).
Supersedure
Field recordings 1995-2007 by Seijiro Murayama : snare drum + objects and Éric La Casa: microphones + field recordings (1995-2007). Drawing by Tomoya Izumi. 'What makes one a musician, a composer? It happens only when one succeeds in giving life to music, a certain presence. I don't hesitate, even though I am not a writer, a painter etc., to say the same thing about them. For this composition, 'Supersedure', I met Eric. It seems to me that we share an artistic, but maybe also a general attitud…