Ramona Ponzini, Z'ev
Ankoku
FormatCDLabelA Silent PlaceGenreExperimental
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Ramona Ponzini's personal touch is certainly her own particular Japanese chant, together with the use of traditional percussions, bells and cymbals from Japan. Z'EV has been enchanted by all those elements (listening to Praxinoscope), asking to Ramona for this cooperation. This is the result of this "long-distance encounter". ANKOKU is a Japanese word which means "deep darkness". For this debut Ramona's voice and percussions has been registered by My Cat is an Alien in their mysterious studio, placed somewhere in Western Alps, adding some field recordings. Recordings has then been sent to Z'EV who has processed them with some of his typical percussions. Z'EV deconstruct the sweetness of Ramona's chants, enfolding the pieces with a darker atmosphere. We have an obscure 5 tracks album, structured on charming vocal melodies moving out from a "haunted house".
Release notes
"暗黒 / Ankoku" is a Japanese word which means "Deep Darkness". 暗黒 is written on the front cover, "Ankoku" is written on the spine. Track title translation: - Track 1: I Stared into the Dark - Track 2: My Nose is Bleeding. I Shed Tears - Track 3: I Lose Consciousness - Track 4: I Lost Faith in Mankind - Track 5: I Lost the Cosmos. Recorded and engineered at Alien Zone, Western Alps, Italy; July 2006. Rendering and recoding in Peckham, England; August-September 2006. Photography taken in…
| 1 | 闇を凝視した | 11:37 | |
| 2 | 鼻から血を流す。涙を流す。 | 9:22 | |
| 3 | 気を失う | 7:40 | |
| 4 | 人類の信用をなくした | 5:04 | |
| 5 | 宇宙をなくした | 3:04 |
- P³ Studio
- Artwork
- Ramona Ponzini
- Artwork, Photography By, Voice, Lyrics By, Wind Chimes [Japanese Wind Chimes], Bells, Percussion [Wooden Percussions]
- My Cat Is An Alien
- Recorded By, Engineer
- Z'ev
- Sequenced By [Rendering, Recoding], Percussion [Some Percussions]
