Hitoshi Kojo

Lux Ova" is a compilation of Hitoshi Kojo's recordings from the middle 90's, before he started releasing the work as Spiracle. Under Spiracle name, he has released long durational drone recordings that were often compared to the works of Organum, La Monte Young, or Iancu Dumitrescu. Through ten years, the style crystalized to more minimal and subtle direction, as it appears in Ananta (from Heren Scarsdale Agency) and the last release Evestrum (from Drone Records).
This compilation already shows the direction, but also his more spontaneous side that has appeared in his later project Kodama (with Michael Northam) and Jüppala Kääpiö (with Carole Kojo Zweifel).
Although Hitoshi Kojo has released several recordings by his real name, those were mostly documents of his extended works like installation and site-specific action, except Ezo (from Alluvial Recordings).
However this compilation covers the unshown part of his musical influences in the early period such as 70's psychedelic music, 80's industrial music, shogaze.
The various materials: voices, flutes, strings, material noises, field recordings were all multilayered and harmonized together with foggy electromagnetic hiss of a cassette recorder.　They may often sound raw and dense. However they diffuse vivid impulse of early creation which is not entangled by an emotional heaviness.
The handmade package contains a print of Hitoshi Kojo's animistic drawing that was also made in the middle 90's.