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Michael Ranta

Taiwan Years

FormatCDLabelMetaphonGenreExperimental

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A stunning journey into the archives of one of the most fascinating composers / percussionists working today, Michael Ranta’s Taiwan Years, issued by Metaphon, is nothing short of a revelation, seamlessly binding acoustic interventions with a subtle pallet of electronic and electroacoustic ambiance in a landscape threaded by East-Asian esotericism, psychedelia, minimalism, and outright experimental avant-gardism.

* Edition of 500. CD and 12 page booklet in gatefold cardboard sleeve * More than any other of Ranta's releases this album shows his multiple roots and ideas as a composer, percussionist and concrete/electronic musician, building a seamless bridge between Eastern and Western avantgarde. Michael Ranta is one of those rare composers able to organically melt his wide artistic span into a singular but yet diverse universe morphing his rich vocabulary as a percussionist with the Oriental esoteric tradition, the psychedelic underground and the realm of electronic minimalism.

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Cat. number: METAPHON 009
Year: 2021

Format

Released with a 12-page booklet.

Release notes

Released with a 12-page booklet.

Tracklist
1Kagaku Henka (1971)18:40
2China Filch (1975)27:06
3At Night (1978)23:06
Credits
Meeuw
Design
Shigeru Sato
Engineer [Recording Engineer]
Tsutomu Kojima
Engineer [Recording Engineer]
EARLabs
Mastered By
Michael Ranta
Mixed By, Performer [Performance], Mixed By [Mixing], Liner Notes
Wayne Jacob
Painting
Timo van Luijk
Producer [Production]
Soundohm

“Long tones and bubbling electronics seamlessly intertwine with the delicate rattling abstraction of percussion and other acoustic sources, producing a series of intricately detailed sonorous landscapes that sound like little else of their moment.”

Bradford Bailey
28 January 2021
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