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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.
Details
Cat. number: METAPHON 009
Year: 2021
Notes:
Released with a 12-page booklet.
Release notes:
Released with a 12-page booklet.
Tracklist
| 1 | Kagaku Henka (1971) | 18:40 | |
| 2 | China Filch (1975) | 27:06 | |
| 3 | At 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]
