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Reizen

Untitled

Label: Fylkingen Records

Format: LP

Genre: Experimental

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** 2026 Stock. Edition of 350 numbered copies. ** Atsushi Reizen, uses electric-guitar-based sound sources with drone, noise and minimalist techniques. In 2007 he formed the ambient quartet Nerae, but he has now left the group to focus on his solo music. This LP features two newly recorded tracks based on the concept of 'differing speeds', and a track recorded live at Fylkingen in Stockholm. 

Untitled finds Reizen operating in the starkest possible register, using electric guitar not as a melodic instrument but as a generator of tone, grit, and almost imperceptible movement. Working within a language shaped by drone, noise, and minimalist procedure, he strips away harmonic ornament and gesture until what remains is the bare fact of vibration. The record marks a clear step away from the more collectively diffused atmosphere of his former ambient quartet Nerae, folding that experience of sustained texture back into a solitary focus where every shift in volume, timbre, and speed is exposed.

At the heart of the LP are two newly recorded pieces built around the concept of “differing speeds.” Rather than treating time as a single, unified grid, Reizen lets layers move past one another at slightly misaligned rates: a slow-beating fundamental hums underneath higher, more agile overtones; long, glacial fades are countered by faint, quicker pulsations buried in the noise floor. This friction between temporal strata creates a listening situation where the ear is constantly recalibrating, unsure whether it is hearing change or hallucinating it. The minimal surface invites that kind of productive doubt - the music seems still from a distance, but close listening reveals spirals, drift, and subtle shifts in phase that feel almost like weather systems passing through a single sustained chord.

Details
Cat. number: FYLP1034
Year: 2013
Notes:
Hand-numbered edition of 350 with folded cardstock insert and 6 page booklet bound with a grommet. Live Recording at Fylkingen, Stockholm, 23 Feb.2013. 45 rpm.