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Masayuki Imanishi

Worn Tape

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Imanishi's first album for the label, presenting eleven miniatures built from small sounds drawn from his immediate environment: paper, objects, radio, field recording, microphone. The work is abstract in vocabulary but warm and slow in effect, a deliberate counter-position to bombast. Its strength lies in the precision with which discrete, unspectacular materials are placed within reduced frames, locating the music in the lineage of Japanese onkyō and post-Schaefferian micro-concrete.

* Edition of 200 in A5 sized folder. * After several previous albums and collaborations with musicians such as Leif Elggren, Kouhei Matsunaga, Vampillia and The Body, with Worn Tape Japanese musician Masayuki Imanishi presents his first work for Moving Furniture Records. On this album he presents 11 new works based on small sounds from objects, paper, radio and field recordings. Due to the various subtle sounds the album is a captivating work that stands out in a world where bombast seems to rule.

The sounds on this album come from his direct surroundings he comes across in his daily life, making this a very personal work. It strikes how, with these abstract sounds, Imanishi knows to create a warm calming work that is not only experimental in its form, but at the same time easy to listen to.

Masayuki Imanishi is a Japanese sound artist using paper, microphone, radio, field recordings, various objects and any other things which catch his interest.

Details
Cat. number: MFR048
Year: 2018

Format

Edition of 200 in A5 sized folder.

All music by Masayuki Imanishi.

Radio, paper, speaker, field-recordings, microphone.

Release notes

Edition of 200 in A5 sized folder. All music by Masayuki Imanishi. Radio, paper, speaker, field-recordings, microphone.

Tracklist
11
22
33
44
55
66
77
88
99
1010
1111
Credits
Sietse van Erve
Artwork
Jos Smolders
Mastered By
Masayuki Imanishi
Music By, Sounds [Radio, Paper, Speaker, Field Recordings, Microphone]