tetuzi akiyama // thaumaturgy LP

Tokyo guitarist tetuzi akiyama will launch an experimental/drone label in LA in 2020.A record released on Besom Presse.

Includes 11 acoustic guitar solos recommended for alone time. DL code included. 

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Includes DL code. 12 "black vinyl. 

Tracklist:

1. predawn 02:18
2. proclamation 05:24
3. Lament 04:56
4. Trajectory 03:17
5. apparatus 04:10
6. pseudopsia 03:44
7. perseverance 02:58
8. forgetfulness 05:44
9. terrace 05:47
10. parallelism 01:55
11. thaumaturgy 01:41

besom presses:

" The intimacy of Akiyama's Thaumaturgy is immense. In nine short through-composed pieces written over a ten-year period, Akiyama captures something melodic, simple, and utterly transfixing. In his first instrumental solo acoustic guitar record in more than a decade, Akiyama, widely known for his improvisatory collaborations as well as his hypnotizing boogie-drone guitar pieces, here works without effects and maintains a strict harmonic palette throughout. Every note is given ample space to ring out and decay, together slowly and deliberately building the frame that is to become the completed structure. The resulting atmosphere of his pared down grammar threads each individual track to the next as the songs work together with the gravity of a single object.

The record, as its name hints, is suffused with phenomenological magic. The pieces function architecturally, in a Bachelardian sense, sheltering the daydreamer and encouraging charged stillness. The record envelops like a long-vacant shelter, made sacred by memory. like building blocks, waft through the air, exacting the psycho-durational and transportive power of a music box. Tracing of inner landscapes, critical listening reveals that this is no mere background music. The acoustic field is richly ornamented with combination tones that are intensified by a pacing in step with Rothko-philes, Morton Feldman and Loren Connors.

While the enclosure of home serves for many as refuges from the world, Akiyama's Thaumaturgy speaks to a basic drive for a sense of place in an epoch dominated by the disassociation of global nowhere-culture. nostalgia and melancholy pointing us home or, as Bachelard would suggest, to the 'miniscule phenomenon of the shimmering consciousness.'"

Artist : tetuzi akiyama

Label : besom press