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Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date // Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud LP

Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date // Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud LP

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A record released by Belgian ambient writer Stijn Hüwels and Tokyo ambient writer Tomoyoshi Date on the French ambient label Laaps in September 2021.

Includes field recordings, piano, and synths for 5 sleepy ambient tracks.It is out of print.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Laaps / IIKKI releases available at Tobira. 

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edition of 200.

duration: 34.12 mn

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Text by Laaps:

"Tōki Hi, Tōki Kumo / A Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud is the second collaboration by Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels.
The album was commissioned by Laaps.

Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels met for the first time in 2015 in Tokyo, being introduced to each other by Chihei Hatakeyama. That same evening, they recorded what would later become Hochu-Ekki-Tou, their first album, released on Home Normal in 2019 .. For "Tōki hi, tōki kumo", they teamed up again to create a slow and bright album, using field recordings, processed guitar, piano and synth. well.

Tomoyoshi Date creates acoustic and organic sounds with a little touch of digital processing. He began to create electronic music in 1998. In 2003, he forms the group Opitope with Chihei Hatakeyama (released by SPEKK), in 2012 the group ILLUHA with Corey Fuller (released by 12k), and the group Melodia with Federico Durand (Home Normal). His solo albums were released from Flyrec (2009, Japan) and Own Records (2011, Luxembourg). Also he worked as emergency doctor until 2014, and started his ambient oriental medical clinic "Tsuyukusa Clinic" in Tokyo since 2014. Tomoyoshi currently resides in Narita, close to Tokyo.

He's using mainly layers of processed guitar and field recordings. He released on Dauw, mAtter, Eilean Rec., Home Normal, White Paddy Mountain and Slowcraft / Lifelines. He released albums in collaboration with Chihei Hatakeyama , Norihito Suda, An Moku and Ian Hawgood. Together with James Murray he forms Silent Vigils. Stijn lives and works in Leuven and Brussels, Belgium. He's also curating Slaapwel Records since 2014, a label dedicated to music to fall asleep with.

Artist: Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date

Label: Laaps

A record released by Belgian ambient writer Stijn Hüwels and Tokyo ambient writer Tomoyoshi Date on the French ambient label Laaps in September 2021.

Includes field recordings, piano, and synths for 5 sleepy ambient tracks.It is out of print.

Labels and other works Click here for more information. ///Click here to see more Laaps / IIKKI releases available at Tobira. 

----------------------------

edition of 200.

duration: 34.12 mn

~

Text by Laaps:

"Tōki Hi, Tōki Kumo / A Distant Fire, A Distant Cloud is the second collaboration by Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels.
The album was commissioned by Laaps.

Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels met for the first time in 2015 in Tokyo, being introduced to each other by Chihei Hatakeyama. That same evening, they recorded what would later become Hochu-Ekki-Tou, their first album, released on Home Normal in 2019 .. For "Tōki hi, tōki kumo", they teamed up again to create a slow and bright album, using field recordings, processed guitar, piano and synth. well.

Tomoyoshi Date creates acoustic and organic sounds with a little touch of digital processing. He began to create electronic music in 1998. In 2003, he forms the group Opitope with Chihei Hatakeyama (released by SPEKK), in 2012 the group ILLUHA with Corey Fuller (released by 12k), and the group Melodia with Federico Durand (Home Normal). His solo albums were released from Flyrec (2009, Japan) and Own Records (2011, Luxembourg). Also he worked as emergency doctor until 2014, and started his ambient oriental medical clinic "Tsuyukusa Clinic" in Tokyo since 2014. Tomoyoshi currently resides in Narita, close to Tokyo.

He's using mainly layers of processed guitar and field recordings. He released on Dauw, mAtter, Eilean Rec., Home Normal, White Paddy Mountain and Slowcraft / Lifelines. He released albums in collaboration with Chihei Hatakeyama , Norihito Suda, An Moku and Ian Hawgood. Together with James Murray he forms Silent Vigils. Stijn lives and works in Leuven and Brussels, Belgium. He's also curating Slaapwel Records since 2014, a label dedicated to music to fall asleep with.

Artist: Stijn Hüwels + Tomoyoshi Date

Label: Laaps