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{"id":6633296003237,"title":"Geneva Skeen \/\/ Double Bind CD","handle":"geneva-skeen-double-bind-cd","description":"\u003cp\u003eTouchやDragon's Eyeなどから発表しているLAの音響作家Geneva Skeenが2020年末にRoom 40からリリースした新作。物音アンビエントドローン7曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=488117249\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeneva Skeen:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI wrote this album over the past year––a bleak but transformative period of time. This work became an extraverbal expression of my interior experience. With that in mind, I decided not to write about it myself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstead, I asked my dear friend to reflect on her listening of the record. Poet Aristilde Kirby writes:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlower branches dowsing rod against their doubles in the wind's aimless static.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpindled fog verglas plants, caressed by white rays of absolute eyelash.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e[A wisp of fresh respiration] ‘The world has no visible order \u0026amp; all I have is the order of my breath,’ says the fifth track on Double Bind. [A ribbon of a scream] It has the incandescent \u0026amp; incantation-like quality of the title of Fushitshusha’s 2014 album: Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything I Am Ever Changing You Can Only Change Yourself. [Asemic voices from anywhere] What can you count on these days in 2020, outside of the pacing of your breath as we all struggle to cleave to each passing beat pair \u0026amp; repair? [Spirals of a finger on glass] Between two right hands, neither really\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e righter than the other, we have no choice but to hold on to the you one holds dearest to: the beads of just being.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Sinewaves in phase] When I comb my hair to get ready for the day, I realize that the black static it collects was always meant to fall away. [Synthetic graupel in flames] Here, Skeen specializes in ambient music as the pellucid space of an emotional landscape, limned in Timothy Morton’s ethos of dark ecology \u0026amp; Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of nepantla. It is equally phenomenological, psychological, spiritual \u0026amp; visceral. If you ask me, Geneva is a poet who works in sound sculpture. She cures slabs of lived time as if flesh marble \u0026amp; makes of her subconscious an underworld for the listener to locate themselves in. [Bats that clamor as strata of bleeding leather] The through-lines of her past works are clear as a fault crack \u0026amp; in this instance, glimmer like quartz veins.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Tiny harmonic partials prick like an ice pick] Skeen knows that to protect the lit wick, you have to cup the darkness. [Anvil \u0026amp; shelves of overcast guitar drop into a weak bell pulse] She knows that to get past a hard period, like timing a total eclipse’s black sun, you have to account for every degree, every granular shift, of lost movement. [Dread awaits, step by step on the tepid bathroom tile, displaced] Do not let the coldness of existence’s indifference make you forget that inside you is a vast reserve of heat. [Glacial light glaives that cloud perception] Everyday, we literally squeeze water from a stone to wash our face.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[The crashing falls look like plumes of sand smoke] The sense impression I got listening to that song, which is a cascading ripple of descriptions I got from other moments on this album was:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The innermost of all voices centers her poise like mist blankets over morning grass. The blood gallops like cut yew flower in traced stampede dialects for thaw-flecked resonance.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Avalanche reverberations boil time’s marrow \u0026amp; glow with Aaliyah tape drone]\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChoose yourself. Don’t be scared to live again.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow, I am dusting a concord grape with my being’s clear lymph before I eat it.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Geneva Skeen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T11:30:18+09:00","created_at":"2021-04-07T11:27:40+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["ambient","cd","drone","monooto","new","room40"],"price":168000,"price_min":168000,"price_max":168000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39581775790245,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Geneva Skeen \/\/ Double Bind CD","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":168000,"weight":90,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do1_cda0174e-0564-4e09-8921-e9b009545e48.jpg?v=1617762461","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do2_0701b694-04ae-45f8-9875-ac79a2f8f4c6.jpg?v=1617762461"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do1_cda0174e-0564-4e09-8921-e9b009545e48.jpg?v=1617762461","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21063719551141,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do1_cda0174e-0564-4e09-8921-e9b009545e48.jpg?v=1617762461"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do1_cda0174e-0564-4e09-8921-e9b009545e48.jpg?v=1617762461","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":21063719583909,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.412,"height":850,"width":1200,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do2_0701b694-04ae-45f8-9875-ac79a2f8f4c6.jpg?v=1617762461"},"aspect_ratio":1.412,"height":850,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/do2_0701b694-04ae-45f8-9875-ac79a2f8f4c6.jpg?v=1617762461","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eTouchやDragon's Eyeなどから発表しているLAの音響作家Geneva Skeenが2020年末にRoom 40からリリースした新作。物音アンビエントドローン7曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=488117249\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeneva Skeen:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI wrote this album over the past year––a bleak but transformative period of time. This work became an extraverbal expression of my interior experience. With that in mind, I decided not to write about it myself.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eInstead, I asked my dear friend to reflect on her listening of the record. Poet Aristilde Kirby writes:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlower branches dowsing rod against their doubles in the wind's aimless static.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpindled fog verglas plants, caressed by white rays of absolute eyelash.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e[A wisp of fresh respiration] ‘The world has no visible order \u0026amp; all I have is the order of my breath,’ says the fifth track on Double Bind. [A ribbon of a scream] It has the incandescent \u0026amp; incantation-like quality of the title of Fushitshusha’s 2014 album: Nothing Changes No One Can Change Anything I Am Ever Changing You Can Only Change Yourself. [Asemic voices from anywhere] What can you count on these days in 2020, outside of the pacing of your breath as we all struggle to cleave to each passing beat pair \u0026amp; repair? [Spirals of a finger on glass] Between two right hands, neither really\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e righter than the other, we have no choice but to hold on to the you one holds dearest to: the beads of just being.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Sinewaves in phase] When I comb my hair to get ready for the day, I realize that the black static it collects was always meant to fall away. [Synthetic graupel in flames] Here, Skeen specializes in ambient music as the pellucid space of an emotional landscape, limned in Timothy Morton’s ethos of dark ecology \u0026amp; Gloria Anzaldua’s idea of nepantla. It is equally phenomenological, psychological, spiritual \u0026amp; visceral. If you ask me, Geneva is a poet who works in sound sculpture. She cures slabs of lived time as if flesh marble \u0026amp; makes of her subconscious an underworld for the listener to locate themselves in. [Bats that clamor as strata of bleeding leather] The through-lines of her past works are clear as a fault crack \u0026amp; in this instance, glimmer like quartz veins.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Tiny harmonic partials prick like an ice pick] Skeen knows that to protect the lit wick, you have to cup the darkness. [Anvil \u0026amp; shelves of overcast guitar drop into a weak bell pulse] She knows that to get past a hard period, like timing a total eclipse’s black sun, you have to account for every degree, every granular shift, of lost movement. [Dread awaits, step by step on the tepid bathroom tile, displaced] Do not let the coldness of existence’s indifference make you forget that inside you is a vast reserve of heat. [Glacial light glaives that cloud perception] Everyday, we literally squeeze water from a stone to wash our face.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[The crashing falls look like plumes of sand smoke] The sense impression I got listening to that song, which is a cascading ripple of descriptions I got from other moments on this album was:\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“The innermost of all voices centers her poise like mist blankets over morning grass. The blood gallops like cut yew flower in traced stampede dialects for thaw-flecked resonance.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[Avalanche reverberations boil time’s marrow \u0026amp; glow with Aaliyah tape drone]\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChoose yourself. Don’t be scared to live again.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow, I am dusting a concord grape with my being’s clear lymph before I eat it.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Geneva Skeen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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A new work released from Room 2020 at the end of 40 by LA sound writer Geneva Skeen, who has been released by Touch and Dragon's Eye.Includes 7 songs of noise ambient drone. Geneva Skeen: "I wrote this album over the past year ––a bleak ...
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{"id":6633295118501,"title":"Chris Abrahams \/\/ Thrown (15th Anniversary Edition) CD","handle":"chris-abrahams-thrown-15th-anniversary-edition-cd","description":"\u003cp\u003eオーストラリア・シドニーの大御所ピアニストChris Abrahamsが15年前に同国Room 40よりリリースした作品がこの度再発。物音アンビエントコラージュ9曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2518271116\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eI’ve written quite often about my first experience listening to Thrown at Chris’s place in Sydney. On that initial listening I was equal parts terrified and awestruck. The sensation of sitting there, in low light after midnight, listening with Chris and our mutual friend Clayton after an evening out at a NowNow event, is something I can recall vividly. Thrown is a record that, from the very outset, has roused me in a very direct, particular and profound, sense of affect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eRecorded using Dx-7, piano and a positive organ, the album exists in some kind of parallel acoustic dimension where these divergent musical timbres are somehow brought together into a unifying (albeit unsettling) whole. It was the first recording Chris had made like it, and in my opinion it set a benchmark which has guided his numerous releases for Room40.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNow 15 years on from its original release, it seemed like a suitable moment to seed this edition back into the sonic consciousness. Time has cast little shadow on this edition - it still sounds absolutely outside of time. It creates its own microcosm upon each listening and remains one of the records from the Room40 catalogue that deeply resonates for me.\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eLawrence English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Chris Abrahams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-09T11:24:13+09:00","created_at":"2021-04-07T11:25:44+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["cd","drone","monooto","new","room40"],"price":168000,"price_min":168000,"price_max":168000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39581773856933,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Chris Abrahams \/\/ Thrown (15th Anniversary Edition) CD","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":168000,"weight":90,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th1_bdf11ad1-4473-42a0-b55b-c46d754b3efa.jpg?v=1617762346","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th2_fb2cf481-aee8-4e5f-a529-8362798d662a.jpg?v=1617762346"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th1_bdf11ad1-4473-42a0-b55b-c46d754b3efa.jpg?v=1617762346","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":21063703888037,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th1_bdf11ad1-4473-42a0-b55b-c46d754b3efa.jpg?v=1617762346"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th1_bdf11ad1-4473-42a0-b55b-c46d754b3efa.jpg?v=1617762346","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":21063703920805,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.412,"height":850,"width":1200,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th2_fb2cf481-aee8-4e5f-a529-8362798d662a.jpg?v=1617762346"},"aspect_ratio":1.412,"height":850,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/th2_fb2cf481-aee8-4e5f-a529-8362798d662a.jpg?v=1617762346","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003eオーストラリア・シドニーの大御所ピアニストChris Abrahamsが15年前に同国Room 40よりリリースした作品がこの度再発。物音アンビエントコラージュ9曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2518271116\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eI’ve written quite often about my first experience listening to Thrown at Chris’s place in Sydney. 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Time has cast little shadow on this edition - it still sounds absolutely outside of time. It creates its own microcosm upon each listening and remains one of the records from the Room40 catalogue that deeply resonates for me.\"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eLawrence English\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Chris Abrahams\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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{"id":6633292464293,"title":"Lawrence English + Stephen Vitiello \/\/ Fable CD","handle":"lawrence-english-stephen-vitiello-fable-cd","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoom 40主宰Lawrence EnglishとNYの大御所音響作家Stephen Vitielloによる共作CD。アンビエント〜エレクトロアコースティック7曲を収録。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1842487821\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdition of 500.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLawrence English and Stephen Vitiello are creators of mythology. Their mythology renders a series of acoustic spaces, haunted by narrative and hinting at happenings unseen, but certainly heard.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith Fable, we are presented with their second duet. It chronicles three years of intermittent audio communications in search of new collaborative approaches. The results focus on the pair’s joint interests in modular synthesis, field recordings and the blurry boundaries between acoustic instrumentation and electronics. The album’s multiplicity of sources creates a weaving and at times overwhelming collage of materials that coalesce with considered intent. 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Their mythology renders a series of acoustic spaces, haunted by narrative and hinting at happenings unseen, but certainly heard.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith Fable, we are presented with their second duet. It chronicles three years of intermittent audio communications in search of new collaborative approaches. The results focus on the pair’s joint interests in modular synthesis, field recordings and the blurry boundaries between acoustic instrumentation and electronics. The album’s multiplicity of sources creates a weaving and at times overwhelming collage of materials that coalesce with considered intent. 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When I say solo, I’m in no way reducing the contributions of friends like Mike Cooper, Tam Patton, Cat Hope, DJ Olive, Ben Frost, Gail Priest, Scanner, Philip Samartzis, John Chantler and Heinz Riegler who all helped to realise this work. Frankly, without them the record would have been a whole lot less interesting.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAs the title suggests, this is categorically a record about motion, about transitions and about the ways of recognising the lived-in world that is so acutely felt in the earliest years of travelling. During this time, my world view expanded considerably and I was struck by the complexities of the world, the interpersonal relationships people experienced each day, the political intensities that haunted cities (perhaps most clearly captured in the transformed recordings of ultra nationalist speakers on the streets of Tokyo), the dynamic shifts of season (something rather foreign to us antipodeans) and the experiential list goes on.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the time of making this record, I was quite focused on the idea of creating sound works that were detached from emotion. This wasn’t to say I wanted to create a cold music, but rather one that was utterly focused on the sensory qualities of the experiences that\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e informed it. Phenomenology instead of affect theory I guess you could say. Returning to this record a decade and a half on, it’s funny how powerfully nostalgic and intensely emotional the memories carried in these pieces have become. My intensions, at least from my own listenership, have completely failed and I can say I do (deeply) feel this music (and thankfully sense its places and spaces too).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach of the pieces on Transit were born out of field recording. During these years, I was recording literally all the time. I found it a powerful device for memory and also for imagination. Revisiting the recordings months or years after making them, I found different qualities of those times were revealed and those shifts often shaped the way the pieces were composed. 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{"id":6545093689509,"title":"Mike Cooper \/\/ Raft LP","handle":"mike-cooper-raft-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e60年代から活動する英国大御所ギタリストMike Cooperの2017年リリース作品。オープンチューニングによる紡がれる牧歌的なギターアンビエント7曲を収録。DLコードい付属。\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1668730892\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Mike Cooper’s output of the past half century has been described as ‘post-everything’. It’s a fitting phrase really when you consider he has been at the beating heart of so many critical musical moments. From the development of the blues touring circuit in the UK, through the growth of the folk scene and into the explosion of free improvisation that came to define a generation of UK musicians. Amidst it all, working at stitching these disparate forms into some kind of deterritorialised zone, was Mike Cooper.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt’s fitting then, that he explores the notion of journey on his latest full length edition. Even more fitting that he examines the vessels that carry us on journeys. With Raft, Cooper charts his interests in ambient exotica and collides it with his research into various South Pacific musical traditions. The record extends his palette considerably, stretching away from the hypnogogic flows of his master piece Rayon Hula, into a more oceanic setting. Raft 21 Guayaquil To Tully, for example, sets out a lilting rise and fall of harmony which erupts with spluttering electronics.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eSpecifically inspired by Vital Alsar and William Wills, sailors who undertook some of the 20th centuries most impressive solo voyages, Raft reflects upon the determination of the solo traveller\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e. In a musical sense, Mike Cooper’s work of recent years has very much reflected a determined solo traveller work ethic. In his commitment to travel alone, he has developed a range of strategies that he works against as a means of surprising himself and uncovering unfamiliar sonic relations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis approach has proved an incredibly fertile pursuit for Cooper, arguably producing some of his most affecting and engaging works, his Room40 albums Fratello Mare and White Shadows Of The South Seas amongst them. 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{"id":6545079959717,"title":"Akio Suzuki \/\/ Zeitstudie LP","handle":"akio-suzuki-zeitstudie-lp","description":"\u003cp\u003e日本を代表するサウンドアーティストAkio Suzukiが1984年にカセットでリリースしたアルバムを、オーストラリアアンビエント作家Lawrence English主宰Room40がLP再発。全4曲のオーガニック・サウンドコラージュを収録。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1267095545\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOriginally release on cassette in 1984, “Zeitstudie” is remastered and published as an LP by Room40. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOn May 1984 I appeared at a German festival called Pro \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusica Nova, organized by Radio Bremen. I then travelled to Berlin by car with Rolf Langebertels, the owner of Galerie Giannozzo who had driven to Bremen to hear me perform. I still remember very vividly the experience of passing through the checkpoint to enter West Berlin, a city that floated like an island in the middle of the still socialist GDR. I had previously visited Berlin in 1982 to perform at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien at an event that Rolf had organized. This time too Rolf had organized a concert for me at the Technische Universitat. Playing off the title of the piece (“Study Time”) I had performed at Pro Musica Nova, I titled the piece for this concert “Zeitstudie”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI owe Rolf a great deal of gratitude, as it was him who encouraged me by releasing my very first cassette tape, “Zeitstudie von Akio Suzuki”. In recent years it has become difficult for me to carry heavy instruments around with me, and I have started to do simpler performances with objects assembled on site. So it feels wonderful to have the sound of the battery of instruments I used back then to be\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e returned to the light of day.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn “Zeitstudie von A.S.” I used an ANALAPOS, the echo instrument I invented in 1970, and the Suzuki-type glass harmonica that I created in 1975. The ANALAPOS resembles the tin-can telephone that children used to play with: two metal cans, open at one end and connected by a coil spring. You play it by stretching out the spring horizonally and then projecting your voice into the open end of one of the cylinders. The second piece features a variation, where I would suspend several ANALAPOS vertically and play them like a percussion instrument.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Suzuki-type glass harmonica is in a simpler form than the pre-existing glass harmonica, and consists of five long glass tubes of varying diameters suspended horizontally in a metal frame. As well as rubbing the tubes with wet hands, I developed my own style of playing it using sticks. Once when I was practicing with it in the Netherlands, outside the window I was surprised to hear a bird imitating my sounds. However, later I discovered that the bird always sang that way, and as a token of my regret for having ever doubted it, I borrowed the bird’s Dutch name, De Koolmees, and I s till use it for my instrument. Recently, as I listened back to the cassette of “Zeitstudie von A.S.”, one of Hiromi Miyakita’s drawings was lying in front of me. There was a sympathetic resonance between the sounds and the drawing, so I decided to use it on the cover. This is a joyful music.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eAkio Suzuki\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Akio Suzuki\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-02-28T12:05:33+09:00","created_at":"2021-02-27T11:02:18+09:00","vendor":"Tobira Records","type":"","tags":["asia","field recording","lp","monooto","new","room40"],"price":278000,"price_min":278000,"price_max":278000,"available":false,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":null,"compare_at_price_min":0,"compare_at_price_max":0,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39276009390245,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":false,"name":"Akio Suzuki \/\/ Zeitstudie LP","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":278000,"weight":430,"compare_at_price":null,"inventory_management":"shopify","barcode":"","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei1.jpg?v=1614481512","\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei3.jpg?v=1614481512"],"featured_image":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei1.jpg?v=1614481512","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":20330138632357,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"width":700,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei1.jpg?v=1614391340"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":700,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei1.jpg?v=1614391340","width":700},{"alt":null,"id":20330138665125,"position":2,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.339,"height":896,"width":1200,"src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei3.jpg?v=1614391339"},"aspect_ratio":1.339,"height":896,"media_type":"image","src":"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0305\/1637\/9780\/products\/zei3.jpg?v=1614391339","width":1200}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e日本を代表するサウンドアーティストAkio Suzukiが1984年にカセットでリリースしたアルバムを、オーストラリアアンビエント作家Lawrence English主宰Room40がLP再発。全4曲のオーガニック・サウンドコラージュを収録。DLコード付属。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1267095545\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOriginally release on cassette in 1984, “Zeitstudie” is remastered and published as an LP by Room40. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOn May 1984 I appeared at a German festival called Pro \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMusica Nova, organized by Radio Bremen. I then travelled to Berlin by car with Rolf Langebertels, the owner of Galerie Giannozzo who had driven to Bremen to hear me perform. I still remember very vividly the experience of passing through the checkpoint to enter West Berlin, a city that floated like an island in the middle of the still socialist GDR. I had previously visited Berlin in 1982 to perform at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien at an event that Rolf had organized. This time too Rolf had organized a concert for me at the Technische Universitat. Playing off the title of the piece (“Study Time”) I had performed at Pro Musica Nova, I titled the piece for this concert “Zeitstudie”.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI owe Rolf a great deal of gratitude, as it was him who encouraged me by releasing my very first cassette tape, “Zeitstudie von Akio Suzuki”. In recent years it has become difficult for me to carry heavy instruments around with me, and I have started to do simpler performances with objects assembled on site. So it feels wonderful to have the sound of the battery of instruments I used back then to be\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e returned to the light of day.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn “Zeitstudie von A.S.” I used an ANALAPOS, the echo instrument I invented in 1970, and the Suzuki-type glass harmonica that I created in 1975. The ANALAPOS resembles the tin-can telephone that children used to play with: two metal cans, open at one end and connected by a coil spring. You play it by stretching out the spring horizonally and then projecting your voice into the open end of one of the cylinders. 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There was a sympathetic resonance between the sounds and the drawing, so I decided to use it on the cover. This is a joyful music.\u003c\/span\u003e \"\u003cbr\u003e- \u003c\/em\u003eAkio Suzuki\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Akio Suzuki\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Room40\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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