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Release Date Friday 24th May 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
From his frst full-length album 'Minima Moralia' ("Excellent" 8.1
Pitchfork) in 2006, through the subsequent 70+ albums that followed,
Chihei Hatakeyama has created a mighty canon of work
Having collaborated with the likes of Ai Kuwabara, Hiroki Chiba, Kei Matsumaru,
Gen Hoshino, Terumasa Hino, Tony Allen, and countless others, Shun Ishiwaka is
one of Japan's most prolifc modern jazz drummers.
Between them they've played across ambient, experimental, electronic, pop, hiphop, jazz, and metal projects, and that's what this new release represents - a
meeting of like- minded musicians with innumerable reference points coming
together at an epoch-making juncture to produce an ambient work brimming with
creativity and understanding
They met while appearing live on radio. This extended to a series of gigs. The
chemistry was instantaneous and recording sessions for this 2 volume epic
followed, in March 2023.
Chihei's specifc references for guitar treatments on this album include My Bloody
Valentine, Les Rallizes Denudes and Keiji Haino.
Both musicians drew on their love of Free Jazz and Spiritual Jazz, and in
particular the works of Alice Coltrane and later period Sun Ra. Psycho-acoustic
considerations, chance, spontaneity and the cross- section at which musician's
respond (or not) to each other, in the heat of the moment, were all inspirations for
this remarkable project, which is being released in 2 separate volumes across
2024.
Live shows being arranged in 3 major global cities to coincide with the release of
Vol. 1:
UK : London with Babba Yaga's Hut, Germany : Berlin, Japan : Tokyo.
UK and Europe scheduled for Autumn 2024 following release of Volume 2.
Tracks: M0 / M1.1 / M1.2 / M4 / M7
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