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【Dur?e/MINAMO-CD-[12K 1058CD]】

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2,030円
(税込)

日本のエレクトロ・アコースティックユニット、ミナモの新作が遂に登場!ミナモは、
1999年より活動を開始した、杉本佳一、安永哲郎、岩下裕一郎、笹本美奈子による4人
組。新作『Duree』(デュレ)は、フランス人哲学者アンリ・ベルグソンの理論である
『純粋持続』に影響を受け制作されました。今回は、過去の作品と違い、作曲に近い
作業で各曲をレコーディングしていきました。そしてコンピュータとデジタルエフェ
クトは極力抑え、アコースティック楽器の響きとアナログエフェクターのノイズ、メ
ンバーの息づかいや衣擦れまでを含む相互作用と空気感が要素として大切にされてい
ます。アコースティック楽器の美しい音色と、微かに感じるデジタルエフェクトが、
ミニマルながらも様々な色合いのメロディー/テクスチャーを生み出しており、催眠的
な心地よさと、研ぎすまされた覚醒感を同時に包括するサウンドに。坂本龍一も注目
するミナモ、最高傑作の誕生です!!
info:
"Back in 1999, on the forefront of the Japanese electronic/acoustic microsound scene, was the then two-piece live improvisation band Minamo (two more members were added in 2001 to make the current four-piece lineup). Their live concerts helped pioneer this hybrid of delicate and natural instrumentation with microscopic electronics and subtle digital processing bringing an organic richness to a genre that threatened to remain coldly digital. Fans of Minamo not lucky enough to see them create their music live have enjoyed their studio albums and collaborative releases which captured these performances and processed them into hypnotic drones and electro-acoustic soundscapes. Dur?e, their last studio work since 2007's collaboration with Tape, and their follow-up to Shining on 12k (12k1031, now out of print), takes influence from the French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson's concept of 'pure dur?e,' an idea that one's consciousness is a constant flow and not something that can be divided, reversed, or measured. Minamo used these ideas in creating their music, despite the contradiction of the time-stamped CD format, to try to subvert the ideas of compartmentalized 'time' and 'space.' With a strong sense of non-linearity and flow taken from Bergson's ideas, Minamo have created a colorful, skittering wash of music, noise, and texture that embraces a sense of out-there-ness. Minamo are Yuichiro Iwashita (acoustic guitar, percussion), Namiko Sasamoto (keyboards, saxophone, percussion), Keiichi Sugimoto (electric guitar, computer, nintendo, bells, recording/mixing) and Tetsuro Yasunaga (percussion, harmonium, analog synthesizer, pedals, small instruments). Like all of their music, Dur?e was recording during long, live, improvisational sessions and later finessed and mixed in the studio for release. Their process this time around, however, was much more analog than before. While they have always incorporated guitars, computers and synthesizers into their work, Dur?e captured performances created with an abundance of acoustic and percussion instruments and analog synths, keeping digital effects to a minimum and preferring the dirty sound of guitar pedals. The process this time around came easier due to the natural musical communication built between the members over the past 10 years. Dur?e simply finds more playing and interaction than editing and programming as compared to previous releases and, according to Sugimoto, is finally the mark where Minamo wants to be, and a template for work to come."


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