Various Artists (Lōʻihi Records) // Broken Cassette, Vol. 1 TAPE

ハワイ・ホノルルのアンビエントレーベルLōʻihi Recordsが、2025年9月にリリースしたコンピレーションカセットです。

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Cassette in norelco case.
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Tracklist:

1. Jonny Lam - Is That a Caterpillar? 07:56
2. Gahlord Dewald - CommandLine I 00:29
3. Max High - Magnificent Rain Tree 03:10
4. Gahlord Dewald - Command Line III 00:29
5. Illnomadic - In the Shade of the Queen's Magnolia × Alba 08:00
6. Floteson - Tidelines 04:11
7. Gahlord Dewald - CommandLine IV 00:29
8. T.J. Keanu Tario - Hulali 08:51
9. Gahlord Dewald - CommandLine V 00:29
10. Jessica Ackerley - Ice Pulse 05:14

From the label:

"On March 20, 2025, Gahlord Dewald and I got together in Mānoa to evaluate the condition of his 4-track cassette recorders. During the process — using a handful of his analog synth modules — we recorded an 18-minute long, four-part drone. He shared the digitized stems that evening and while noodling over them with my guitar, I thought — "it would be fun to see what some of our friends would do with this…". The result is the incredible variety of creative ideation on this cassette.

None of the artists involved heard each other's work during the course of production, so the album is a bit like theme and variations, and a bit like exquisite corpse.

On Side One, the music ranges from Jonny Lam's psychedelic-ambient steel guitar exploration, to Max High's shimmering, flute-driven meditation with Floteson, and ends with Navid Najafi's minimalist, hip-hop inflected ode to a tree planted by Queen Lili'uokalani.

Side Two opens with a floating neo-soul chordal figure by Floteson, and a guitar improvisation for his late, jazz-trumpeter father. The drone continues into T.J. Keanu Tario's classically influenced reverie for solo piano (recorded on the gorgeous Yamaha grand at Island Sound Studios by the legendary Gaylord Holomalia). The album closes with Jessica Ackerley eschewing her guitar for the open space of field recordings and subtle sonic manipulations of the drone itself.

Gahlord Dewald created a number of pieces he describes as etudes, using command-line tools to randomly concatenate different length segments of the drones, mimicking old school tape processes. These serve as interstitial bridges between the tracks — on the cassette, they turn each side into one seamless experience (the digital version plays as discrete tracks). "

Artist : Various

Label : Lōʻihi Records

Release date : 26th September 2025