Lieven Martens // In Hirokazu-San's Office, Dried Tea Leaves Are Waiting To Speak (Anecdotes) CD

ベルギーの実験／アンビエントレーベルEdições CN主宰Dolphins Into The Future aka Lieven Martensが、2024年5月に150部限定でリリースしたCDです。

京都・宇治でのフィールドレコーディング7曲を収録。DLコード付属。

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Includes DL code. Edition of 150. 

Tracklist:

1. Matter Flows I 02:40
2. Matter Flows II 04:05
3. Matter Flows III 04:42
4. Matter Flows IV 05:42
5. Matter Flows V 04:52
6. Matter Flows VI 03:28
7. Matter Flows VII 03:55

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Edições CN:

"We are inside the office of Hirokazu-San, the director of Ujikoen. Ujikoen is a historical tea company based in Kizugawa near Kyoto.

There’s four of us
Kojima Hirokazu : director of the tea company
Kazuki Tomita : a translator hired for our project
Floris Vanhoof : multimedia artist
Lieven Martens : sound recordist

In this office Hirokazu-San tastes and slurps tea every day. Carefully he boils the water, selects the leaves, tastes the harvest, sip. Rounding up to about 300.000 sips - or more? - during his years studying for, and being a, teamaster.

He blends with his tongue. Carefully combining different leaves from different soils. I had no idea they blended tea in this Geuze/Champagne manner.

Our sounding slurping becomes a factory machine. His laughter is a bird call. The ringle of tableware as a polyrhythm. The digital chimes flowing over the village, a motif. The bell from the surrounding temple cuts the wind. And during the observation in the mountains, an artist forgets his shoes, what is celebrated by horseflies.

The sounds lead our thoughts to various directions. As a magical realistic play of a few people sitting in an office space.

I walk outside the factory building. I walk around it. A faint smell of cat pee. The gravel makes sound under my sandals. I look up and see an airplane carefully drawing a straight line in the sky.

A memory comes with every taste. It will be a blend.

This story takes place in the Uji region where the highest standard tea leaves are grown. Because of the mist, the air, the blue mountains, the people, … And in this particular office, in this factor building, in this village. I think about and follow every sound. To what was and where it goes.  "

Artist : Lieven Martens

Label : Edições CN