Hisato Higuchi // Ki, Que, Kien? CD

東京のアンビエントフォーク作家Hisato Higuchiが、2022年3月にフランスのWV Sorcererからリリースした最新アルバムです。

歌にフォーカスした、彼の作品の中でもとりわけキャッチーな作品です。弾き語りアンビエント7曲を収録。デジパック、シュリンク仕様です。歌詞カード付属。

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- 6 panel digisleeve CD
- reverse board & printed inner spines
- w* full Japanese lyrics & Chinese translation

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WV Sorcerer Productions 巫唱片:

"After over two decades of releases on P.S.F. Records, Family Vineyard, Apollolaan and his own label Ghost Disc, WV Sorcerer is honored to present the latest physical release of Tokyo-based musician Hisato Higuchi (樋口寿人). An album of melancholy guitar melody and whispers, like a longshot of the overflowing light on the Tokyo street, a monologue from far away." 

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Reviews:

"Hisato is responsible for some of the most breathtaking, delicate, and smoke-filled guitar playing side of Loren Connors or the quieter sides of Keiji Haino. Those comparisons perhaps help to give an idea of where Hisato’s work floats, but it’s clear listening to him that his work is a very personal musical expression. His music is a Tokyo labourer’s blues. It evokes a ghost-like and ephemeral, auroral and sleep-deprived trance, his super slow and dreamlike guitar, sometimes lurking in feedback, sometimes barely touched, sketches out briefly heard whispers, exhausted emotional trembles. His vocals, when he drags himself exhausted to the mic, seem both distant and close, and just plain shattered; emotionally, spiritually, physically. In its weightlessness, it often feels as if each song has been carried to you on the slightest of breezes, and that a change in the wind would carry it elsewhere."
- arika.org.uk

"I’ve been a huge admirer of Higuchi’s work for years, but this album hit differently. There’s a fragility to these minimal guitar and vocal compositions that feels just like 2020 felt – hanging on by the thinnest threads, riding wave after endless wave until you think you will break, only to stave off the breakdown by the slimmest of margins… and then you do it all again. It’s a beautiful, impactful album."
- Brad Rose

Artist : Hisato Higuchi 樋口寿人

Label : WV Sorcerer Productions 巫唱片