Passepartout Duo and Inoyama Land // Radio Yugawara LP [COLOR]

Tobiraインストアショーケースでも素晴らしいライブを披露してくれたPassepartout Duoと、日本のアンビエントデュオInoyama Landが、2024年7月にイギリス・ロンドンのTonal Unionから150部限定でリリースした共作レコードです。

ポストニューエイジ・アンビエント11曲＋ロックドグルーブを収録。赤盤です。

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12" transparent red vinyl inc locked groove. Edition of 150. 

Tracklist:

1. Strange Clouds 03:33
2. Abstract Pets 03:33
3. Simoom 05:18
4. Tangerine Fields 04:20
5. Observatory 03:05
6. Mosaic 04:44
7. King in a Nutshell 02:56
8. Xiloteca 04:20
9. Solivago 04:52
10. Berceuse 01:45
11. Axolotl Dreams 03:52

Text excerpt by Total Union:

"...Radio Yugawara' was recorded in 2023 in Makoto Inoue’s hometown of Yugawara where his family runs a kindergarten, whose space has doubled as a Sunday recording studio. Upon arriving a circle of four tables was set up in the school’s auditorium - the tables were carefully populated with children’s instruments: a full set of handbells, a glockenspiel, a xylophone, recorders, melodicas, and harmonicas. Surrounding the tables were racks hanging all sorts of bells and wind chimes and within this environment each performer set up their own electronic instruments. Dialling into each other, a simple set of playground ‘game rules’ was devised where time was divided into three separate sessions (1) ‘only electronic instruments’, ‘only acoustic’, and ‘a mix of both’, (2) ‘revolving duets’ each taking turns to play through a cycle of ‘four duos’ and (3) ‘anything permitted’, accumulating to more than three hours of material which was then carefully distilled into succinct tracks. The alluring album opener ‘Strange Clouds’ oscillates into view, setting a lush scenery built from a bed of synthesisers and the first glimpse of the chromaplane, the hand-built analogue instrument designed by Passepartout Duo, featuring a touchless interface and endless organic sounds that underpin the album’s 11-track inlets. Percussive pulses act as the heartbeat to ‘Abstract Pets’ before earthy sub-swells open the pathway to glistening glockenspiels and wind chimes. The atmosphere shapeshifts with ‘Simoom’ and ‘Tangerine Fields’ with swirling synth lines and subliminal beats resembling changes in weather patterns. At the centre points the idyllic ‘Observatory’ and ‘Mosaic’ could illuminate the deepest oceans before the hypnotic, arpeggiating synth lines in the otherworldly ‘Xiloteca’ propel the album towards ‘Solivago’, with its gentle lullaby of playful ambience. The reflective closer ‘Axolotl Dreams’ resolves their somewhat chance meeting with elegant pastoral chord strokes and uplifting synth swells, sending final signals upwards into the ether..."

Artist : Passepartout Duo and Inoyama Land

Label : Total Union

CAT No : U007LR