Lullatone // Shapes & Time CD+ZINE

名古屋のシンセ奏者／ポストニューエイジ作家Lullatoneが、2022年にリリースしたCD+ZINEです。

穏やかなポストニューエイジ・アンビエント12曲を収録。32ページのZINEにはイラストやエッセイ、ギターTAB譜、写真が掲載されています。

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Includes DL code. 
Risograph printed zine with CD inside. 
32-page zine contains essays, illustrations, sheet music, guitar tabs, photos and more.

Tracklist:

1. a tape of a tape of a tape of a time 02:08
2. kotatsu naps 03:18
3. corduroy 01:49
4. shapes in time 03:30
5. like grains of sand in your hand 03:30
6. make-believe birdsong 02:34
7. rainy season again 02:10
8. every movie needs a sad scene 02:28
9. like pebbles in a stream 04:41
10. late summer storms 02:40
11. just spending time 02:02
12. like breath 04:30

From the artist:

"I’ve always thought there's something magical about recordings that sound rough and unpolished. It’s as if not sounding perfect makes them more sincere - like they’re telling the listener a little secret.

Choosing the way you record something isn’t just technical. It’s an aesthetic choice - like deciding the type of materials you’d use in a painting. Light and airy like a watercolor? Hyper detailed on a smooth surface like photorealism? Dreamy slabs of impressionistic oil? You could have the same subject but express it in a totally different way with all of these little decisions. The same rule goes for melodies too - an intimidating but exciting chance!

Compared to notes scribbled on a sheet of staff paper, or instruments strummed at a show, recorded music hangs on choices of texture. The shapes of the sounds’ waves enter your ear holes and tickle little hairs inside your head making music something you truly do feel.

For this album I wanted to explore ways of recording that we hadn’t tried on older records. New textures for the tones, new shapes for the sounds. So I split it up. Instead of recording everything all at once, I decided to give each one a bit of time - one track per month. At the end of year we were left with this album, a little family of soft-spoken experiments.

Although a lot of these melodies probably don’t seem “experimental” at first, they really were all born out of tiny trials and errors around the studio - some more ridiculous than you might imagine.

If you have a little time to spend, I’d love to tell you some stories about them in the info section of each track on here."

Artist : Lullatone

Label : Self-released