Late Spring, by Chihei Hatakeyama

Late Spring

by Chihei Hatakeyama

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Vinyl release date: May 28

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1.	Breaking Dawn 02:43	buy track
2.	Rain Funeral 04:04	buy track
3.	Butterfly's Dream 03:25	buy track
4.	Sound of Air 04:00	buy track
5.	Sound of Air II 03:31	buy track
6.	Spica 02:48	buy track
7.	Thunder Ringing in the Distance 04:37	buy track
8.	Memory in the Screen 03:29	buy track
9.	Butterfly's Dream II 03:30	buy track
10.	Long Shadows 04:39	buy track
11.	Twilight Sea 06:05	buy track

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日本語は英語の後に続きます。

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"Consumed in its entirety Late Spring is a soothing breeze, teleporting you directly to a grassy field in the sunshine – as transfixing as any record released thus far in 2021." - The Vinyl Factory

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Japanese musician Chihei Hatakeyama is set to release his new album ‘Late Spring’ on 9th April 2021. An album of a humble nature, ‘Late Spring’ gently unfolds as a shared journeying experience through a series of rich and outstanding encounters.

An extract from the liner notes by Nick Luscombe:

"For an artist who typically works quickly, Hatakeyama considers Late Spring to be one of the more time-intensive records of his career – he started working on it in 2018, and completed it towards the end of 2020. For Late Spring, Hatakeyama re-examined his approach to musical performance, using a new amplifier and microphone set-up to playback and record his guitar and synthesisers. From the cathedral organ-like opener Breaking Dawn with its sub-aqua resonances, to the subtle drift of the closing track Twilight Sea, this record is a masterpiece of dense and beatific melodies. Drawn from evolving synthesised sounds and shimmering slow motion guitars, it combines these with occasional sonic elements that are best described as evoking computer code running through the veins of the machines like artificial blood."

Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist, mastering engineer, and record label founder who was born in 1978 and lives in Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope alongside Tomoyoshi Date. From his first full-length album ‘Minima Moralia’ (“Excellent” 8.1 Pitchfork) in 2006, through the subsequent 70+ albums that followed, Hatakeyama has created a mighty canon of work. His catalogue is spread across a number of highly-regarded labels, including Kranky, Room40 and his own White Paddy Mountain imprint. His release rate is unquestionably impressive, but what is even more striking is the continual high quality of each alluring album.

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国内外のレーベルから現在にいたるまで多数の作品を発表し、日本を代表するアンビエント/ドローン・ミュージック・シーンを牽引する存在となったChihei Hatakeyamaこと畠山地平。Spotifyの2017年「海外で最も再生された国内アーティスト」ではトップ10にランクインするなど、これまでも海外での人気が高かった彼が、この度イギリスの<Gearbox Records>からの第一弾作品となるアルバム『Late Spring』を発売する。

今作は、一連の豊かで傑出した出会いを通して、共有された旅の経験を穏やかに展開していく。大聖堂のオルガンを思わせる1曲目「Breaking Dawn」の鳴り響く水中の反響から、アルバムを締めくくる「Twilight Sea」の巧妙なドリフトに至るまで、レコードは緻密で美しいメロディが詰まった傑作に仕上がっている。広がっていくシンセサイザーのサウンド、そして光り輝くスローモーションのギターに引き寄せられ、それが時折現れる音響要素と結びつく。その様は、まるで人工血液のように機械の脈を流れるコンピューター・コードを想起させる。

1949年の映画でタイトルを共有している日本の映画監督小津安二郎の作品に示されている通り、風景の循環運動の美しさと日常生活の下に横たわる季節の変化に触発されて、『Late Spring』は古い映画の印象を投影している。円運動のコンセプトは、畠山がデイヴィッド・リンチ監督の『ツイン・ピークス The Return』を観ていた時に思いついたという。

通常は仕事が早い方だというが、今回の作品は自身のキャリアの中で最も時間のかかった作品の一枚だったとか。2018年に始まった制作作業は、作品が完成した2020年まで続いた。彼は、ギターとシンセの再生と録音に新しいアンプとマイクのセットアップを使用して、自身の演奏へのアプローチを再検討した。メロディとトーンを単純化するために、彼はトラックごとに1種類の楽器のみを使用し、1つはシンセのみ、もう1つはエレキ・ギターのみを使用したという。

2006年にリリースし、ピッチフォークでも8.1点の高評価を獲得した彼のファースト・フル・アルバム『Minima Moralia』に続いて、これまで70枚を超えるアルバムを発表している畠山は、強力な仕事の規範を作り上げてきた。彼の目録は、〈Kranky〉や〈Room40〉といった数々の名高いレーベルから彼自身のレーベルである〈White Paddy Mountain〉に至るまで広がっている。彼の作品の放出率は紛れもなく素晴らしいが、それ以上に特筆すべきは、それぞれのアルバムがどれも魅力的で、高品質を保ち続けているということだ。

credits

released April 7, 2021

All music written, performed and mixed by Chihei Hatakeyama
Chihei plays electric guitar / acoustic guitar / sound effects / modular synth / α Juno / prophet-5 rev2 / MS20-mini
Recorded, edited and mixed between December 2017 to May 2020 Mastered by Gearbox
Artwork photo by Stijn Hüwels
Sleeve design by Alan Foulkes

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White Paddy Mountain 東京都, Japan

white paddy mountain is a small record label based in Japan.
Chihei Hatakeyama is A Sound Artist And Musician Living On The Outskirts Of Tokyo.
chihei-mastering.com

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