kuwayama
- kijima / 00.10.17 ( 7inch by 20 city New Zealand /
Japan )
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kuwayama
kiyoharu : cello
kijima rina : violin
recorded at construction field of the expressway Nagoya
City Japan
Cover
by Kuwayama Kiyoharu
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Midnight at a construction
site in Naogoya, Japan, large and particularly loud
fan vent whirling, Kuwayama Kiyoharu and Kijima Rina
hit record and begin to play. Kuwayama uses a cello
and Kijima a violin. Its an eerie setting to be recording,
and the improvisations that flow from their instruments
carry this beautifully. Setting seems to be a fairly
important part of their recording technique as their
full length cd, available on GG Records (www.lethe-voice.com/gg),
was recorded in a large Warehouse. The space around
them in those recordings is also very clear. Some truely
fabulous stuff from this improv duo. Kijima Rina has
a number of solo tapes out, Kuwayama Kiyoharu is very
active in a number of groups in Nagoya. Together they
organise the annual week-long Lethe-Voice Festival in
Nagoya which brings together a diverse collection of
Japanese and international sound makers. Kuwayama's
solo work also featured on the split 7" with Toy.Bizarre
(20C-5) under the name Lethe. |
KUWAYAMA-KIJIMA - 00/10/17D
00/10/17E (7" by 20city)
This was a difficult one: I thought I could tell at
what speed I should play this, because I was sure I
would hear it from the instruments: cello and violin.
Not so, another glitch in my ego. So I decided to play
it at 45 rpm, because it sounded best to me. These two
japanese impro musicians have been working together
for quite while now, and one can hear this. It is almost
impossible to tell where one starts and the other stops
and vice versa. Another interesting aspect of their
collaboration is the fact that they play on the starngest
locations. In this case it's the construction site of
an expressway, creating a permanent hum in the background,
with people occasionally walking around. The combination
of 'real' instruments with this background noise is
fascinating, because the duo sometimes works with this
noise and sometimes against it, creating an exciting
tension throughout the record. Well done again. (MR)
vital weekly |
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