Artist：Sawako
Album：Madoromi
Release Date：2007-10-15
Label：Anticipate Recordings
Country：Japan
Genre： Electronic
Style： Experimental, Ambient
Tracklisting:
| 1 | August Neige (7:00) | |
| 2 | It's Not On Purpose (3:46) | |
| 3 | Uta Tane (5:59) | |
| 4 | Passepass (3:15) | |
| 5 | Appled Soapbox (3:46) | |
| 6 | Kira Kira (3:22) | |
| 7 | Purple Sky Coming (6:38) | |
| 8 | Far Away (6:41) | |
| 9 | Tiny Tiny (1:36) |
簡介。。。。。。
Sawako's previous forays into lowercase audio sculpting have been published by such estimable imprints as 12k, and/oar and Community Library. This latest collection of pieces finds the Tokyo-based sound artist on top form too, shaping small, domestic-sounding pieces culled from a variety of location recordings, incidental noises and instrumental ramblings. Sawako has much in common with similarly-minded Japanese artists like Mondii, Ken Ikeda, or even Moskitoo and Piana, albeit devoid of any dominant vocal presence (despite the freeform utterances on 'August Neige' these pieces are focussed on abstract ambience), yet there's something very distinctive about the grasp on melody, which always seems to be at the forefront of these compositions, even if it is somewhat more subtle than on your standard pop fare. The likes of 'It's Not On Purpose', 'Kira Kira' and 'Applied Soapbox' could easily be mistaken for the work of Colleen, such is Sawako's skilful collision of organic sound sources and shapeshifting electroacoustic treatments. Excellent.(from boomkat)
Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig. Sawako did live performances in Japan (offsite, metro, uplink, trees are so special etc.), USA (TONIC etc), Paris (batofar) and London (resonance FM), and has collaborated with a wide range of musicians such as Andrew Deutsch, Asuna, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Hayato Aoki, Hypo, RF, Heller, marcel türkowsky, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura and Taylor Deupree.
我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數：7.6/10 Sawako is a Tokyo/NYC-based sound sculptor who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. After beginning in video art, Sawako shifted her focus from the video camera to sound. Once through the processor named Sawako, sounds in everyday life - field recordings, instruments, voice and electronic sounds - float in space vividly with a digital yet organic texture. Her unique sonic world has been called "post romantic sound" by Boston's Weekly Dig. Sawako did live performances in Japan (offsite, metro, uplink, trees are so special etc.), USA (TONIC etc), Paris (batofar) and London (resonance FM), and has collaborated with a wide range of musicians such as Andrew Deutsch, Asuna, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Hayato Aoki, Hypo, RF, Heller, marcel türkowsky, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura and Taylor Deupree.
Anticipate Recordings是我最近剛知道的一個厰牌，由Ezekiel Honig經營的，它的官方網站做的很不錯，地址是http://www.anticipaterecordings.com/。目前爲止只有四張發行，很少。所以準備把它的releases都聼一下。Sawako之前也在12k等其他一些厰牌發過碟，沒聼過之前的作品，無從比較，也不知道是個什麽樣子。Madoromi中Sawako慢條斯理地營造著她的音樂空間，前半部分不斷地使用叮叮鈴鈴的聲音，讓我想起Yuko Ikoma。還有長長的電音，氛圍朦朧空靈，還時不時飄來天籟般的人聲，又有些Piana的感覺。結尾很奇怪，像未完成似的戛然而止，讓我有些費解。但無論如何Sawako Kato還是獨特的，有著自己獨特風格和個性的飄渺電聲。
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