Label: LAAPS

廃盤。1997年にレーベル12kを設立、優れたミュージシャン及びサウンドアーティストの音源を発表し続けそのタイトル数は200近くにも及ぶ、長年に渡り様々な音楽シーンに影響を与え続けているニューヨークの音楽家Taylor Deupree。フランスの人気アンビエント・レーベルLAAPSより出版された2022年作[Harbor]を入荷。純粋なミニマリズムとも言える非常にシンプルな構造の楽曲が多く、靄がかったテクスチャー、ササクレた音像の多用等、彼なりのエラーの美学や不完全な美しさを表現した全8曲。LP版は限定300部。







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• 12’’ black vinyl
• Matt laminated outer sleeve + pantone on 300 gm paper
• Hand numbered / Limited edition to 300 copies
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Technology and imperfection. The raw and the processed. Curator and curated. Solo explorer and gregarious collaborator. The life and work of Taylor Deupree are less a study in contradictions than a portrait of the multidisciplinary artist in a still-young century.

Deupree is an accomplished sound artist whose recordings, rich with abstract atmospherics, have appeared on numerous record labels, and well as in site-specific installations at such institutions as the ICC (Tokyo, Japan) and the Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (Yamaguchi, Japan). He started out, in the 1990s, making new noises that edged outward toward the fringes of techno, and in time he found his own path to follow. His music today emphasizes a hybrid of natural sounds and technological mediation. It’s marked by a deep attention to stillness, to an almost desperate near-silence. His passion for the studio as a recording instrument is paramount in his work, but there is no hint of digital idolatry. If anything, his music shows a marked attention to the aesthetics of error and the imperfect beauty of nature, to the short circuits not only in technological systems but in human perception.

And though there is an aura of insularity to Deupree’s work, he is a prolific collaborator, having collaborated with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Stephan Mathieu, Stephen Vitiello, Marcus Fischer, Christopher Willits, Kenneth Kirschner, Frank Bretschneider, Richard Chartier, Savvas Ysatis, Tetsu Inoue and others.

Deupree dedicates as much time to other people’s music as he does to his own. In 1997 he founded the record label 12k, which since then has released over 100 recordings by some of the most accomplished musicians and modern sound artists of our time. Many share with Deupree an interest in stark minimalism, but the label has also found room for, located a common ground with, the acoustic avant-garde, the instrumental derivations of post-rock, and the synthetic extremes of techno.

Deupree continues to evolve his sound with an ambition and drive that is masked by his music’s inherent quietude. He approaches each project with an expectation of new directions, new processes, and new junctures.

’’Harbor’’ is his fourteenth solo release.