Label: An'archives

当店ではT・坂口氏のレーベルNEURECからの諸作を紹介している"ばねとりこ"が初のLPフォーマット作を発表!!ロサンゼルスでの長年の音楽活動を経て、現在は大阪拠点に活動を展開するTamaki Ueda氏のソロプロジェクト"Banetoriko"。毎度重厚な装丁の出版を行う仏An'archivesより1st LPをリリース。自作金属楽器"Banetek"の摩擦及び衝突音と呪文の様なオブスキュアボーカルが漂い、まさに主軸のコンセプトである妖怪(本作では片輪車と輪入道)のサウンドイメージを紡いでいます。(ご購入時、帯のカラーは選択頂けません)





LP ltd to 315, black vinyl, 2 color (gold and black) silkscreened jacket with obi (black or paver red), inserts and a postcard

Kata No Wadachi is the latest album by Banetoriko, the solo noise project of Tamaki Ueda. Her first release both on An’archives and on vinyl, it follows several albums for the Neurec imprint – 2017’s Beside the Sluice and 2022’s Yorioto Hogiokuri – and several other cassettes and CD-Rs. With Kata No Wadachi, the Banetoriko world, inspired by the Yokai (“strange apparitions” – supernatural figures, ghosts, spirits) of Japanese folklore, is at its most resonant yet.
Recorded across 2022 and 2023, the three tracks on Kata No Wadachi have Ueda performing in a particularly elevated manner. Her sound is highly tactile and grittily sensuous, the better to capture the ritualistic repetitions, and hypnotic methodologies, core to Banetoriko. The scrape and scratch of Ueda’s self-made metal instrument, the Banetek, gives these improvisations a unique throb, even as their mood, of introverted focus and elaboration of minutiae, gestures towards broader histories of noise and abstract art. Kata No Wadachi evokes, to some degree, the urban ritual noise of the likes of The New Blockaders, Organum, or Ferial Confine; elsewhere, the abraded, rough-housing textures bring to mind the eighties tape works of Hands To and John Hudak.
Ueda embraces the dream evocation that’s possible when loops of blurred texture collide with the gnaw and groan of energised metal, while mantric, dissociated vocals, and the oppressive weight of deep breath, gather around these compositions like a ghost’s shroud. While she’s been making noise for some time, since the nineties, Banetoriko was formalised as a project in 2011, while Ueda lived in Los Angeles. Relocating to Osaka in 2021, she’s carved out an utterly unique space for herself in Japanese noise, and her music contains an absolutely elemental vibration. Framed beautifully with poetic liner notes by Aurélien Rossanino, Kata No Wadachi is an oppressive, yet quixotically blissful trip.