Label: Tsuyukusa Records

パッケージデザインも素晴らしいピアノ録音三部作!!各限定150部のプライベートアイテム!!当店では主にフランスLAAPSからの音源を紹介して来た医師・音楽家のTomoyoshi Date氏。2021~2024年にかけて制作された、それぞれ異なるコンセプトを導入したピアノ三部作が一挙カセットフォーマットでリリース。古書販売を軸に興味深いアプローチを行う"Silver gelatin"が手掛けた紙ケース仕様。お見逃し無く。

世界で初めて三味線を五線譜に記した叔母から譲り受けたDIAPASONの古いピアノは、緩んでしまったひとつのペグのピッチ(2022年は438Hzであった)に合わせて、調律しなおされて録音されました。廃盤となった45回転のレコードでは、リスナーの環境に合わせてそのピッチを調整できる仕様であったのに対し、今作では昨今Dateが制作している432Hzのピッチに調整されて収録されています。デジタル配信とは異なるピッチで収録され、経年劣化によってそのピッチは少しずつ落ちていく仕様となっています。2024年９月、このピアノは432Hzの純正律に調律され、その続編が作成されています。
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Special jacket with found photo by Silver gelatin.
Limited 150 cassettes.

“Piano Trilogy” by Tomoyoshi Date

Tomoyoshi Date, a physician and musician known for his releases on prominent ambient labels such as 12K (US), LAAPS (France), and QuietDetails (UK), will release his piano trilogy, created between 2021 and 2024, on November 10 via Bandcamp in a limited edition of 150 cassettes.
This trilogy includes 438Hz, As it is, As you are, released by LAAPS and selected as one of Bandcamp’s Best Ambient albums in January 2023; Tata, composed for Silver Gelatin’s exhibit at Tata in Koenji, Tokyo; and Requiem, a piece dedicated in memory of a close friend who passed away too soon. All three albums are packaged in special jackets featuring found photographs curated by Silverわ Gelatin and are being released simultaneously.
Created with the theme of “objects and the passage of time,” this trilogy is characterised by elongated, repetitive piano motifs, microsound elements, and organic electronics, aiming to blur the line between rhythm and melody. Recently, Date has been working on a world-first program that auto-generates pure-intonation music (www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1BNEjMtL1o). This trilogy serves as a culmination of Date’s past compositions in equal temperament.

(1) “432Hz, As it is, As you are”

This album was recorded on an old DIAPASON piano that was passed down to Tomoyoshi Date from his aunt, the first person to notate shamisen music on a five-line staff. The piano was retuned to the pitch of one loosened peg (438Hz in 2022) for recording (As it is). On a discontinued 45 RPM record, listeners could adjust the pitch to their environment (As you are). For this release, the pitch has been adjusted to 432Hz, a frequency Date has recently been working with. As the music on cassette tape naturally degrades over time, its pitch will gradually drop. Between the unchanging digital version and the physical tape, an element of “time” emerges as an object in sound.