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。

2023年9月東京・高円寺のGallery Tataにて行われたSilverGelatin（古書・キュレーション）の展示のための音楽として作成されたこの作品は、Tataの店内にある古時計や床、古物、紙の音を用いて作成されました。Dateの従来の調性がとられた作品とは異なり、ギャラリーTataへの入場から黄泉の国へと誘われるような、アルバム全体がひとつのストーリーとして構成されています。三部作のジャケットに用いられている写真は、silver gelatinが発掘した、写真技術黎明期である明治後期から大正時代の写真です。これらの作品たちは、歴史的な価値を凌駕して、作品そのものの深淵な美しさを、時と共に増しながら、展示会場にファウンド・フォトとして飾られていました。Tataは名もなき人々とその時間へのオマージュとなっています。
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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.

(2) “Tata”

Created as music for the Silver Gelatin exhibition (featuring antique books and curation) held at Gallery Tata in Koenji, Tokyo, in September 2023, this work incorporates sounds of antique clocks, the gallery’s floors, and aged objects and paper. Unlike Date’s previous works, this album forms a single, immersive story that takes listeners on a journey from entering the gallery to the underworld. The photographs used on the album covers are from the late Meiji to Taisho periods, discovered by Silver Gelatin and crafted during the early days of photographic technique. The identity of the photographers is unknown, and these works transcend historical value to reflect a deep, timeless beauty, displayed in the gallery as found photos. Tata is an homage to nameless people and their time.