Label: PLANCHA

ドローン/ミニマルの開祖的存在であるYoshi Wadaの息子Tashi Wadaによるソロアルバム!!2014年に自身のSalternから発表した[Duets]以来10年振りとなるアルバム[What Is Not Strange?]。父の死と娘の誕生を挟んだ期間に作曲/録音されたものであり、自身はシンセサイザーを担当、パートナーJulia Holterを含む4人の演奏家と仕上げた作品。バロック時代のフランスの作曲家・音楽理論家ジャン＝フィリップ・ラモーの音律に基づきシンセをチューニング、自身の最も遠大で情熱的な音楽を纏めた傑作。









What Is Not Strange? is the first full-length solo album by Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada, comprising his most far-reaching and impassioned music to date. Written and recorded over a period that encompassed the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, the album sees Wada reflecting inward to explore broad narratives—being alive, mortality, finding one’s place in the world—through new modes of ecstatic, song-based expression. While the denser forms, stark contrasts, and overt surreality may carry a different weight than Wada’s earlier work, which elicited perceptual effects with minimal means, the heart of What Is Not Strange? is still in experimentation and unforeseen outcomes.

Ezra Buchla – viola, electric viola
Corey Fogel – drums, percussion
Devin Hoff – double bass
Julia Holter – vocals, additional keyboard
Tashi Wada – keyboards, sirens