Label: Art into Life - AIL025LP

2012年発表の1st LP [Music For Hurdy Gurdy]、2013年発表の1st カセット[Naked Tape And Others]、いずれもハーディーガーディ演奏を中心に構築した作品ながら、柔らかく霞んだ質感、随所に使われた日常の風景音、作品に関与する全ての要素をフラットな位置で捉え、独自の小さな箱庭的世界を作り出した音楽家"赤石拓海"。自身の体験を更に積み上げる様な形で作られた、美しくも歪んだ記憶の描写が続く6年振りの新作[Memoria]。

染色されたガーゼでLPジャケットを包んだ、赤石氏本人による手製ジャケット仕様(背面に貼られたコラージュ画は一点一点異なります)。限定200部。





Takumi Akaishi’s music is like a delicate shadow box garden, a miniature sonic world unto itself. Following the release of his debut LP Music for Hurdy Gurdy (2012) and first cassette tape Naked Tape and Others (2013), Akaishi garnered critical acclaim for his fidelity to the hurdy gurdy mantle, filtered through a uniquely gentle, almost hazy touch. His tracks are interjected with ambient noise culled from the quotidian cityscape, complementing the characteristic “flatness” underpinning his oeuvre. Memoria represents the culmination of six years in incubation, the distillation of experience relived in the form of beautifully distorted memory.

Handmade album jacket swathed in dyed gauze. Each jacket features a one-of-a-kind collage by Akaishi.

Limited edition of 200.

side a

1. Barber's Bells
2. Memoria
3. Some Wounds
4. Lisbon , Hakodate

side b

5. The Patience Stone
6. Voices
7. Sea Change
8. Waterline

composed and performed by Takumi Akaishi

hurdy gurdy , tube amp ,Tapes

Memoria was recorded between 2006 and 2007, 2014, 2017 in Tokyo,Osaka,Yokohama,Hakodate,Lisbon

all images / found old magazine

edition size / 200 Copies

Special Thanks to Shingo Aoyagi and Manon Anne Gillis