Label: IIKKI

2008年頃より主に他者とのセッション音源を発表し始め、現音の老舗ModeやImportant Records、Moving Furniture Records、God Records等々、様々な良質レーベルに40作以上もの音盤を残している英国出身の実力派クラリネット・プレイヤーGareth Davis。今回の新作はフランスの人気アンビエントレーベルIIKKIから。IIKKIのラインナップの中では実験的な部類に入る一枚ですが、MachinefabriekことRutger ZuyderveltやマルチインストゥルメンタリストのSteven R. Smithのサポート受け6つの抽象持続音/サウンドスケープを生み出す事に成功。程よい暗さのあるアンビエント作となっています。ミニマルなジャケットも非常にカッコイイ。LP版は限定300。







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• Cutting lacquer
• 12’’ vinyl
• Matt laminated outer sleeve
• Silkscreen printing on 350 gm paper, black inner
• Hand numbered / Limited edition to 300 copies
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Gareth Davis is an artist, composer and musician living in Amsterdam.
He plays clarinet(s), the result of a somewhat impulsive purchase whilst window shopping in Covent Garden, London, around ten years before the turn of the century. The serendipitous location of a rather wonderful (and equally important, rather cheap) second hand record shop less than 10m from the bus stop required for seven years of schooling, combined with delivering newspapers on a daily basis, lead to a somewhat eclectic, dusty and generally unclassified taste in music.

The result. Activity covering sonic art and contemporary classical music through rock, improvisation and noise with collaborations that have included the premiering of new written pieces by composers such as Bernhard Lang, Peter Ablinger, Toshio Hosokawa and Jonathan Harvey, soloist with orchestras including the SWR Symphonieorchester, Warsaw Philharmonic and Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, performances with groups and performers ranging from the Neue Vocalsolisten and Arditti Quartet through to improvisers Elliott Sharp and Frances Marie Uitti, electronic artists Robin Rimbaud and Merzbow and multimedia work with artists including Christian Marclay and Peter Greenaway.

"In Vivo" is his second solo releases after to have recorded a bunches of collaboratives albums with some music artists such as Scanner, Machinefabriek, Steven R. Smith, Kleefstra Brothers, Frances-Marie Uitti, Merzbow, Adain Baker, Duane Pitre and more...