Label: WV Sorcerer Productions

名演ライブレコーディング!!フランス及び中国をベースに東アジア圏の録音を出版する気鋭レーベルWV Sorcerer Productions。大友良英氏を中心に結成、Ryu Hankil(韓国)、Yan Jun(中国)、Yuen Chee Wai(シンガポール)、アジア各地のミュージシャンで構成される即興音楽プロジェクトFEN(Far East Network)。2017年、京都の二条城にて披露したライブパフォーマンス5テイクがCDフォーマットで登場。"終わりのない音楽"を追求する完全即興なグループであり、不穏な音響の放射、またその響きに心地良い瞬間が訪れる等、不均衡な進行がとにかくスリリング。6パネルデジスリーブ。







- 6 panel digisleeve CD
- reverse board & printed inner spines

FEN (Far East Network) is:
Otomo Yoshihide 大友良英 (Japan)
Ryu Hankil 柳漢吉 (South Korea)
Yan Jun 顏峻 (China)
Yuen Chee Wai 袁志偉 (Singapore)

A live recording in Nijō Castle (二条城, built in the 17th century), Kyoto, Japan, 2017.

This gig was one of a series of official and semi-official events. Because of Otomo Yoshihide's connections, FEN could attend some events with international travel expenses covered, and every time we take the opportunity to make a tour again or do something else, this concert was the same. After Kyoto’s gig, we toured in some other cities too. The expenses ended up being just barely even, but it was still quite enjoyable. One day with a luxurious reception, and the next day in a punk squat, touring is always like that. The space for this show is inside Nijō Castle, a historical-cultural monument. The acoustic there is special. To protect from assassins back then, the shogun built a floor that can generate the sound of birds chirping when people step on it. We tried and it really chirped. But that was not a part of the performance then.

- Yan Jun

FEN (Far East Network) is an improvised music project group made up of musicians from different parts of Asia. The quartet comprises Otomo Yoshihide (Japan), Ryu Hankil (Korea), Yan Jun (China) and Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore). FEN was started by globally renowned musician Otomo Yoshihide and it made its debut 2008 at MIMI Festival in Marseilles, France. Following its debut, FEN has performed extensively throughout Europe and all across Asia.

Each member is an artist who works individually in experimental music scene in his respective country. Each has been supporting each other's activities by organizing concerts in his own country, and this relationship became the motivation to form FEN.

FEN pursues 'performing together by improvisation' as a method and 'music without ends' as an outcome. While FEN is an improvisational music group it is at the same time an idea or concept which hopes to maintain unique aesthetics and sustainable relationships in diverse Asian cultures. FEN's activities explore aesthetic possibilities in new forms of music which are different from the Western world. FEN's goals are to become a foundation and to organize diverse meetings to support other sustainable networks and cultural exchanges among many other experimental musicians and artists in and throughout Asia. FEN further hopes to work with musicians and artists of other disciplines (traditional and contemporary) from all across Asia.