Label: Constructive

クリス・ワトソンからジョン・ケージまでを手掛ける英SN Variationsの姉妹レーベルConstructiveより、コンポーザーにしてストリングス・プレイヤー波多野敦子氏の新プロジェクト"Triola"の音源が登場!!他作品でも共演している須原杏氏との弦楽ユニットであり、本作には更に石橋英子氏、山本達久氏、千葉広樹氏、澁谷浩次氏ら豪華ゲストが参加。「架空のオペラ」をコンセプトに作り上げた全11のトラックからなるシネマティックな構成となっており、軽快且つクールなストリングスを中心としながらも多彩な実験要素を取り込んだ高内容。ミックスはジム・オルーク氏が担当。







Edition of 200 4 panel gatefold CDs with booklet

‘Scapegoat’ is the new album by TRIOLA, the project led by the prolific Tokyo-based composer & experimental string musician Atsuko Hatano, featuring the Japanese violinist Anzu Suhara.
Conceived as a string project, with Hatano on viola, cello, bass and Suhara on violin, TRIOLA involves a rotating ensemble of guest musicians, including the likes of Chicago-born musician, composer & producer Jim O’Rourke (Drag City, Sonic Youth, Steamroom), the composer & musician Eiko Ishibashi (Drag City, Black Truffle), Australian composer Joe Talia (Touch, Room40, Feeding Tube Records), Yamaguchi-born drummer Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (releases on Black Truffle, Longform Editions, SUPERPANG, performances with Keiji Haino, Oren Ambarchi & Phew +++), Sendai-based vocalist & musician Koji Shibuya (Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Yumbo) & many more.

‘Scapegoat’ follows the 2019 album release by TRIOLA entitled ‘Chiral’, and although recorded as an instrumental opus, ‘Scapegoat’ is described by Hatano as an ‘imaginary opera’, comprising eleven ‘scenes’ connected by one overarching drama, with a song or a poem scripted for each composition. Exploring the symbolism of light, space, and precious gemstones, as well as themes of solitude, memory, self-fulfilment, self-deception, rebirth, and reinvention, TRIOLA masterfully shape exquisite, free-flowing movements of strings and percussion, marked by subtle infiltrations of aleatoric electronics and found sound.