Label: Art into Life - AIL019

ハーフ・スケールのバイオリンや日用品、ガラクタ等を用い1988年より制作を開始した名古屋の作家 桑山清晴/Lethe。多くの作家との共演や共作を経た後、放棄された巨大スペースの残響を利用したシリーズ作品 "Catastrophe Point" に着手 (現在も継続中)。今回音盤化されたのはギターワークスを中心とした90年代中期から後期に掛けての録音。5パートからなる1999年の録音 [Electric Guitar Solo]をLPに、それとは趣の異なる1995-1998年のテープ録音 [Interference]をカセットで収録した2フォーマット作品。現行の作風とは違う沸々とした濃密な衝動が確認出来る。

ジャケット、インサート、ポスター、カード、付属品全て桑山氏が撮影した写真をもとに作製したイメージをシルクスクリーンで刷った作家本人による手製仕様(すべて内容は異なります)。限定100セット。





Kiyoharu Kuwayama (Lethe) is a Nagoya-based artist who began creating work in 1988 using a halftone-scale violin, household items, and other assorted found junk. After numerous collaborative performances and recordings, he began the ongoing "Catastrophe Point" series which makes use of the resonant qualities of huge abandoned industrial buildings.
For this release, we have chosen two pieces of his guitar work from the mid to late 90s. The release is a dual format LP and cassette set, with the five-part "Electric Guitar Solo" recorded in 1999 on the LP, and the very different tape recording "Interference" on the cassette. Both pieces are very different in feel to Kuwayama's more recent work, ripe with dense and seething impulses.

Individually silkscreened packaging (each set is unique) by Kuwayama himself. The jacket, insert, poster, cards, etc are all silkscreened images based on Kuwayama's original photography. Limited edition of 100.


Electric Guitar Solo 1999 [LP]

SIDE A
1 Five minutes Fifty Nine seconds
2 Five minutes Twenty seconds
3 Eleven minutes Eight seconds

SIDE B
1 Three minutes Thirty Nine seconds
2 Twelve Minutes Forty Seven seconds


Interference 1995~1998 [Cassette]

SIDE A
1 Four minutes Twenty Nine seconds
2 Seven minutes Sixteen seconds
3 Five minutes Thirty Six seconds
4 Five minutes Twenty Two seconds
5 Three minutes Twenty Five seconds

SIDE B
1 Eleven minutes Thirty Three seconds
2 Ten minutes One seconds
3 Three minutes Twenty Nine seconds

Edition of 100 on High Bias C-56 cassette.