KK039
cat#
KK039
title:
Mujo
artist:
Kazuya Matsumoto
time:
DISC1 68' 07" DISC2 68' 12"
format:
2CD

tracklist

D1
-
1.
彼誰 Dawn
2.
鐵に花 Winter Flowers on Iron
3.
住処 Habitation
4.
点 Dot
5.
浮舟 Floating Boat
6.
氷平線 Frozen Horizon
7.
網 Net
8.
雨ではない雪でもない Rain nor Snow
9.
白い闇 White Darkness
10.
汀 Waterside
11.
誰彼 Dim
12.
夜は山から風が吹く Wind Blows from the Mountain at Night
13.
鐵冱つる On the Center of the Lake
14.
ひとひとひと Hitohitohito
15.
根 Root
16.
今はもうない Now Gone

D2
-
1.
脈 Pulse
2.
母胎 Mother’s Womb
3.
熱源 Energy Source
4.
世界 World
5.
漂流 Drift  
6.
領域 Territory 
7.
交差点 Node
8.
沈潜 Sink Deeply
9.
宇宙 Universe
10.
鐵冴ゆる Sinking into the Cold
11.
100℃ ↔ -30℃
12.
生き物 Creature
13.
風ではない波でもない Wind nor Wave
14.
余白 Space
15.
差異 Difference
16.
境界線のデバイス Device on the Border
17.
回転する時間 Endless Loops of Time


Sound cloud sound sample trailer:

https://soundcloud.com/kazuya-matsumoto/3rd-mujo-trailer

You Tube visual&sound trailer:

https://youtu.be/LuQwolmoP24

Text by Kazuya Matsumoto

“Mujo” is my third album on SPEKK. The album was made from 2014 to 2022. All together 9 years of time but over 10 years including the research period. It is an album of improvisation and recording simultaneously, using non-instrument objects along with the sounds that occur from a frosted lake and drifting ice, and recordings made by affecting the environment itself. This album is comprised of 2 discs. Disc 1 features performing and interaction with sounds that occurs above the ice. Disc 2 features performing and interaction with sounds that occurs below the ice using hydrophones.

Recommendation notes

+ Taylor Deupree

I spent a long time listening deeply to “Mujo” during the mastering process and the quality and clarity of the recordings make the ice a highly tactile, living, breathing organism. It is nature displaying subtlety and power at the same time.

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