Artist : Marihiko Hara
Title : Credo
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2011
Date : 07/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Home Normal
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 41:41 min
Size : 65,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Mirage 03:21
02.Credo I 03:32
03.Credo II 03:41
04.Credo III 05:34
05.Terra Incognita 02:16
06.Trio 04:06
07.Credo IV 03:49
08.Credo V 04:50
09.Credo VI 06:02
10.Alter Ego 04:30
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41:41 min
I first came across Marihiko HaraÆs work
in 2007, with his æCesuraÆ release on
the excellent Italian net-label û
Zymogen. It really drew me in more than
most other work that was doing the
rounds at the same time. It had the sort
of organic details and attention to
beautiful subtle developments that I had
only really heard in offthesky and
Nicolas Bernier before (both label mates
on Zymogen I should add). It became my
soundtrack to that year and an album I
returned to almost daily during the
winter months. After this I followed
MarihikoÆs work carefully, from his
rather fantastic 2009 æIconÆ release on
Cotton Goods to his recent æProsaÆ
collaboration with Tomas Phillips on
Tench Records.
IÆm not entirely sure when we first got
in touch or who instigated it, but its
been a few years now and seeing
MarihikoÆs evolution and careful
development has been a joy to behold. He
then completely flummoxed me when
askingif I would consider releasing a
heavily beat-led record. My only
prerequisite was that the beats were
made organically, not just some obvious
drum machine or sample. MarihikoÆs
request came at a time when both Ben and
myself really wanted Home Normal to push
on from its comfortable surroundings
that so many labels, artists and
possibly listeners for that matter, wish
to reside û and keep things evolving,
changing and as such more meaningful for
us. After averaging 10 or so drone demos
a day at the time, the initial mixes for
Credo were sent. I was in England in
this period with Ben, tieing up the
latest Home Normal work. I recall that
we were actually driving to pick up
packing materials and decided to make it
a demo listening time and that we would
do æblindÆ listens. At some point in the
journey, Credo was put on and the car
journey ended up being far longer as we
wanted to do repeat listens. Amongst
excited expressions over just how much
we loved the record, was a mutual
agreement that this was exactly the kind
of music we wanted to put out, and
exactly the kind of music which needed
to be heard by one of the most talented
young producers around today.
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