Artist : Opitope
Album : Physis
Year : 2014
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 246kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 44m
Size : 82.29mb
Label : Spekk
Catalognr : KK026
Tracklist:
01. An White Drop Of Morning Dew 10:47
02. Light Blue Mist And Ripple 13:13
03. Warmth Of Winter Woods 12:27
04. The Dawn Of Memories 8:00
Releasenotes:
First up in the next new series of SPEKK is an album by Tokyo duo Opitope.
Opitope is a duo by ambient master Chihei Hatakeyama and Tomoyoshi Date (from
Illuha) and their 1st album Hau is still one of the best sellers in the SPEKK
catalog. Physis is their 2nd album following their session recording album A
Colony of Kuala Mute Geeks which was taken with their fellow musicians, and 7
years after the glorious Hau album. Physis was entitled with the meaning of
invisible generating power within the nature, and they have created 4 long
stories (the concept of Opitope compositions are to produce tracks with
imaginative stories) with poetic names. Comparing to the Hau songs, you can
easily find development in their production skills including recording, editing
and mixing. And most remarkable is their songwriting. If you hear these 4 pieces
on a headphone, not only you will be astonished by the detailed sounds, but they
will also give you different impressions each time .. and the rest is up to you
to perceive and construct your own story. Lastly, this album was mainly produced
after that terrible earthquake in Northeast Japan (2011), and whereas the story
of Hau was a journal of travelling from the south to north, Physis is a story of
the destructed earth with just ruins and no signs of human beings, but gradually
recovering from itÆs soil into the usual green paradise. Simply breathtaking.
http://www.spekk.net/artists/opitope.html