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a r t i s t : Tetuzi Akiyama
t i t l e : Pre-Existence
d a t e : 2005
l a b e l : Locust
g e n r e : Instrumental
r l s. d a t e : Dec/2005
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 42,8 MB
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Tetuzi Akiyama is frequently associated with the insurgent
improvising community in Tokyo generated around guitarist Taku
Sugimoto but to be sure his sound owes as much to a unique
strain of country blues engulfed in negative space. His loosely
strewn playing skirts the usual cliches of the guitar in both
the free improv and trad folk scenes. Pre-Existence is a
puzzling and often achingly beautiful slurred guitar
meditation. Sit back & let your ears bear witness to a zen
blues of the most elemental, meditative form. This disc marks
Akiyama's solo contribution to locust's celebrated Wooden
Guitar series.
Also highly recommended is his spare blues rumination, Relator,
on Taku Sugimoto's Slub label and Bject, his trio with Utah
Kawasaki & Masahiko Okura as a part of our Object series.
Press
ôTetuzi plays his instrument in a way that is completely
unindebted to any familiar guitar styles. His guitar can make
the ears feel cross-eyed and bloodshot; it can make the space
in the listener's own throat feel like it's closing up.
Sometimes it feels like seeing clocks melt, or watching a car
crash unfold in slow motion.ö ~Sam Sweet, Stop Smiling
ôOf the many who found themselves unwittingly tagging along
behind the John Fahey revival bandwagon, Akiyama is perhaps the
closest in spirit to Blind Joe Death. Pre-Existence is a
classic example of the less-is-more aesthetic Fahey admired, a
music of great depth and nuance created with the strictest
economy of material and breathtaking attention to detail.ö~All
Music Guide
Tetuzi AkiyamaÆs guitar playing, with its spindly blues-tinged
inflections and stifled silences, is without a doubt one of the
more engaging performance approaches in contemporary
improvisational music. He consistently manages to steer
performances away from oblivious dissonant abstraction, denying
his sessions the baggage of the usual ominous, sterility-tinted
cliches. Akiyama has a sensitive range, able to indulge both in
the moments of abandon and focus the improvisation with his
dark, raspy melodies. ~Dusted
ôNo question, Tetuzi Akiyama is one of Japan's leading avant-
garde musicians. Along with Sugimoto, he's often attributed as
one of the first members of a rag-tag group of musicians in
Japan whose sound is commonly called "onkyo" -- roughly
translating as "reverberating sound" -- a philosophy of
improvisation that holds silence in high esteem. It's an
expression of sound easily aligned with John Cage, but came
about also as a more direct response to the noise music that
dominated the Japanese underground, via Merzbow and Boredoms
and Keiji Haino. After all that squall, something had to give.
Either a musician had to compete for decibels with the ultra-
noise of Japanese culture, or, as Sugimoto and Akiyama decided,
compete for silence.ö ~Pop Matters
(http://www.locustmusic.com)
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01-Atheist [03:54]
02-Reinforcement [04:11]
03-Mystification [03:28]
04-Fireside [04:58]
05-Hollowness [03:36]
06-Mutuality [05:27]
07-Condemnation [04:02]
08-Yearnings [03:43]
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33:19 min