Artist : Fourcolor
Title : Letter Of Sounds
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : Oct-24-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : 12k
Source : CDDA
Length : 52:02 min
Size : 67,0 MB
Tracklist:
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01.02 06:34
02.Rowboat (with Piana) 04:57
03.Season 04:04
04.Fountain 04:48
05.Flyaway 06:36
06.Vignette 06:23
07.Leaves 14:20
08.Frame 04:20
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52:02 min
Following the release of his work as part of the
electro-acoustic quartet Minamo on 12k (12k1031, 2005) and the
proto-pop outing under his new moniker Filfla (Plop, 2005),
Fourcolor (Keiichi Sugimoto) is back with his second release on
12k, Letter of Sounds. His previous work, Air Curtain (12k1029)
was a critical success selling out the first pressing in little
over one month.
On Air Curtain, Fourcolor explored new directions, building
upon delicate, implied rhythmic structures moving away from the
strictly drone based material on his debut cd Water Mirror
(Apestaartje, 2004). With Letter of Sounds Sugimoto pushes his
sound even further by bringing the rhythms more to the
foreground and taking influences from his previous, more
pop-based work, as Filfla. The album uses many dominant
rhythmic structures such as on the opener "02" which couples
catchy guitar harmonic hooks with sliced melodic beats or the
beautiful "Rowboat" in which Sugimoto collaborates with
long-time friend Naoko Sasaki/Piana (Happy) using a variety of
instrumentation and vocals. Similarly, a majority of the work
on Letter of Sounds finds itself working around tight,
syncopated micro-rhythms.
Of course Letter of Sounds is not without its delicate
undercurrents and warm, stretched-out, whispy tones that have
become signature to Sugimoto's sound (the gorgeous finale
"Frame"), but his desire for a more up-front and structured
approach continues the evolution from a style he has mastered
into new, more challenging territory, and expands his palette
as an artist.
* packaging note: as Fourcolor's cd Air Curtain (12k1029, 2004)
was the commercial introduction of the revised 12k logo, Letter
of Sounds launches a new, more streamlined digipack design in
celebration of 12k's upcoming 10-year anniversary. In addition
to the changes in layout the new digipacks feature a matte
varnish which allows for richer colors and sharper lines than
the previous digipacks.
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