a r t i s t : Daisuke Miyatani
t i t l e : Diario
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Hausmusik
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Nov/2006
t r a c k s : 15
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 46,9 MB
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Daisuke Miyatani lives on the Awaji Island in Japan and
usually works in a bookshop. Maybe that is where he finds the
rest and silence to create his fragile compositions. Or it is
his Japanese cultural background that leads to the calm,
haiku-like miniatures.
Daisuke establishes a reduced and minimal approach mostly
based on guitars, accompanied by xylophones and other
instruments. The songs have an open character, with a lot of
silence, and repetition. These elements are contrasted with
more ambient-like, electronically composed material. Hence the
album is a fruitful interplay between constant atmospheres and
point-like acoustic notes. Most of the songs include
fieldrecordings which are rather subtle, underlying. All the
electronic elements still have an annalog character, fitting
with the dominating acoustic instruments.
"Diario" establishes a warm and calm atmosphere and yet
avoiding to be a trivial album. The techniques of minimalism,
repetition, integration of concrete sounds, electro-acoustic
combination are all used in a very discrete way. The result is
an interesting album very comfortable to listen to.
He has released several works on different, mostly Japanese
labels. There are definitely parallels to Yuichiro Fujimoto's
work, who also releases on Ahornfelder.
The CD comes in a matt Digipack with detailed collage-artwork.
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01-view [00:41]
02-edanone [03:26]
03-rain melodies [03:05]
04-old tape [01:53]
05-summer child [03:51]
06-niwa [00:36]
07-yu [01:26]
08-water lights [02:58]
09-michi [01:34]
10-sampo [03:54]
11-hidamari [03:10]
12-hum [05:28]
13-aiveo [01:23]
14-iindayo [02:46]
15-dokusho-chu [03:46]
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39:57 min