Artist : Yuji Takahashi
Title : ATAK006
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2005
Date : 11/10/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 09
Label : Atak
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 62:17 min
Size : 78,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Gs-Portrait 04:21
02.Dctnzlgr 04:42
03.Dsvgrt 05:29
04.Wktnwb 02:42
05.Hptn 05:37
06.Krzlgch 05:46
07.Kumo-Rinzetsu 260795 10:14
08.Und Flieder In Die Sonne 15:37
09.Time 07:49
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62:17 min
12 years after his Kageri, Takahashi's new full-length album is gorgeous, comprehensive, contentious and
innovative. It includes his masterpieces from the past: TIME (1963), a rare musique concrete (electro
music edited on tape), which was scored for animation by Hiroshi Manabe, Fleider in Die Sonne (1989),
computer-generated music over Takahashi's reading of text by Kafka, kumo-rinzetsu 260795 (1995), and
live music performed in 2000 (gs-porttait is highly recommended).
comments:
16 years ago when I was a high school student, I listened to Fleider in Die Sonne (1989) at a concert hall in
Yuraku-cho. I remember Yuji's performance so well. A lot of questions came up within my mind, "Is that
music?" "Text?" "Or neither?" "What is it then?" and ended up with a tremendous impression, "Who is he,
what is Yuji Takahashi?"
Yuji's computer-based works are remarkably fine in recent years. I was telling my friends that someone
should release the CD, and tried to introduce some labels in Europe. And, this year when I listened to gs-
portrait (2005), I decided to release the CD from my own label, ATAK.
There was a circle of time. I was happy to find a link in between his old and new works. As we discussed
about the contents of the album, we arranged to include his maiden-work TIME (1963) because it should
be a surprise that Yuji was making the same music 42 years ago.
I am pleased to release this CD from my label and believe that this is one of his best albums. It will sound
fresh even after 42 years.
- Keiichiro Shibuya, ATAK