Artist : Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang / Toshimaru Nakamura
Title : ATAK008
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : 11/10/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Atak
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 69:31 min
Size : 101,2 MB
Tracklist:
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ATAK008
01.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 3:42
02.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 3:57
03.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 3:49
04.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 2:39
05.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 6:20
06.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 7:32
07.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 1:17
08.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 10:30
09.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 4:04
10.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 5:30
11.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 5:52
12.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 3:29
13.Keiichiro Shibuya / Norbert Moslang /
Toshimaru Nakamura - 10:00
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69:31 min
A very strong collaboration by three leading artists in the forefront of digital, noise and improvisation world
music scene. In addition to 7 collaboration tracks, this disc premieres 6 pieces of the individual artists.
Stability or instability, digital but analog, human body and computer as a player. Here is a new form of the
complex and the kinetic sound.
The exceptional trio of Keiichiro Shibuya(computer, keyboard), Toshimaru Nakamura(No-input mixing
board, electric guiter, etc), Norbert Moslang(electronics), now the new album is released. This disc is of
the session during their tour to Japan, Swiss sound artists joined session, ATAK NIGHT 2, in Tokyo this
March and later intensively elaborated in postproduction. This disc is to be called a true collaboration.
Moslang uses his original infrared equipments to create an unexplored, high-detailed sound. Besides,
Nakamura has been always flying around the top of the improvisation world and Shibuya is a founder of
ATAK, the most strategic and conceptual sound art label. There is no easy sound. Imagine how high-
dense sound the three virtuosos produce together. The folds of microscopic sound and the sonorite
continues to crash and polish at the same time.
It is not an additive performance or improvisation, however. It is the change and the challenge by the music
alchemy
This disc also includes two solo pieces by each performer. Having the aesthetic of modulation and
extinction, the new tracks of Toshimaru Nakamura provides us an wonderful time. The tracks of Keiichiro
Shibuya derive from ?the third term music theory,? his recent collaboration study with Takashi Ikegami, a
complexity science scholar. However, Shibuya seems to avoid translation of the theory into music, but
generates only the superb sounds as a result of the alchemic process. As if a moment differentiated, it's
brilliant this time is invisible.
Kazunao Abe / art director of Yamaguchi Communication Art Museum (YCAM)
This release on Atak is recorded during the Swiss invasion of Japan. It must have been a busy time for the
Swiss people with all these playing and improvising. This disc is a bit complicated: it contains seven tracks
by all three, and then two by each solo, probably some rework of the original concert recordings - but
perhaps not. In the trio-improvisations the computer, keyboard (Shibuya), cracked everyday electronics
(Mo¨slang) and guitar, mixing board and headphones (Nakamura) bounce together in a pretty violent
fashion. Not really noise in the strictest sense of the word, but in a more crude manner than is usual in the
world of improvisation (at least this world), but all three keep their ears open for what the others are doing
and the clashes work well. Interesting enough all three like their solo work to focus on rhythmic particles.
Nakamura splices them through the use of a no-input mixer, Mo¨slang by creating loops out his own
cracked everyday electronics and Shibuya makes them really short, ultra fast and ultra stereo to create a
fine woven pattern of sound. I like the fact that these solo excursions are included, so we can our own
math's and see who did what. Great release. Quite powerful. Frans de Waard
release date :13 Sep 2006