Artist : Ryonkt
Title : Sunlight and Water
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 01/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 04
Label : The Land of
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 45:49 min
Size : 63,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Part 01 11:52
02.Part 02 08:40
03.Part 03 08:34
04.Part 04 16:43
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45:49 min
Ryonkt is the work of Sapporo based
artist Ryo Nakata. In the past couple of
years he has become a personal friend,
collaborator, label mate and late night
whisky drinking partner. We only finally
got to meet in September of this year
when I went up to Sapporo (in Hokkaido -
the northern island of Japan) to play a
show organized by Ryo. Ryo was due to
open the gig after a short sound-check,
yet the sound-check merged into the
performance and I was unaware he had
actually started I was so tuned into the
tones Ryo was playing from his Fender
guitar.
As such, people quietly wondered in and
just sat down, bowed their heads and
became encompassed by the music. Such is
the effect of Ryo's work. His music is
unassuming, full of memory and deeply
moving. There is nothing stylistically
complex about it, nothing that makes you
think about technique or technology. He
uses a laptop, guitar and field
recording. He plays a few chords and
notes. That really is it, yet what Ryo
does with one chord is more than most
artists can do across entire albums.
There is space to his work, space left
for the listener to fill in the blanks.
There is melody, oh such beautiful
melody, the like of which too few
artists truly possess.
'Sunlight & Water' starts and ends with
water sounds, but there is a whole lot
of sun and light going on throughout
these four pieces. Mother Earth rarely
had a more beautiful soundtrack. (Ian
Hawgood)
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