Artist : Asuna & Opitope
Title : Sunroom
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 07/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 09
Label : Students Of Decay
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 44:47 min
Size : 57,2 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Photon 04:06
02.The Water Molecule 09:15
03.In The Small Train 05:11
04.Mirage Of A Liquid 04:08
05.Town And Country 03:51
06.Twilight 04:36
07.Crickets, Moth And Frogs 04:01
08.Cloud Shadow In The Night 06:46
09.Column Of Air 02:53
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44:47 min
This is the first collaborative full-
length release by JapanÆs Opitope, the
duo of Chihei Hatakeyama (Kranky,
Room40) and Tomoyoshi Date (FlyRec),
and Asuna (spekk, Headz). Listeners
familiar with OpitopeÆs majestic 2007
release ôHau,ö or any of the more recent
output by Asuna, Hatakeyama or Date,
will find much to love here. Across the
albumsÆ nine tracks, gossamer webs of
treated sound (made from all manner of
plaintive piano, rubbed strings,
delicately picked guitars and evocative
accordian, vibraphone and sampling)
hover, resonate, ebb and disperse.
Paradoxical as it may seem, there is a
painstaking effortlessness to this
music. In some ways, ôSunroomö feels
like a perfect followup to ôHau,ö with
one critical distinction. Where that
previous release, as with AsunaÆs
wonderful ôTHISö double disc and much
of HatakeyamaÆs recent solo work,
focused principally on textures and
abstraction, here an added emphasis is
placed on songcraft. Ultimately, we
might best situate these recordings
alongside DateÆs 2008 masterpiece
ôHuman Being,ö as there is, to be sure,
a similar playfulness, deftness of
juxtaposition, accessibility, and
sincere reverence to be found in the
radiant compositions of ôSunroom.ö
Throughout the albumÆs duration, the
masterful, capable hands of Date,
Hatakeyama and Asuna, craft miniature,
effervescent gems of songs which swell
and bloom like the changing of seasons
or the passage of time in memory.
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