Chihei Hatakeyama + Corey Fuller - Euphotic

Artist: Chihei Hatakeyama + Corey Fuller Album: Euphotic Label: White Paddy Mountain Genre: Ambient, Drone As active as Chihe...


Artist: Chihei Hatakeyama + Corey Fuller
Album: Euphotic
Label: White Paddy Mountain
Genre: Ambient, Drone

As active as Chihei Hatakeyama seems these days, his musical partner here, Corey Fuller seems to be the opposite. His debut 'Seas Between' was already released in 2009 and his second solo release will be out later this year. Together with Tomoyoshi Date he has a duo called Illuha, which has four albums so far, all released by 12K. He lives in Tokyo, but was born in the USA, which makes it easier, I guess, to hook up with Chihei Hatakeyama to do recordings. On three of the four lengthy pieces here, Fuller brings pipe organ sounds while Hatakeyama plays a bit of electric guitar, while the fourth piece sees Fuller playing the Korg MS20 and Hatakeyama plays electric guitar and max/msp. In those first three pieces it seems as if their intention is to make time stop altogether. Seemingly there is a drone sound but there is hardly any movement. It's very quiet and it reminded me of the very early works of Jliat; peaceful, drone like, apparently static. But that's on the surface of the piece because when you listen with a lot of attention you can hear the minutiae changes in the colour of the music. You can also decide to sit back and play this at a volume which is not very loud but that effectively fills up your space. Perfect ambient so to speak.

   By contrast 'Disphotic', the fourth piece, is one full of action; well, not perhaps not so much as in very active, but compared to the three previous monochromes, these final eighteen minutes of the release has quite a few moves going on. The changes are arriving at a slightly quicker speed, but this too counts as a piece of beautiful ambient music and is surely not out of place on this release.

   Nothing something that is shockingly different, but this is a damn great release!


Written by Frans de Waard via Vital Weekly

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