Stadiums & Shrines

Hidden Away

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Three photographs dissolve into each other. A sky takes deep, prolonged breaths of blue and pink. There isn’t much to this Patient Sounds-produced visual aid. But the uncomplicated execution, one that almost challenges the eye to find something else hidden within the vista, is all that’s needed. Takahiro Yorifuji controls the rest, bending his guitar ever so slightly, engaging both the negative space and the millions of granular pigments that distinguish pink from blue.

Seamless and Here, the first proper international full length LP from Japanese artist Hakobune, is out June 3rd and available for pre-order now.

Continuation Day

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Unmistakably lifelike, this wind. There’s a certain comfort in knowing that it most likely is, real. Field recorded, like much of Tom Gallo‘s debut EP Continuation Day, the wind here sighs in and out, deftly filling gaps between static, piano keys, flowers in bloom… the rusted poles of a dock as the tide cycles.

For now the day is brief, but soon enough (December 13th via Record Collection) it will continue on.

New World

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A visualizer, or rather an “audio/visual wildlife database experience”, “New World” lives up to its name. The 16 minutes access some other space, open to interact with both intensely and passively. Cues are of course taken from this gorgeous, cerebral nod-along by Chase Hudson aka Foothills, which sweeps the entire B side of a cassette of the same name. Melodica, Moog, Rhodes, AM radio, drum machine… these are well-crafted soundscapes, rich and precise, and as of today, available through Patient Sounds.

音は光る (The Sound is Shining)

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“…all environmental sound and non-sound begin to have a meaning to me and the sound begins to shine.”

Above is the music and the words of Michiru Aoyama. Both are in reference to the composer’s regular practice of meditation in Zen Buddhism. Matched with Prelinger-sourced infrared footage, “日本の空気 (Air of Japan)” illuminates those shining subtleties in hyper-awareness. The four minutes works well as a standalone zone-out, but we also recommend letting them open up a nice half-hour of textural ambient and static drone at bandcamp via Hamburg-based label Organic Industries.