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Thursday, October 22, 2009 
Since his early steps into minimal immaculate & galvanizing ambient, Hiroki Sasajima proved that he had a keen ear for refined sonic details and optimal placement of sound... Along his own explorations and fast self-maturation, he has quickly grown into a skillful dissector, interested in the inner buried properties of sound, its nervures...
Auscultating his environment, listening to its own breath reverberated differently according to the surfaces & materials, he restores sublimated re-read fragments ofreality...
Highly perceptual & organic, his pieces seem to be based perhaps upon in situ manipulation of objects, slight frictions, small bruisings heard through contact mics, to which he juxtaposes an evolving muffled sound motif as spine...

"monogenic" is another fine example of his approach where magnification & introspection combine to become the compost of a deep sensory experience, delivering a sort of intimate story speaking to our Subconscious...
Hiroki captures the invisible distillations, the tremblings, & underlying tones of the locations he visits, gradually filling up a fascinating audio-diary in an entomological way... "monogenic" is a focused closeup breaking the codes of our immediate surroundings...

SRA

Many thanks for the great review Daniel.
Mystery Sea
Unfathomless



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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 
Hiroki Sasajima - renz
(Q-Tone qt04)
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A few months back I was the fortunate recipient of two rather fabulous albums (by Homework and by Terje Paulsen) from new label Q-Tone.  Now they've followed these with a further pair of releases by Sascha Muhr and this one from Sasajima. 
Characterised by soft tones and organic field recordings Sasajima has assembled a set of gently immersive soundworlds unified by a deep sense of textural isolationism.   Whilst there is a definite unity between the tracks Sasajima has imbued each with enough individuality to retain both a sense of cohesion and one of progression. 
There is a slight insubstantiality to Renz which did bug me a little.  It has a tendency to fade a little too far into the background and as such you do tend to lose chunks of the music when your attention gets diverted elsewhere but on the whole it's a solidly constructed foray into experimental ambience.

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Friday, October 16, 2009 
CIRCLES AROUND THE WORLD various artists compilation

 


Tracklist:
01. the love songs - londra
02. offthesky - silt water tear
03. the cherry blues project - the time is dead (remix)
04. brunk - radiostoring
05. philip sulidae - cloud music
06. tsone - spray
07. ennio mazzon - silea
08. marcus kuerten - torcedora
09. sunmoon - 44.425934, 26.092529 Terra
10. edu comelles - el estado de las ovejas
11. hiroki sasajima - roukoku
12. sean cooper-..marquardt - returning safely to the earth
13. segue - hermit
14. nigul - finit però il.limitat
15. heezen - périphériques
 
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 
Renz appeared on a Spanish national radio program.

Sismógrafo
Presented by Jordi Giraldez
Sismógrafo is a program dedicated to electronic music unconventional.
A space to discover what is being done at present within the experimental electronic music scene both at home and abroad.

Thanks to Jordi.
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Monday, October 12, 2009 
When listening to this new work by Sasajima, i was able to hear beauty within a matter of seconds.
‘Quadro’ is a seamless fabric of vibration that creates a mood of wonder and also at the same moment serenity.

when i downloaded this work, i put it on repeat and listened throughout the night. It was most definitely a surreal experience in that i was transcended to a new yet familiar place of wonder and nothingness. 
Quadro is one of those pieces that you can just put on repeat have a cup of tea and listen without judgment.

These four tracks are not only interesting in its harmonic anomaly-like character but is accompanied by incredibly wonderful field recordings of very fine fidelity that create a space that is familiar yet mysterious.

When i first heard of Sasajima’s work i was most definitely floored by this artist’s genius and pure innate vision of sound.
Please check out this artist and download this great work at www.mandorla.com.mx


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chance is the improvisation of nature
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Saturday, October 10, 2009 
Quadro
Release from MANDORLA
 

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Thanks to Manrico Montero.
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Thursday, October 08, 2009 
Hiroki Sasajima: Focusing on fine Sounds | tokafi.com




Thanks to Tobias and Nicholas Szczepanik.



For Japanese.
ドイツの実験音楽ウェブマガジンtokafiのインタビューです。

MonogenicがSRA Recordsからもうすぐリリースされます。
前作のRenzと比べてどのような方法でアルバムはあなたのための前進を意味しますか？

Renzでは断片的なサウンドソースや荒削りな加工方法で、より不完全で荒廃的なコンセプトで制作しました。
それに対してMonogenicは繊細なマイクロサウンドスケープ作品です。
現在私はこのような通常気にすることのないような細かいサウンドにフォーカスした制作にとても興味があります。
そういった意味ではMonogenicは今後の私の方向性を表しているアルバムだと考えます。

前作と同様にフィールドレコーディングは音楽的、またコンセプトにおいても重要です。
それらの発端や録音された場所に特別な意味はありますか？

はい。
フィールドレコーディングの大半は都心から離れた場所や田舎町の自然が多くある場所で収集します。
そこにあるサウンドは無限で、季節や時間によってあらゆる表情を見せます。
作品のアイデアもそこでレコーディングすることによって生まれることが多いです。
今回も同様でフィールドレコーディングがアルバムの制作のきっかけになっています。

私は、あなたの現在の作品が2種類の異なるトラックを持っているようであると気がつきました、フィールドレコーディングによる深いサウンドスケープと瞑想的な静けさの純粋なドローン部分。あなたは、この二つの面のアプローチの中心に特定の個人の関心かプロセスを見ることができますか？

私は２つのパートは対照的であると考えています。
しかしそれらが同調することによって新しい空間ができて深みが増します。
ドローン部分があることによってフィールドレコーディングの輪郭がより際立つし、
フィールドレコーディング部分があることによってドローンがより瞑想的に感じられるように、曲を構成するときはお互いのバランスを大切にします。
そして私にとってそれらの関係性はとても興味深いことでもあります。

あなたはどのようにドローンを作りますか？
メインのサウンドソースは何ですか？

ドローンに関してはサウンドソースに特にこだわりありません。
ノイズや楽器の音などを何度も加工して作ることが多いです。

あなたの作品には、非常に自然な流れがあります。
それらは一種の生の環境録音によるものですか、それとも長く激しいプロッセッシングによる産物ですか？

前の質問でドローン部分とフィールドレコーディング部分が対照的であると言ったように、２つのパートはそれぞれ違う方法で加工します。
ドローンは気に入ったサウンドができるまで何度もプロセッシングすることが多いです。
逆にフィールドレコーディングに関しては有機的な素材そのものの質感を残すために過剰なプロセッシングはできるだけしないようにしています。
自然な流れはそこから来るものだと思います。

あなたは、Monogenicを個々のトラックのコレクションとして、または、異なった物語とテンションを持っていると考えますか？

私自身は各トラックをそれぞれ個別なものとは考えていませんが、そこに僅かな違いや異なった物語を発見できればそれもまたいいことだと思います。
Monogenicはリスナーによってさまざまな受け取り方ができるアルバムだと思います、そこには答えや受け取り方を制限してしまうような要素はありません。
私はサウンドの持っている可能性は未知数だと考えます。

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Wednesday, October 07, 2009 
HIROKI SASAJIMA - MONOGENIC (CDR by Sentient Recognition Archive)
ENTIA NON - DISINTER (CDR by Sentient Recognition Archive)
Two new names for me, on the excellent Sentient Recognition Archive label. While Entia Non has a little bit of information, there is no such thing on 'Monogenic' by Hiroki Sasajima. That's a pity, since we have to guess a bit. My best shot is that Sasajima uses field recordings, which are heavily processed into monolithic blocks of sound. His results, three in total, a deeply, what: bass shaking, rumbles of sound. Like the Holloway disc reviewed elsewhere, there is a strong influence of the work of Paul Bradley or Jonathan Coleclough. Deep, dark and mysterious and somehow all generated in the world of digital processing. Rain seems to be the main player in the second piece and motorized sounds in the third, whereas in the first I am completely in the dark. Very fine release for the music, not so much in terms of new things happening.
To spoil the end of the review: it can also be said about Entia Non, also known as James McDougall. Not much information here either, but it says that the field recordings were made at the East Coast of Australia. Here too the field recordings are heavily processed to filter out the deepest, lowest sound, and emphasize those through heavy filtering. The difference with Sasajima however is that its possible to recognize the or;.iginal sounds somewhat. Lots of sea sounds, walking along the beach, the sand in hand approach, motors and boats. Maybe a track too long this one. The best pieces, with the most variety in them - the raw sound versus the treatments - are at the beginning of the disc. 'Nearly Home', the fifth piece, seems a mere repetition of moves that were already made. Again leaning heavily on the UK drone scene - Mirror, Monos, Ora, Coleclough - but executed with the same great care, so perhaps that's fine enough. Two fine discs. (FdW)
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 
"Monogenic" out now on SRA.


Some of the most meditative drones I’ve heard in a long time. 
Reminds me of the same mood that Andrew Chalk conjures on East of the Sun. 
This release comes highly recommended and will be a great backdrop for your autumn evenings...
Pro CD-R release limited to 100 copies.
Order to SRA.

 

Three new SRA releases now available for (pre)order!
Autumn with Celer, Entia Non, and Hiroki Sasajima.

Many thanks to Nicholas Szczepanik.

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Wednesday, August 26, 2009 
RENZ – Hiroki Sasajima (Q-tone)
 
"Renz" is the sound of nature. "Renz" is the sound of technology.
The apparent contradiction of the previous statements can be solved by the 4 tracks by Hiroki Sasajima: layered sounds mix scattered rhythms, gentle noises and soft melodies that form an organic, truly immersive listening experience.
It's hard to say which are the pure sounds of the environment and what are the "manipulations", the entire disc is permeated by a constant reverb that transforms the tracks into a muffled landscape from which perceive the many precious hidden details that little by little are revealed.
No matter whether this comes from the buzz of a power plant or from the slow flow of a river.
"Renz" is THE sound. "Renz" teaches how to listen.
 
[Ennio Mazzon]

Thanks to Ennio.
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http://ripplesrecordings.webs.com/store.htm
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