Mirage, by Chihei Hatakeyama

Mirage

by Chihei Hatakeyama

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GMagi Etheric and swirly, it floats into your awareness like a extra-dimensional thought or form, arising specifically from someone else, unto its own and contained. Favorite track: Anatolia Mirage.

Severac Immersed in nostalgia for a time that no longer exists

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1.	Sad Ocean 03:48	buy track
2.	Starlight And Black Echo 06:55	buy track
3.	Bus Terminal In Konya 04:51	buy track
4.	Voices On The Corner 04:15	buy track
5.	Distant Steam Train Whistle 03:50	buy track
6.	Anatolia Mirage 04:42	buy track
7.	Phantom Cats In Cathedral 03:48	buy track
8.	A Silence Of Day 03:14	buy track
9.	In The Quiet River 04:09	buy track

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“Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The relation of sound and architecture has been a recurring theme across the centuries. The earliest examples of sound design stem from the interaction of human voice and various architectural spaces used for worship and ritual. It is these sonic reflections on ritual that are at the root of the latest edition from Japanese ambient maestro Chihei Hatakeyama.

Recorded over the period of five years, Mirage is a meditation on the phenomenology of music and architecture. During a field trip to Turkey, Hatakeyama became acutely aware of how architecture shapes sound and through doing so effects the very nature of music’s resonance. This condition extends beyond the personal into the collective, creating a certain condition of aurality that operates at a societal level.

Walking through the labyrinthian bazaars of Turkey, Hatakeyama took inspiration from the way sounds emerged and decayed within those spaces. Looking to replicate these experiences in the creation of the album, he developed a series of new processes and transformations that expanded his approach to textural music. Weaving in location recordings from these spaces, the record began to take on a hazy abstruse quality; the unfamiliar familiar.

As the name suggests, Mirage is about the apparent phenomena that exists only in our perception. Like a strong memory, which can feel so very present yet remain intangible, Hatakeyama’s music on Mirage maintains a lucid but utterly transcendent quality.

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released June 9, 2017

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