Moonlight Reflecting Over Mountains, by Chihei Hatakeyama

Moonlight Reflecting Over Mountains

by Chihei Hatakeyama

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polinos Evocative zen ambient by incredibly prolific composer; this is one of his best, relaxing and meditative but by no means banal sonic miniatures coloured by the sure hand of a master.

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1.	Prince Of The Sea 07:39	buy track
2.	A Narrow Path Of The Sacred Forest 04:25	buy track
3.	Broken Mirror 05:24	buy track
4.	Mausoleum 03:57	buy track
5.	A Bronze Pike 02:26	buy track
6.	Journey To The Imaginary Paradise 05:03	buy track
7.	Phantom Voice 05:04	buy track
8.	End Of The Night 05:32	buy track

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On Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains, Tokyo’s Chihei Hatakeyama evokes an instrumental poetic grace, that marks him out as one of the icons of his generation.

Drawing broadly from aesthetic references, that traverse music of the past 30 years, he seamlessly melts glacial ambient drifts with richly harmonic guitar strata that echo the gliding motions of My Bloody Valentine, Ride and Cocteau Twins. Never resolving to clear melody, his interest in unrestrained harmonics creates a depth to his compositions and moreover a profound sense of the personal.

Like Saunter and Mirror, his other editions for Room40, Hatakeyama’s recurrent interest in place is revealed in pieces such as A Bronze Pike. Strummed acoustic guitars are cloaked in a soundscape that suggests a dwelling in the urban; sirens and voices clearly emerging as the piece meanders.

Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains is perhaps Hatakeyama’s most complete work to do. It reconciles his interested in harmony, texture and space. It etches out a map into familiar, yet unexpected territories. These are very much his own lands, but they are lands in which we, as listeners, are welcome to roam.

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selected press:

* AdHoc: “...majestic and amorphous oceans of guitar”
* Merchants of Air: "Deep beneath these soundscapes, fragments of songwriting and intimate structures come shining through.”
* The Formant: There’s definite sense of floating, but whereas some listeners might be encouraged to recall the ocean, it is an ocean in a parallel universe where time just moves almost unnoticeably slower.

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released May 1, 2015

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