Label: Ze-Koo
Catalog#: LACD-0015
Format: CD, Compilation
Country: Japan
Released: 1999
1 Enitokwa - Raw Point 1 6:29
2 Calm - 五月雨 (Samidare) 6:51
3 Bayaka - Rakuen #1 5:06
4 Junichi Suzuki - Sketch For Autumn 2:12
5 Why Sheep? - Even If You Wish Or Not 7:48
6 Enitokwa - Raw Point 2 6:10
7 Woodman - Virginal 8:32
8 Computer Soup - チムール 9:16
9 Buddha Stick Transparent featuring Something In The Air - Aomidori 4:53
10 Tribal Circus - トライバルサービス 6:23
ロスアプソン・山辺圭司氏のディレクションによるレーベル〈是空〉の第1弾タイトル。全9組の音楽家が「雨」を題材に各々の解釈でイマジネーションを拡げ、雨の降る光景や雨にまつわる情感を、エレクトロニックな手つきで詠み上げたチルアウト盤。静かな覚醒へと誘うヒプノティックな冒頭から、山水画を思わせる枯淡ダウンテンポ、ピローショット的な音風景、脳内をびしょ濡れにする民族アブストラクト、ふわふわと夢心地なミニマルループまで。アンビエント一辺倒に終始せず、サイケデリック、エキゾチック、音響、クラブジャズなどが混然となったアプローチで、描かれる雨脚の表情もまたとりどり。不思議と共通しているのは、音楽の辺境における「呼び名なきもの・形なきもの」を雨に投影しながら、瑞々しい生気と徒然とした寂れを同時に表現するような、ニュートラルな「雨の民」的感覚。一度没入するとほかの音楽を聴けなくなる沼のような魅力があり、やはり名作だなと思います。
The first release from the label Ze-Koo, directed by Keiji Yamabe of Los Apson. Across this chill-out album, nine musical acts expand their imaginations through their own interpretations of the theme of "rain," painting scenes of rainfall and its accompanying emotions through an electronic lens. The sonic spectrum spans widely: from a hypnotic opening that invites a quiet awakening, to understated downtempo tracks reminiscent of traditional ink-wash landscape paintings; from pillow-shot-like soundscapes and mind-drenching ethnic abstraction, to airy, dreamlike minimal loops. Rather than adhering strictly to ambient, the album weaves together elements of psychedelia, exotica, onkyo, and club jazz, depicting the ever-shifting expressions of the falling rain. What mysteriously unites these tracks is a neutral, "people of the rain"-like sensibility—one that projects the "nameless and formless" entities found on the margins of music onto the rain itself, simultaneously evoking both a vibrant vitality and a lingering, wistful desolation. It possesses an endlessly absorbing, hypnotic allure that, once you sink into it, leaves you unable to listen to anything else—reaffirming its place as a true masterpiece.
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