Label: Music For Dreams
Catalog#: -
Format: Digital, Album
Country: Denmark
Released: 2018
1 Lights Painted For A Road Trip To Spain 5:49
2 Beautiful Western River 2:46
3 Orange Trail 5:06
4 I Love You Today Too 4:09
5 Orbis Sensualium 2:25
6 Lanterns 7:02
7 Breakfast In Yutenji 4:44
8 Twenty Types Of Dusk 5:47
9 Fanfare For Shadows 2:54
東京を拠点に活動するDJ/プロデューサーMax Essa（マックス・エッサ）が、デンマークの名門Music For Dreamsから発表したフルレングスアルバム。リリースから8年経った今も変わらず、折に触れては聴いている作品です。心地よいグルーヴを軸としたニューディスコ路線の前作「Won Ton Sunset」から趣を変え、本作は旅先で出会った静かな時間や風景を映し取るような内省的でパーソナルなリスニング・サウンドへ。後に和製アンビエント/チルアウトの編集盤「Oto No Wa: Selected Sounds of Japan 1988-2018」を共同監修するMax Essaですが、本作にも環境音楽のエッセンスが随所に織り込まれ、とりわけInterior(s)の美学を現代的な視点でアップデートしたような佇まいが感じられます。アートワークはサンセットの光と影を抽象化したイメージでしょうか。ダンスとメディテーション、イージーとディープの穏やかな汀線。本作の延長線上にある「Miró In The Bathroom」とあわせて。
A full-length album by Tokyo-based DJ/producer Max Essa, released on the renowned Danish label Music For Dreams. Even now, eight years after its release, it remains a piece I find myself returning to from time to time.
Shifting away from the comfortable, groove-driven nu-disco approach of his previous work, Won Ton Sunset, this album turns toward an introspective, personal listening sound, reflecting the quiet moments and landscapes encountered on a journey. While Max Essa would later co-curate the Japanese ambient and chill-out compilation Oto No Wa: Selected Sounds of Japan 1988–2018, the essence of environmental music is woven throughout this work, creating a presence that feels like a contemporary update of Interior's aesthetics. The artwork seems to abstract the light and shadow of a sunset. A gentle shoreline between dance and meditation, the easy and the deep. To be enjoyed alongside "Miró In The Bathroom," which lies on the same continuum.
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