Label: K-MUSICLIFE
Catalog#: -
Format: Digital, Album
Country: Japan
Released: 2017
1 blu-er 7:47
2 On the Beach 7:04
3 Silent Serenity 9:06
4 Water Between Us 7:40
5 Nature Sound (River flow) 7:00
6 Infinity Moment 6:30
7 River Night 9:16
8 Silent Rain 18:01
石川県金沢市の郷土研究家であり、Web開発・映像制作・歴史研究を融合させた地域ブランディングを手がける小西裕太（Yuta Konishi）。自ら制作したバイノーラルマイクによる自然音の配信など、長年サウンドアーティストとしても活動する彼が、自主レーベルK-MUSICLIFEから発表した3rdアルバム。柔らかなエレクトロニクスとフィールドレコーディングを主体に、川の流れや雨音、水辺の静けさといった「水の時間」の移ろいを描く瑞々しいサウンドスケープ。吉村弘「Wet Land」を彷彿とさせる穏やかなタッチの「Water Between Us」「Infinity Moment」「Silent Rain」、エスニックな趣が空想の旅へと誘う「Silent Serenity」など。環境音楽やニューエイジが再検証される前にあったピュアな感性と、2000年代チルアウトのエッセンスが程よくブレンドされていて、聴いていると3.11以前の風景や肌感覚がふと蘇るような懐かしさを覚えます。「Oto No Wa: Selected Sounds of Japan 1988-2018」の系譜にも連なる、水をめぐるネイチャー・アンビエントの好作です。
Based in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, Yuta Konishi explores local history and engages in regional branding that blends web development, video production, and historical research. Having long been active as a sound artist—distribution of nature sounds captured with self-built binaural microphones being one such initiative—this is his third album, released through his independent label K-MUSICLIFE.
Centered on soft electronics and field recordings, the album traces the subtle shifts of “water time”—the flow of rivers, the sound of rain, and the quietness of waterside environments—through a fresh and delicate soundscape. “Water Between Us,” “Infinity Moment,” and “Silent Rain” have a gentle quality reminiscent of Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Wet Land, while the ethnic touches of “Silent Serenity” evoke a sense of an imaginary journey.
There is a pleasing blend here of a pure sensibility from before ambient and New Age music began to be revisited, and elements of 2000s chill-out. Listening to this album, I find myself quietly recalling the landscapes and sensations of the pre-3/11 era. Another work in the lineage of Oto No Wa: Selected Sounds of Japan 1988–2018, it is a fine nature ambient work centered on water.
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