Concert in Patagonia!

¡Amigos, buen día! Maravillosa noticia: El 22 de abril estaré tocando en el refugio Agostino Rocca, en el Cerro Tronador, Bariloche, invitado por El Monte Lab, el refugio. 5 horas de subida, a través de la cuesta de la montaña y bellos bosques patagónicos. Este recital forma parte de un proyecto mayor del cual les contaré más adelante. ¡Muchas gracias Victoria Sayago y Bruno Stecconi!

Friends, good afternoon! Wonderful news: On April 22th. I will be playing in the shelter Agostino Rocca, in Cerro Tronador, Bariloche, invited by El Monte Lab & the refuge crew. 5 hours uphill, through the slope of the mountain and beautiful Patagonian forests. This recital is part of a larger project which I will tell you about later. Thank you very much!

New album! ~ Chihei Hatakeyama + Federico Durand

A very special album.

Inspired by a small statue of Buddha in the hatakeyama's house neighboring temple, “Magical Imaginary Child“ is the first collaborative recording between Hatakeyama and Durand. Sourced from only an electric guitar (Chihei Hatakeyama) and cassette tape (Federico Durand).this album recorded on March 2014 in hatakeyama's house during Federico Durand Japan tour.These four works are true meditations and poetic sounds. 

Chihei HatakeyamaとFederico Durandの初のコラボレーションアルバムが遂に完成。Federico Durandの演奏するカセゥトテープと、Chihei Hatakeyamaのエレクトリックギターのみで作曲された本作は彼ら自身が語るように、詩的で、情景的な音像を描く。淡い水彩の単色画のような音色は儚さの中に強さを抱くような、まさに『秘すれば花』とで言えそうな哲学的な深さを感じさせる。録音当日の朝、二人は畠山の家の近くの古いお寺を散歩していた、そこで出会った『幻覚童子』という仏像からインスピレーションを受けた本作はMagical Imaginary Childと名付けられ、これから生まれてくる子供達に捧げられた作品となった。

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Chihei Hatakeyama

Chihei Hatakeyama is A Sound Artist And Musician Living On The Outskirts Of Tokyo. He Has Performed For Years Under His Given Name And Also As One Half Of The Electroacoustic Duo Opitope, Along With Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama Polychromes Memory-Evoking Soundscapes With Various Recorded Materials Of Electric, Acoustic Instruments Such As Electric Guitars, Vibraphone, And Piano. His Releases Is On Kranky, Room 40, Under The Spire, Hibernate Records, Magic Book Records, Home Nomal, OwnRecords And Spekk (As Opitope)..

www.chihei.org


Federico Durand

Federico is a sound artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since his highly acclaimed 1st album on SPEKK (2010), he has been constantly delivering new materials from Home Normal, Own Records and Desire Path label, most of them sold out quickly. He also released album as Melodia (collaboration with Tomoyoshi Date from Optiope) and Every Hidden Color (collaboration with Nicholas Szczepanik). He uses a lot of fieled recordings which he took in his daily life mixing with guitar, cassette, and the overall impression is always warm and organic just as his personality.

credits

released 29 July 2015

all musics written by Chihei Hatakeyama + Federico Durand
mixed and mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama

photograph by Chihei Hatakeyama

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Muchas gracias Chihei & White Paddy Mountain por editar este álbum tan especial, F.

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La tarde

Music comes from the other side of the mirror

A list of my favorite music, books and things for FLAU label (Japan)

FLAU

Favourites 2013

-Albums

Andrew Chalk & Tom James Scott – Wild Flowers (LP, Skire) White Poppy – Drifter Golds (Tape, Constellation Tatsu) Brandon Hurtado – Hotel (Tape, Carpi Records) Ki Choquette – Landscape Suicide (Tape, Carpi Records) ILLUHA – Interstices (CD, 12k) Vikki Jackman, Andrew Chalk & Jean Noël Rebilly – A Paper -Doll’s Whisper Of Spring (LP, Faraway Press) RION - ホタル (CD, Hibernate) Mary Lattimore – The Withdrawing Room (LP, Desire Path Recordings) Opitope - A Colony Of Kuala Mute Geeks (CD, White Paddy Mountain)

-Books

Nicolas D. Bedini – “Sueño con lavadoras y otros poemas” (Bajo La Luna, 2013) Natsume Sōseki – “Sueño de la libélula” (Satori, 2013) Martin Heidegger – “Observaciones relativas al arte –la plástica -el espacio. El arte y el espacio” (Cuadernos de la cátedra Jorge Oteiza, 2003) Miyazawa Kenji – “El tren nocturno de la Vía Láctea” (Satori, 2012) Graham Reynolds – “Thomas Bewick –A resume of his life and work” (Art and Technics, 1949)

-Tea

El Gato Negro (Green tea, orange and ginger).

-A place

The beautiful gardens and houses in Rawson neighborhood, Buenos Aires.

-A name (for a cat)

Pijomei

-Instruments

Mattel tinkle-tonk (1953) Neunaber Wet Stereo Reverb Sony TC-D5M Tape-Recorder (Japan) Microbrute mono-synth Old crystal cups Bells

-A wonderful thing

Mixing Melodía's 2nd. album with my friend Tomoyoshi Date.

-A beautiful object

A kaleidoscope with frogs

Música, ese mundo delicado

Buenos Aires, viaje en tren

La Serranita - Field-recordings

Fuqugi

Nao Sugimoto sent me last week Fuqugi's relese from Plop label (Japan). It is a tender album of ambient guitars and sweet melodies. I am listening to it every day. Now, I am happy because I am collaborating with Fuqugi in a new track.

Please enjoy Fuqugi's world...

www.myspace.com/fuqugisounds