Unhappy American Lost In Tokyo (4tracks only:Digital)
by shotahirama
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Digital Album
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No where to go (Digital)
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Shinjuku (Digital)
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[Original CDR info]
Tokyo based sound artist, shotahirama’s classic album “Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo” was released out in May 2010 from Re-Records Hong Kong. Inspired by the idea of a person with dual nationality and multiple citizenship. It is an attempt to explore the themes of their loneliness, alienation, insomnia, existential ennui, and culture shock against the backdrop of a modern Japanese cityscape. Sounds move across a broad range of spheres from electronic based composition, through to evocative field recordings that seek to reveal those sound spaces largely ignored or inaudible. Capturing sounds as delicate as sand grains in motion, shota uses laptop computers to makes multilayered compositions that blend synthesized melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise. shota also used field-recording materials (taken by shota himself) to create concrete noise for dynamic sounds of drone.
Tokyo based sound artist, shotahirama’s classic album “Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo” was released out in May 2010 from Re-Records Hong Kong. Inspired by the idea of a person with dual nationality and multiple citizenship. It is an attempt to explore the themes of their loneliness, alienation, insomnia, existential ennui, and culture shock against the backdrop of a modern Japanese cityscape. Sounds move across a broad range of spheres from electronic based composition, through to evocative field recordings that seek to reveal those sound spaces largely ignored or inaudible. Capturing sounds as delicate as sand grains in motion, shota uses laptop computers to makes multilayered compositions that blend synthesized melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise. shota also used field-recording materials (taken by shota himself) to create concrete noise for dynamic sounds of drone.
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released 04 May 2010
release date: 4th May 2010
label: Re-Records (Hongkong)
price: 1,575 Yen (Tax Inc.)
cat number: RE-CD-005R
format: CDR
cover design: Re-Records
track list (Original):
01. Dark Night Of The Soul (5:24)
02. No Where To Go (8:10)
03. I Come With The Rain (9:41)
04. Shinjuku (10:58)
05. What Was Out There Disappeared (6:00)
release date: 4th May 2010
label: Re-Records (Hongkong)
price: 1,575 Yen (Tax Inc.)
cat number: RE-CD-005R
format: CDR
cover design: Re-Records
track list (Original):
01. Dark Night Of The Soul (5:24)
02. No Where To Go (8:10)
03. I Come With The Rain (9:41)
04. Shinjuku (10:58)
05. What Was Out There Disappeared (6:00)
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shotahirama is a Sound Artist/novelist from New York, US and currently live in Tokyo, Japan. His musical focus is ... more characterized by digital synth and field recording with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; grainy textures, complex patterns of smooth drones, and microscopic clicks and cuts. less
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Sep 2009
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