KAYO MAKINO TORI KUDO / Ein Traum Fur Dich (LP盤)
Ein Traum Für Dich by Kayo Makino & Tori Kudo 2018年、石橋英子さんのレコ発の不在DJとして作ったMIX CDRからサティのピアノと、2019年1月に閉店してしまったSuperDeluxeの為のlast super fluxという作品がOren AmbarchさんのレーベルBLACK TRUFFLE RECORDSよりアナログでリリースされました。 両サイド工藤冬里さんのピアノをREMIXさせていただきました。マスタリングはジムオルークさん、ジャケットは阿部周平さん、内ラベルのドローイングは工藤冬里さんです。 (KAYO MAKINO) Black Truffle announce the release of this genuine head-scratcher, the first collaboration between DJ/mixtape-compiler Kayo Makino and underground legend Tori Kudo. Originally created to be played between acts at the launch of Eiko Ishibashi's acclaimed The Dreams My Bones Dream (2018) and then reworked and refined for LP release, the two side-long pieces are sonic environments constructed by Makino for Kudo's piano to inhabit, or, as the LP's credits suggest, a "cinema pour l'oreille" in which Kudo's piano plays the starring role. Beginning with a soothing field recording of crickets dramatically punctuated by smashing glass, the first side finds Kudo playing his way repeatedly through one of Satie's 1897 Pieces froides. Best known to many listeners for his role as leader of the ecstatically shambolic rock unit Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Kudo's performance of Satie's whimsical yet haunting melody is alternately halting and fluid, delighting in the hesitations of unstudied technique and the subtle variations between repeated attempts. While the combination of Kudo's piano and the background of crickets initially suggests a documentary approach to recording - as if the you are simply hearing incidental sounds creeping through an open window - things take an unexpected turn a few minutes in when Kudo's piano is suddenly doubled. Layering two separate attempts at the same piece of top of each other, Makino's unorthodox mixing blurs Satie's original into a fog of stumbling echoes that becomes increasingly dreamlike as the chirping crickets are overtaken by pattering rain, German dialogue and traffic sounds. The second side begins in a similarly inscrutable vein, with snatches of birds and film music providing a gentle backdrop for Kudo's improvisational variations on a chord progression that, as his performance builds over its twenty-minute duration, somehow begins to suggest the sadly swaggering grandeur of Mick Taylor-era Rolling Stones. Makino accompanies and eventually overwhelms Kudo's piano with a bizarre layer of digitally processed voice and drums, stretched out into a disorienting haze before suddenly retreating to leave Kudo's piano accompanied only by a barking dog. Seemingly unrelated to anything else being produced in the world of contemporary music, this is a striking collaboration between two unique musical personalities that bridges the mundane and the surreal, opening up a dream-space both haunted and hospitable. (BLACK TRUFFLE RECORDS) Side A PIANOISE "SATIE: PIECES FROIDES, MOVEMENT 2: DANSES DE TRAVERS - NO. 1 EN Y REGARDANT A DEUX FOIS" Side B PIANOISE "2018.12.1 OR LAST SUPER FLUX" Cover image by Shuhei Abe Label image by Tori Kudo Cover design by Lasse Marhaug Mastered by Jim O'Rourke at Steamroom, Japan Vinyl cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates & Mastering, Berlin Format:LP Label:BLACK TRUFFLE (AUS)