A collaboration between Japanese sound artist Akhira Sano, who's released on Important and Trilogy Tapes, and French photographer David Nissen, 'Shadow's Praise' is a creative dialog that can be interfaced with in multiple ways.
A painter as well as an electro-acoustic artist, Sano understands the relationship between visual art and sound. His past run of releases have already illustrated his painterly control of dynamics and time-fluxing organic composition, and this ambitious collaboration with Nissen might be his deepest statement yet. It's intended to exist in two forms, as a book that Nissen describes as "an atmospheric journey through fog, rain and fading lights" and as a Sano's full-length album, and the release can be enjoyed independently, or listened to while leafing through the book.
Since we haven't seen the book yet we can only comment on the music, but thankfully it does enough to keep our attention without additional visual stimulation. Sano appears to have based his suite of compositions on sampled gong or metallophone sounds, that he slows down to emphasize their rich tonality, highlighting their smooth edges with effervescent bursts of white noise. At its best, it sounds like a gamelan orchestra playing at 10% speed while a kettle boils in the distance - and we're not complaining. Pure meditative bliss.
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A collaboration between Japanese sound artist Akhira Sano, who's released on Important and Trilogy Tapes, and French photographer David Nissen, 'Shadow's Praise' is a creative dialog that can be interfaced with in multiple ways.
A painter as well as an electro-acoustic artist, Sano understands the relationship between visual art and sound. His past run of releases have already illustrated his painterly control of dynamics and time-fluxing organic composition, and this ambitious collaboration with Nissen might be his deepest statement yet. It's intended to exist in two forms, as a book that Nissen describes as "an atmospheric journey through fog, rain and fading lights" and as a Sano's full-length album, and the release can be enjoyed independently, or listened to while leafing through the book.
Since we haven't seen the book yet we can only comment on the music, but thankfully it does enough to keep our attention without additional visual stimulation. Sano appears to have based his suite of compositions on sampled gong or metallophone sounds, that he slows down to emphasize their rich tonality, highlighting their smooth edges with effervescent bursts of white noise. At its best, it sounds like a gamelan orchestra playing at 10% speed while a kettle boils in the distance - and we're not complaining. Pure meditative bliss.
A collaboration between Japanese sound artist Akhira Sano, who's released on Important and Trilogy Tapes, and French photographer David Nissen, 'Shadow's Praise' is a creative dialog that can be interfaced with in multiple ways.
A painter as well as an electro-acoustic artist, Sano understands the relationship between visual art and sound. His past run of releases have already illustrated his painterly control of dynamics and time-fluxing organic composition, and this ambitious collaboration with Nissen might be his deepest statement yet. It's intended to exist in two forms, as a book that Nissen describes as "an atmospheric journey through fog, rain and fading lights" and as a Sano's full-length album, and the release can be enjoyed independently, or listened to while leafing through the book.
Since we haven't seen the book yet we can only comment on the music, but thankfully it does enough to keep our attention without additional visual stimulation. Sano appears to have based his suite of compositions on sampled gong or metallophone sounds, that he slows down to emphasize their rich tonality, highlighting their smooth edges with effervescent bursts of white noise. At its best, it sounds like a gamelan orchestra playing at 10% speed while a kettle boils in the distance - and we're not complaining. Pure meditative bliss.
A collaboration between Japanese sound artist Akhira Sano, who's released on Important and Trilogy Tapes, and French photographer David Nissen, 'Shadow's Praise' is a creative dialog that can be interfaced with in multiple ways.
A painter as well as an electro-acoustic artist, Sano understands the relationship between visual art and sound. His past run of releases have already illustrated his painterly control of dynamics and time-fluxing organic composition, and this ambitious collaboration with Nissen might be his deepest statement yet. It's intended to exist in two forms, as a book that Nissen describes as "an atmospheric journey through fog, rain and fading lights" and as a Sano's full-length album, and the release can be enjoyed independently, or listened to while leafing through the book.
Since we haven't seen the book yet we can only comment on the music, but thankfully it does enough to keep our attention without additional visual stimulation. Sano appears to have based his suite of compositions on sampled gong or metallophone sounds, that he slows down to emphasize their rich tonality, highlighting their smooth edges with effervescent bursts of white noise. At its best, it sounds like a gamelan orchestra playing at 10% speed while a kettle boils in the distance - and we're not complaining. Pure meditative bliss.