Shop - Koichi Shimizu – Wholetone (HTN 002)

Descripción

Koichi Shimizu is a peculiar case. A sound engineer and composer born in Japan, studied in New York City and based in Bangkok. His scope outranges the usual radar, spanning film, installations, concerts, music production – In Apichatpong Weerasthakul’s film “Syndromes and a Century”, for which Shimizu did the sound design, there is a particular passage called “Black Hole”:
A disgressive, hypnotic camera journey capturing still lifes of the film’s scenes accompanied by an eerie ambient sound field. The passage ends with a close-up on the black hole of the ventilation pipe at a hospital’s construction area swallowing up white fog into the void; imagine you’re falling through a soft Riemann-hymen within a tunneling crystalline chrysalis. Thundering thumps and a chanting moose’s vibrant voice are cracking the nacreous walls, triggering showers of sharp bleeping needle-slivers, trickling drops, hissing dust, hazy organic flashes, soaring silver orbs and sweet humming sirens, guiding the sailor into a charybdic maelstrom.

Release date: January 17th, 2017.

Tracklist:

A1 Oriens
A2 Rumble
B1 FK (feat sYn)
B2 Wholetone