opitope - hau

July 5, 2007

from spekk(awesome label)....

http://www.spekk.net/catalog/hau.html (few samples)

1. A White Cloth Falling from the Snow Branches

2. Trees Reflecting on the Surface of the Lake

3. A Goat's Horn

4. A Far Room

5. A Quiet Morning Arriving to the Valley

6. Bird Standing on the Fall

7. Coral Sand's Backside

8. Mist on the Sea

9. A Place under the Paired Sal Tree

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Text by Date Tomoyoshi and Chihei Hatakeyama (Opitope)

This an imaginary album traveling from the north to south, overlapping the images of transition of the four seasons. In reality, indeed one things always leads to an end and I feel sad every time I think about that. In this album, we tried to express this sorrow feeling changing gradually into hope as we travel south. Seasons have no end. It always moves from spring, summer, autumn, winter back to spring.. And just like the changing seasons, the tracks in this album constantly shifts another and the last piece connects to the very beginning which forms the never ending circle. We have expressed the images of these "endings" with "never endings" by music. These thoughts were brought up naturally during the making of this album and it's not that we had this idea from the start. Another concept of this album is "symmetry". There are 9 pieces in this album and is constructed by track 5 being the axis of the symmetry - like in terms os composition, 1st track is a piano piece and also the 9th track. The same thing goes to the arrangements like you will notice sounds that forms contrasts between the left & right speaker.

beautiful, lovely, serene, etc. i am in love with this release.

The Green Kingdom · July 5, 2007

YES! Waiting for Darla to stock this as well as the Ken Ikeda release. Spekk can do no wrong imo. I loved the Opitope track on the Small Melodies comp and Chihei's album on Kranky, so I'm really looking forward to this...