Tomonao Koshikawa
Nebula
Following his first album Footprint on ato.archives, this new release marks the second solo work by Tomonao Koshikawa. In it, he presents the results of his fifty-year exploration of drone music.
Tomonao Koshikawa is a Japanese musician playing experimental, jazz and rock, Indian classical music and Kanze school Noh theater songs. He studied with Takehisa Kosugi in 1975 and joined legendary improvisation group East Bionic Symphonia and he is a member of Marginal Consort.
Footprint
Tip! Limited edition. Stunning tape by Tomonao Koshikawa (of Takehisa Kosugi, East Bionic Symphonia and Marginal Consort fame), mastered by Taku Unami. Falling somewhere in liminal space between cosmic music, drone, and musique concrète, with immersive long tones and remarkable harmonic interplay, sculpting a spacial universe entirely their own. It is a stunning, immersive blanket of tones.
Anton Webern Variations for Piano, op.27 I – IIII programmed the notes of the composition with a Yamaha QY…