★Muzan Editions
Spring Spring
* Edition of 100 * Another exciting cross-connection stretches from Japan to Düsseldorf and back to Japan, to the natural and traditional small town of Nara in the hinterland of Osaka. Miki Yui, Tokyo-born Rhineland pioneer of a minimalist sound art that is able to break the boundaries between synthetic and natural sound and merge them, has created for the tape label Muzan Editions, operated in Nara by a German and a Canadian expat, the Label-typical sound understanding of minimal electronics pe…
Long-term Memory
* Edition of 100 * Joshua Stefane aka Endurance, one of the operators of Muzan Editions, is working extremely productively and inspired this year. Not only in a curatorial sense, but also as a producer. In this role, he adds ideas from Sound Art, Ambient and Electronica to sound spaces that continue Kankyō Ongaku, the Japanese environmental music of the eighties and nineties, as well as a very current understanding of the environment, ambient and drone, as it has become in the sound Solastalgia …
Summer Breeze
* Edition of 100 * Wouter Jaspers returns to Muzan with his long time collaborator and friend Steffan de Turck as Preliminary Saturation. Summer Breeze is an ambient-noise album that lives up to its name for just how pleasurable it is to listen to. The music box melody that provides the main theme for “across the floor” functions as a soft counterpoint to the noises and drones that pulse and slide beneath it, evoking images of sunlight and slow stretching shadows. “the house next door” strikes a…