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SHIROTSUBAKI, HIROTAKA + SLEEPLAND - Etude 3

Format: mCD-R Label & Cat.Number: Taalem alm117 Release Year: 2017 Note: spacious guitar-drones in subtle clouds, in the way of CHIHEI HATAKEYAMA, MIRROR or ULTRA MILKMAIDS... nice collab by these two ambient artists from Japan Price (incl. 19% VAT): €5.00 More Info tokyo-based hirotaka shirotsubaki and now berlin-based sleepland have separately created for a few years some fine ambient/drone soundscapes, mostly self-released for hirotaka and for instance on white paddy mountain for sleepland. from time to time they also create together beautiful tracks. previous collaborations were released as, you may have guessed it, "étude 1" and "étude 2" (digital self-releases by hirotaka). taalem.bandcamp.com/album/tude-3-alm-117 "Both Hirotaka Shirotsubaki and Sleepland are from Japan and even when the latter relocated to Berlin they still work together. I had not heard of Shirotsubaki, but Sleepland had a record out on White Paddy Mountain (see Vital Weekly 1008). Now here space is the place. The two artists recorded together (I assume via e-mail) some long formed spacious pieces of music, perhaps with the use of guitars, loop stations and a bunch of reverb pedals coupled together. Sound wise I was reminded of Chihei Hatakeyama here, who has a similar approach to play the sustained ringing guitar. Lots of reverb times lots of delay and a bit of hiss make up a sound that just is very well suited from dreaming or sleeping (not that I would do that when I play music, but it’s a thought that occurred to me with the name Sleepland). Not too long, a bit ominous and it works just fine." [FdW/Vital Weekly]