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Sakan & Senju
Sakan & Senju
Les Editions Japonais
- Cat No: LEJEP003
- updated:2020-10-30
A collaboration between IKU SAKAN and Senju Muneomi has been released on vinyl via JAPAN BLUES's label 〈LES EDITIONS JAPONAIS〉. A document of music born in Osaka.
Track List
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A. Green Journey
10:49 -
B1. Santoor
8:52 -
B2. Senpuuki
8:18
"I want to be the pure goodness of the human heart to battle against the evil wills in this world” - John Coltrane, 1966 Tokyo press conference.
Iku Sakan, in 2004, co-produced 15 copies of a handmade CDr with Muneomi Senju and handed a copy to Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Tokyo for his last festival appearance in Japan - this release is the vinyl version of that CDr. In 2010 Sakan started playing steel drum at Görlizer Park, Berlin, and later met Tori Kudo in Japan to occasionally collaborate with Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
Performing in the Berlin DIY / noise / improv scene, from 2014-2016 Sakan started work in his home studio, culminating in three releases in 2017 - the tapes Human Wave Music (Natural Sciences); Cepheidian (Planet Almanac); and LP Prism in Us All (Japan Blues); in 2018, a tape on Atlantic Rhythms, Bloom Strings. After that, he released a 51 minute opus, Life Signs In Staccatissimo, on Open Hand Real Flames. A new work is due, on a compilation EP on Workshop.
He has played with Sun Araw, Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Pekka Airaksinen, Günter Schickert, and Damo Suzuki, among others, and currently co-runs the music studio ICECREAM MUSIC in Osaka, with Koshiro Hino (YPY/goat), and sound engineer Bunsho Nishikawa.
"Sakan in 2017 has finally exposed us to his singular sound, could be krautrock, certainly spiritual - but thankfully – un-definable." – Japan Blues
[Of Prism In Us All] ‘one of those records that so simply and directly articulates something magical, that you feel you should give up making records’ – Bass Clef
Muneomi Senju played drums in the Boredoms and Urichipangoon, he has also performed with Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, EP-4, Keigo Oyamada (aka Cornelius), Yukihiro Takahashi, Haruomi Hosono, Damo Suzuki and Jim O'Rourke. He composes soundtracks, remixes, and compositions for theatre (Rimini Protokoll), fashion shows (Issey Miyake), and TV commercials.
'Green Journey' - voice, kalimba, cardboard box, shakers build a hypnotic anxiety,
‘Santoor’ – a cathedral raga leads us into a frenetic freak out,.
‘Senpuuki’ – a meditative Spaghetti Western, down Dusseldorf way.
LP comes housed in silk screened artwork courtesy of Walden Studios.
Iku Sakan, in 2004, co-produced 15 copies of a handmade CDr with Muneomi Senju and handed a copy to Karlheinz Stockhausen, in Tokyo for his last festival appearance in Japan - this release is the vinyl version of that CDr. In 2010 Sakan started playing steel drum at Görlizer Park, Berlin, and later met Tori Kudo in Japan to occasionally collaborate with Maher Shalal Hash Baz.
Performing in the Berlin DIY / noise / improv scene, from 2014-2016 Sakan started work in his home studio, culminating in three releases in 2017 - the tapes Human Wave Music (Natural Sciences); Cepheidian (Planet Almanac); and LP Prism in Us All (Japan Blues); in 2018, a tape on Atlantic Rhythms, Bloom Strings. After that, he released a 51 minute opus, Life Signs In Staccatissimo, on Open Hand Real Flames. A new work is due, on a compilation EP on Workshop.
He has played with Sun Araw, Anders Lauge Meldgaard, Pekka Airaksinen, Günter Schickert, and Damo Suzuki, among others, and currently co-runs the music studio ICECREAM MUSIC in Osaka, with Koshiro Hino (YPY/goat), and sound engineer Bunsho Nishikawa.
"Sakan in 2017 has finally exposed us to his singular sound, could be krautrock, certainly spiritual - but thankfully – un-definable." – Japan Blues
[Of Prism In Us All] ‘one of those records that so simply and directly articulates something magical, that you feel you should give up making records’ – Bass Clef
Muneomi Senju played drums in the Boredoms and Urichipangoon, he has also performed with Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, Otomo Yoshihide, EP-4, Keigo Oyamada (aka Cornelius), Yukihiro Takahashi, Haruomi Hosono, Damo Suzuki and Jim O'Rourke. He composes soundtracks, remixes, and compositions for theatre (Rimini Protokoll), fashion shows (Issey Miyake), and TV commercials.
'Green Journey' - voice, kalimba, cardboard box, shakers build a hypnotic anxiety,
‘Santoor’ – a cathedral raga leads us into a frenetic freak out,.
‘Senpuuki’ – a meditative Spaghetti Western, down Dusseldorf way.
LP comes housed in silk screened artwork courtesy of Walden Studios.
A brand-new release from 〈LES EDITIONS JAPONAIS〉, the label run by HOWARD WILLIAMS aka JAPAN BLUES, who has worked with the likes of HONEST JON'S and THE TRILOGY TAPES while based in the UK, introducing Japanese music—from folk songs and kayokyoku to experimental music—through an alternative lens. This is a collaboration between SAKAN (in his pre-Berlin days), who has since returned to Japan and now shares a studio with YPY / Koshiro Hino, and drummer Muneomi Senju, who would go on to play in numerous projects including PARA, Urichipangoon, Boredoms and DCPRG. Recorded in 2003 and 2004, these legendary recordings were originally distributed handmade in an edition of just 15 copies. (One of them apparently ended up in the hands of Karlheinz Stockhausen during a visit to Japan.) Percussion combines with lo-fi electronics, custom-built instruments, effects and samplers to create a unique sound that feels influenced by both ethnic music and minimalism. The craft-board artwork by London's WALDEN PRESS, who work with woodblock prints, vintage metal plates and proofing presses, is also superb. (Original Japanese text by Saito)