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O

  • Cat No: ARTPL-229
  • updated:2025-03-11

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CD 2420 JPY

A collaboration between electronic music pioneer and elder statesman Ariel Kalma and the multinational progressive percussion trio Asa Tone!!! The CD includes the bonus track "Dial"!

A collaborative release between ASA TONE — whose Japan shows last year were superb — and legendary French experimental musician Ariel Kalma, who fuses French new age, ambient, and minimal elements. Of course the ASA TONE signature is intact; they've already got their formula down. A reliably floating cosmic scroll. On repeat as always. (Shhhhh)

*Not listed in the tracklist on this site, but a bonus track "Dial" is included as track 7.

Asa Tone is a multinational music project comprising Jakarta-born Melati Malay (also a member of Young Magic / Carpark), multimedia artist Tristan Arp (founder of Human Pitch), and Kaazi, an anonymous project releasing on 100% Silk. Recorded over ten days in a makeshift studio in the jungle outside Jakarta, their debut album "Temporary Music," released on Leaving Records in early 2020, became a talking point everywhere, placing 4th in the electronic music category of Music Magazine's "Best Albums 2020" and remaining a long-seller — and now comes this unexpected meeting with Ariel Kalma, the heavyweight known as a pioneer of electronic music!

Paris-born electronic music pioneer and 1970s GRM alumnus Ariel Kalma joins the multinational New York trio Asa Tone (Kaazi, Melati ESP, Tristan Arp) for a series of intergenerational, psychoactive, electro-acoustic studio dialogues, exploring the elasticity of rhythm and wind instruments — or, as early listeners observed, "time and space."

During the pandemic, Melati and Kaazi happened to meet Ariel at his studio in the Australian rainforest and began recording extended live takes with Kalma, remotely weaving in Tristan Arp's bioluminescent synth improvisations from afar.
Completed years later through edits made at their respective homes in New York and Indonesia, "O" documents a pivotal moment in the lives of everyone who played on the album — an ode to memory and connection in a time of crisis. It is illuminated by steel flute, kantilan, modular synthesizer, xaphoon, tenor saxophone, EWI, field recordings of the surrounding rainforest, and flickering fragments of the human voice. (Original Japanese text by Shhhhh)

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