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Various Artists
Sound Surrounding On Sado
Experimental Rooms - Cat No: ERLP-006
- updated:2026-04-28
An obscure sound documentary spun by 10 artists who live in the residential environment of Sado Island.
Track List
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1. Sadrum - Kagero
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2. Yuta Sumiyoshi - Singing
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3. plantar - Subtle Whisper
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4. Gilles Stassart & La Pagode - Golden Galette
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5. Charles Munka - Holloways
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6. Morito Yoshida - Denpa
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7. Kota Aoki - Kyou
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8. Miyuki Fukunishi - From The Northwest
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9. the fugu plan? - YOSHITAYA
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10. Masayasu Maeda - 37.813, 138.270
現在も数多くの能舞台が各集落に残り、海山に囲まれた豊かな自然とともに能楽や鬼太鼓が今も生活に息付く佐渡島。今作は島の文化や風土を暮らしの背景に持ちながらも新たな創造の息吹を感じさせる、2025年に現存する佐渡島の音楽と人々を記録するために制作されたコンピレーション・アルバム。伝統を超え新たな地平を切り拓く太鼓芸能集団・鼓童の重要人物である「住吉佑太」と「前田順康」によるそれぞれのソロ、佐渡に自生する孟宗竹から竹太鼓を自作し独自のグルーヴを創出するグループ「サドラム」、ポップスから前衛まで多才な作曲センスを魅せる音楽家・佐藤望による「プランタール」、佐渡でレストラン<ラ・パゴッド>を営み食とアートの融合を試みるシェフ/美術家「ジル・スタッサール」、世界中の試し書きをアート作品へと昇華させる美術家であり能を題材としたアンビエント・ミックスを制作する「シャルル・ムンカ」、さどの島銀河芸術祭を先導しつつ自らも先鋭的な現代美術家として活動する「吉田盛之」、独創的な視点と美学を持った絵画や実験音楽の制作を行う「青木孝太」、90年代より音楽活動を開始し近年はラップトップを用いた新たな作曲の可能性を拡げる「福西みゆき」、ウクレレ奏者のユカとジョン・ゾーン主宰のTzadikからのリリースでも知られるベース奏者シャニール・エズラ・ブルーメンクランツによるユニット「ザ・フグ・プラン?」と総勢10組がここに大集結。更にジャケット写真には佐渡在住の写真家/僧侶である「梶井照陰」が撮影した踊る佐渡の海波を捉えた「NAMI」を起用し、ライナーノーツには美術批評家でありさどの島銀河芸術祭アドバイザーを務めている「椹木野衣」が執筆するなど、作品を構成するもの全てが佐渡ならではの人々によって制作された、佐渡の<現在>をも示す渾身の1枚。

Numerous Noh stages still remain in each village, and Noh plays and Onidaiko drums are still a part of life on Sado Island, along with its rich natural environment surrounded by mountains and the sea. This compilation album was produced to document the music and people of Sado Island as it will exist in 2025. The album features solos by Yuta Sumiyoshi and Junko Maeda, both important members of the taiko performing arts group Kodo, which transcends tradition to explore new horizons; the group Sadram, which creates its own grooves by making its own bamboo drums from moso bamboo native to Sado; Nozomu Sato, a musician with a versatile compositional sense that ranges from pop to avant-garde music; and The group "Plantar", a musician Nozomu Sato with a versatile sense of composition from pop to avant-garde, "Gilles Stassard", a chef/artist who runs a restaurant "La Pagod" on Sado Island and tries to fuse food and art, "Charles Munka", an artist who sublimates test writings from around the world into art works and creates ambient mixes based on the theme of Noh, and "Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival", a pioneer of the Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival, who is also a radical artist in his own right. Moriyuki Yoshida, a cutting-edge contemporary artist and leader of the Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival; Kota Aoki, who creates paintings and experimental music from an original perspective and aesthetic; Miyuki Fukunishi, who has been active in music since the 1990s and has recently been expanding new compositional possibilities using a laptop; ukulele player Yuka and John Zorn, the leader of Tzadik. The Blowfish Plan?" is a unit of ukulele player Yuka and bass player Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz, who is also known for his releases on Tzadik, which is led by John Zorn. and a total of 10 groups have gathered here. The jacket photo features "NAMI," a photograph of the dancing waves of Sado taken by Teruane Kajii, a photographer and Buddhist monk living on Sado Island, and the liner notes are written by Noi Sawaragi, an art critic and advisor to the Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival. Everything that makes up this work was created by people unique to Sado Island, and it is a work that shows the "present" of Sado Island.