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Gak Sato and Tadahiko Yokogawa
Renga
WRWTFWW - Cat No: WRWTFWW124
- Release: 2026-03-27
- updated:2026-04-30
A collaboration between Gak Sato — who has been active in Milan, Italy as director of Right Tempo Records and as a musician — and singer-songwriter/violinist Michihiko Yokokawa. The album takes its inspiration from "renga," the Japanese linked-verse form in which multiple poets take turns composing alternating 5-7-5 and 7-7 syllable stanzas.
Track List
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A1. Lawrence
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A2. Domenica
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A3. The Onliest
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A4. Godzilla Blues
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A5. Takoyakushi
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B1. Big Boy
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B2. Turismo
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B3. Poco Dopo
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B4. Gnade
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B5. Flos
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WRWTFWW Records is very happy to announce the release of Renga, the new collaborative album from Gak Sato and Tadahiko Yokogawa - available on limited edition LP (300 copies worldwide !) housed in a heavyweight sleeve with inside out print of a beautiful artwork by Aoi Huber Kono.
Renga (??, linked poem) is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ku (?), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 morae (sound units or syllables per line) are linked in succession by multiple poets.
Inspired by the traditional Japanese poetic form of linked verses, Renga unfolds as a fluid 10-track journey spanning ambient, jazz, breakbeats, electronica, environmental music, techno, cinematic, library music, and musique concrète. Much like its literary namesake, the album is built on intuition and shared momentum, each piece emerging from what came before while opening new paths forward. Beats appear, disappear, then reassemble, while textures shift between organic warmth and electronic abstraction. The result is music that resists fixed categorization, existing somewhere between known subgenres and free-form exploration.
The album's visual counterpart, created by Aoi Huber Kono, mirrors the sensibility of the music. It's elegant, modern, and quietly expressive, extending the idea of linked forms from sound into image.
Points of interest
Renga (??, linked poem) is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry in which alternating stanzas, or ku (?), of 5-7-5 and 7-7 morae (sound units or syllables per line) are linked in succession by multiple poets.
Inspired by the traditional Japanese poetic form of linked verses, Renga unfolds as a fluid 10-track journey spanning ambient, jazz, breakbeats, electronica, environmental music, techno, cinematic, library music, and musique concrète. Much like its literary namesake, the album is built on intuition and shared momentum, each piece emerging from what came before while opening new paths forward. Beats appear, disappear, then reassemble, while textures shift between organic warmth and electronic abstraction. The result is music that resists fixed categorization, existing somewhere between known subgenres and free-form exploration.
The album's visual counterpart, created by Aoi Huber Kono, mirrors the sensibility of the music. It's elegant, modern, and quietly expressive, extending the idea of linked forms from sound into image.
Points of interest
Set against a backdrop of library music and musique concrète, the sound is steeped in experimental electronic music and the improvisational spirit of jazz. Theremin, synthesizer and electronics meet violin, synthesizer and electronics. Ten tracks, including a Donald Byrd cover. Limited edition of 300 LPs.
Extending the album's concept of interconnection across different fields, the artwork is by Swiss-based visual artist Aoi Huber Kono. (Original Japanese text by Saito)