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TATSURO MURAKAMI - in/naka (2023)

TATSURO MURAKAMI - in/naka (2023)

BAND/ARTIST: TATSURO MURAKAMI

  • Title: in/naka
  • Year Of Release: 2023
  • Label: ROHS! Records / Lontano Series
  • Genre: Ambient, Jazz, Fusion
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 30 min
  • Total Size: 84 mb
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The album expresses the cross-relationship between the idea of inner work and farm work, which was inspired by Murakami's experience in the Japanese countryside, where he stayed for several months in 2022, learning from organic rice cultivation and forest restoration.
Each song is based on stories and teachings he learnt from the farmers, as well as the existence of the living creatures and plants he observed. Daily activities in the field are full of repetition and unpredictability, which inspired him to think of the countryside ("inaka”, in Japanese) as a place of internality, or inner place.
The sounds are composed of a combination of acoustic instruments with an experimental texture process generated by some guitar pedals and a tape loop process. The music constructions are a mixture of some drone/ambient texture and the influence of jazz/ Brazilian choro chord progressions, using Brazilian classical/steel 7 string guitar, electric guitar, bass, analog/digital synth and voice.

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"A featherlight love letter to Japanese agrarian life that draws parallels between ambient, field recording, and Brazilian guitar music.."
(Bandcamp "New and Notable" review)

Tatsuro Murakami is a Japanese guitarist, composer. He grew up in Tokyo until doing an exchange program from Japanese high school to Brazilian high school for a year in 2012. He decided to return to Brazil to study Brazilian culture and music in 2014 and started to record with his progressive rock project “Da Zai” with Andras Ellendersen. Since 2016, he also started to work as a composer/sound designer for short movies, documentaries, art installations, and video art. In 2020, He graduated from "Tatuí Conservatory of the states of Sao Paulo”, which is one of the most important conservatories in Latin America, specializing in Brazilian Choro / Popular Music on Classical and Brazilian 7-string guitar. Murakami's composition has a unique sound style which is a mix of Japanese minimal with ambient drone sound and the influence of Brazilian chord progression and melody, making use of electric and classic guitar, electric piano, and synthesizer.

Tracklist:
1.01 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - Paddy Field School (4:13)
1.02 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - Midnight, Wind and the Sea (3:48)
1.03 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - 1970, in Her Sentimental Journey (3:55)
1.04 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - Inferno Astral III (3:22)
1.05 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - Tomatoes in a House (4:43)
1.06 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - Frog's Fate (3:45)
1.07 - TATSURO MURAKAMI - Music for Shuro (6:19)

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