Another year, another great release from the Brazilian-Japanese artist Tomoyoshi Date. This time, again, a collaboration with Stijn Hüwels from Belgium. Together, the two gentlemen cast a musical enchantment on their listeners cause how else can this sonic beauty be explained?
The music here is very slow. Actually, you can barely hear it move. But it does, in the tiniest of waves, like a lake in the darkness before dawn. There are other small proofs of the fact that life is somewhere there, living on the edge of the compositions. It's the soft, intimate piano key sounds, not entirely providing you with melodies, but also not entirely lacking those. I feel like this album is about nature, but, in fact, it's the exact opposite. The title means "a building" and the tracks further confirm that. So, I guess, it's an office building at night? I don't know, cause office buildings and what they're about at night may be one of those unsolved mysteries of the reality around us.
But one thing is sure: it's just one of the most melancholic but also comforting albums these days.
Tatemono costs 7 EUR.
Check: Corridor / Rouka / 廊下
Country: Brazil/Japan/Belgium
Genre: piano ambient
Label: LAAPS
