- asuna
ASUNA
"organ leaf"
LOS APSON?とKURARA AUDIO ARTSにおいてカセットテープで発表していた1999年から2002年までのオルガンのドローン／電子音響の作品がアルバムになりました。
■ label page
lucky kitchen - (http://www.luckykitchen.com/spark2/lk022.html)
■ review
■ Asuna
Asuna is a very young Japanese musician. His reeds organ plays are surprisingly sweet and melancholic. Through nearly academic methodology he makes tracks to evoke the seasons he sees changing outiside his window overlooking the hills of the Tokyo outskirts.
□ Alejandra and Aeron (http://www.luckykitchen.com/)
『Lucky Kitchen』のウェブサイトより転載。(2003.12.01)
■ asuna "organ leaf"
自身が想起した「物語」が元になって作られたというこのトラックは、そもそも自主制作でリリースしたテープ作品の中から厳選。彼が幻視した世界をまるまるトレースした珠玉の1stソロ・アルバム。窒息しそうにきらきら光るセンスと瑞々しい才能を感じよう。
□ 吉田アミ
『Improvised Music from Japan 2004』誌上より転載。(2004.12.05)
■ Asuna "Organ Leaf"
Das hier ist mit Sicherheit die melodischste, damit auch klassischste, der neuen Lucky Kitchen Releases. Auch wenn die Titel der 4 Tracks manchmal so klingen, als ware es eher assoziative Musik dreht sich hier doch alles um die heimliche und schleichende Verwandlung von Loops und Sounds in immer bildlichere Welten. Musik, die irgendwie so klingt als ware sie eher so etwas wie eine kleiner warmer Luftzug, oder ein bischen Hitze, die von der reflektierten Sonne das Licht der Dinge leicht wackeln lasst.
□ DE:BUG
『DE:BUG』 誌上より転載。
■ Asuna "Organ Leaf"
The changing of the seasons is a potent subject for musicians. Notions of cyclicality, decay and renewal lend themselves naturally to musical tropes such as warmth, coldness and repetition. It’s a challenge risen to with aplomb by Asuna, a young Japanese composer who lurks under the Asuna alias.
Asuna was apparently inspired to create the four pieces on Organ Leaf by the changing view from his window overlooking the hills outside Tokyo. As a result, the disc is a shapeshifting blend of sounds and textures, predominantly pastoral in mood. The titles indicate the time of year depicted by each track, along with imagistic hints at what was outside that window at the time. Thus, the opening “citrus trees, wheels paddle, azurite sea, July” is a light and sunny confection of organic synth washes, soft bass throb and liquid, bubbling drones. The piece’s carefully layered patterns and gentle propulsive motion work perfectly as an evocation of a warm summer’s day.
The second, much shorter track, “stray rabbit, morning fog, November,” adopts a slower, more wintry feel. Abstract metallic frequencies blur and melt into fuzzy, murky tones. This harsher mood is sustained at the outset of track three, “strawberry circuit, childhood, (sister, seasons, letter), October,” with its disorientating collage of voices and street noises. The piece modulates, however, into a beautifully extended reverie, with children’s voices and tinkling bells overlaying a silvery soundscape reminiscent of Tangerine Dream at their spaciest. Finally, Asuna depicts spring in “ten petals, small calm, May” as a time of fragile expectancy, suffused with softly chiming bells and floating, evanescent atmospheres.
□ Richard Rees Jones - Viennese Waltz
(http://viennesewaltz.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/asuna-organ-leaf/)
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