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IL GRAND SILENZO - Dry Lake
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Edition of 300. "First single by this amazing Japanese duo, who tranform banjo and homemade electronics into tendrils of sparse mystery motion. Single line plunks and small squeedles have rarely (if ever) been wed so brilliantly." — Byron Coley, The Wire.
"Meeuw Muzak continues its journey towards unspecified horizons, leaving the footprints of a different
animal each time. If youre a good tracker and you know your fauna then everything is cool, otherwise
this stuff will go over your head while youre looking down at shapes in the hot and shifting sand.
This latest example to puzzle your ears is from the Japanese duo Il Grande Silenzio,
who both also work in the field of contemporary art. Perhaps unsurprisingly,
listening to this music is a little like looking at something, maybe the “silent
characters in a monotone world” referred to on the Two Acorns website. Theres a lot
of space to these slow pieces, both dimensional and durational, but upfront in your
field of vision sits Atsuo Ogawa and his banjo, a rarely-represented instrument in
improvised music but very effective here. Then quietly somewhere at the back we have
Minoru Sato playing self-built electronics.
Theres an interesting marriage of form and content whereby the recording method
seems intended to highlight the contrast between the brash and folksy tones of the
banjo, albeit played in simple, clear, isolated notes, and the mysterious tinkle and
scrape that the ear strains to hear behind. One feels witness to the unfolding of a
narrative you cant fully comprehend, and the effect is to be pulled into a reverie.
Il Grande Silenzio is the title of a spaghetti western, which seems a perfect fit
with the lingual ambiguity of these two pieces." - Pete Um, Summer 2014.
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"Meeuw Muzak continues its journey towards unspecified horizons, leaving the footprints of a different
animal each time. If youre a good tracker and you know your fauna then everything is cool, otherwise
this stuff will go over your head while youre looking down at shapes in the hot and shifting sand.
This latest example to puzzle your ears is from the Japanese duo Il Grande Silenzio,
who both also work in the field of contemporary art. Perhaps unsurprisingly,
listening to this music is a little like looking at something, maybe the “silent
characters in a monotone world” referred to on the Two Acorns website. Theres a lot
of space to these slow pieces, both dimensional and durational, but upfront in your
field of vision sits Atsuo Ogawa and his banjo, a rarely-represented instrument in
improvised music but very effective here. Then quietly somewhere at the back we have
Minoru Sato playing self-built electronics.
Theres an interesting marriage of form and content whereby the recording method
seems intended to highlight the contrast between the brash and folksy tones of the
banjo, albeit played in simple, clear, isolated notes, and the mysterious tinkle and
scrape that the ear strains to hear behind. One feels witness to the unfolding of a
narrative you cant fully comprehend, and the effect is to be pulled into a reverie.
Il Grande Silenzio is the title of a spaghetti western, which seems a perfect fit
with the lingual ambiguity of these two pieces." - Pete Um, Summer 2014.
