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Shining

by Minamo

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1.
Crumbling 12:57
2.
Raum 04:31
3.
Serene 04:37
4.
Tone 08:26
5.
Stay Still 08:38
6.
We Were 08:08

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12k is proud to announce the latest release from Japan’s Minamo. Shining is the quartet’s 5th full-length release to date and continues in a common tradition of being sourced and edited from live performance recordings, a practice central to the band’s interest in improvisational forms and organic track growth.

While guitar is still the prominent instrument, Shining takes a slightly different path from the drone-oriented releases of the past. Still pursuing vague and evasive atmospheres Minamo now inject much more prominent rhythm and turbulence, as on “Crumbling’s” software driven looping or “Stay Still’s” 16th note picked guitar repetition that is quietly offset by sparse piano. This is part of what makes Shining a work of subtle pairings and contrasts. Digital hums and crackles merge with the glacial pace of peaceful, melodic string resonance, blurred echoes of familiar sounds fall away into pools of feedback. This is highly free-formed work yet at the same time there is an obvious communication between musicians (and instruments) that makes Minamo’s music a language unique to a 4-piece band as they continue to explore the unstable boundaries of free improv, post-rock, and live electronic ambience.

Minamo are:
Keiichi Sugimoto: guitar and computer
Yuichiro Iwashita: acoustic guitar
Namiko Sasamoto: keyboards
Tetsuro Yasunaga: computer and electronics

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released May 3, 2005

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Minamo Tokyo, Japan

Formed in 1999 by Keiichi Sugimoto and Tetsuro Yasunaga. Minamo has released original albums on a number of labels including 12K and Room40.
In addition to Their activities as Minamo, Sugimoto works as a solo artist as FourColor, FilFla, and Vegpher, and creates music for theaters and commercials. Yasunaga participates in various planning and production projects as "Yasunaga Tetsuro Jimushitsu”.
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