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Label

Trouble In Mind

Hiiragi Fukuda

Seacide

Hiiragi Fukuda turned a lot of 'heads' with his 2013 album 'My Turntable Is Slow' - released on NY label Selection Records. For many outside of his hometown of Tokyo, Japan it was their first introduction to the guitarist & experimental musician. TiM hopes to carry his name into 2015 with the release of 'Seacide' - Fukuda s first foray into synthesizer music. Orginally released as a criminally limited cassette on Sloow Tapes, 'Seacide' is entirely instrumental & improvised, with Side A (the 'synth' side) executed on a Yamaha monophonic synth, it s hypnotic drones & pulses echoing out of his practice amplifier and carving out sonic territory akin to NY pioneers Suicide as well as UK Industrial godfathers Throbbing Gristle. Trochos s metallic heartbeat radiates a meditative spirituality while the back & forth sway of 'Sharpener' conjures up images of 8-bit generated waves cascading over a computer-coded sea side. Side B (the 'guitar side') features Fukuda s stratocaster, with opener 'Seashells' easing out a fragile, mechanical lullaby, while album closer 'Breeze' features more of Fukuda s soulful finger-picking atop a jaunty bossa beat. The album was recorded in just two days by Fukuda himself in his Tokyo bedroom, with a Boss DD-6 (as a Loop machine - it can record only 5.2 seconds) & captured sonically by a Sony TCM-400 onto a cheap cassette tape (made in indonesia).

Tracklist

• 1. 316L
  2. Trochos
  3. Sharpener
  4. Seashells
  5. Breeze