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​Mostly we put our daily recommendations here for the blog readers among you, although occasionally we go longform.
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28/2/2022 1 Comment

Am Shhara - Shinsoko (Muzan Editions)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks Like
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WHAT WE SAY

Ease your way into the week with Am Shhara's wonderful debut LP for Muzan Editions as she immediately cements herself into the world of Japanese ambient music with a soothing yet never insipid Gaudiesque ambient mosaic of becalmed synths & life's surface noise, peppered with healing crystalline tones.

WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY

一瞬で目の前の景色を180度変えるような出来事が、人生ではときどき起こる。それは絶望の淵に見た一本の美しい虹のように、または穏やかな朝に取った一本の電話のように、正弦波的ではなくのこぎり波的に、突然の急上昇や急降下を伴いながら、ストーリーを形作っていく。本作、名古屋を拠点とする作曲家Am Shharaによる「Shinsoko」には、そんなハッと胸をつく瞬間が溢れている。溢れているというか、その連続によってこの作品の世界観が作り上げられていると言った方が適切かもしれない。実家の布団に入ったときのようなぬくもりと、夜のジャングルを歩くときのような緊張が、一方が寄せては一方が引き、それをドラスティックに、不規則に繰り返す。一つの感情をはっきりと意識した瞬間に、その感情は別のなにかに変化していく、そういう音楽体験が得られる。砂袋のようにずっしりとしたドローンのトビに、針が落ちるかのごとく繊細な振動がエコーを伴い重なることで、まるで懐中電灯で照らされた洞穴のように、空間的な奥行きが姿を現す。そして自分とこの作品の位置関係も徐々に明らかになるような気がする。そんなことを感じながら聴いているうちに、気が付けばかなり長い時間が経っていたようだ。 
(言葉:Dotei Records @doteirecords ) 

Nagoya’s Am Shhara joins Muzan for the release of her debut album, Shinsoko, meaning “bottom of the heart” in Japanese. In Shinsoko, Am Shhara crafts a vibrant world, one that is teeming with life, light, and shadow. Pure FM sounds ring out in the darkness like blinking fireflies, ghostly samples dance across the stereo field, and low, textured drones swell in and out slowly, like the patient breathing of the world. Compositionally, the album feels like a collage of disparate parts that, when put together, form a cohesive whole, with amorphous sample-based textures, crystalline melodies, and plucky arpeggios all falling perfectly into place. 

​ Credits
Composed and recorded by 
Am Shhara in Nagoya, Japan. 
Equipment used: Digitone, Digitakt, 
Ableton Live, and modular synths. 

Mastering by Kris Keogh. 
Art and layout by Endurance.

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