Tomotsugu Nakamura - For A Fleeting Moment (IIKKI) [Ambient Music]

A Few Brief Thoughts

It's rare that a label gets mentioned in dispatches twice in a week, but it's also rare that IIKKI release two LPs at the same time. For those unaware IIKKI is the artist/musician dialogue sister label to the similarly ambient obsessed, music only Laaps label.

On this new release TSMM fave Tomotsugu Nakamura provides the soundtrack for Swiss photographer Simone Kappeler's hazy, alternative world view with another space appreciating soundscape, rich in consciousness altering tones, surgically separated acoustic microsounds & his usual sense of magical music realism. It's another ambient music joy from this unfailingly impressive producer.

What The Release Notes Say

"For A Fleeting Moment" is the result of the dialogue between the Swiss photographer Simone Kappeler and the Japanese musician Tomotsugu Nakamura initiated by IIKKI, between March 2023 and May 2024.

the complete project works in two physical imprints:

a book and a disc (vinyl/cd)

it should be experienced in different ways :

the book read alone

the disc listened to alone

the book and the disc read and listened to together.

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Tomotsugu Nakamura is a musician and graphic designer residing in Tokyo, Japan. His primary artistic practice is to compose music with some fragments of minimal acoustic and electronic tones and some field recordings. In Concert, he he has played with various genre of musicians and his works have been released by Kaico, Audiobulb Records, and more recently by the French label LAAPS.

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Born in 1952 in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) where she lives and works, Simone Kappeler started taking pictures at the age of 11. After studying German literature and art history, she studied photography at the Zurich University of the Arts. During a three-month trip to the United States in 1981, she took her first pictures using cheap cameras, especially the Diana camera.

Hasselblad, Leica, Diana, Brownie, Polaroid, disposable camera, expired or infrared films, since 1970, Simone Kappeler has explored all types of photographic techniques. Her work, experimental and poetic, reveals to us the curiously foreign world that surrounds us.

Since 1982, ongoing projects in southern France and the Grisons.1982/83, studio in New York, conceptual photography and Super 8 films. 1983/84, theater photographer, Schauspielhaus Zürich. 2009, six-week photographic study of Japan, 2015 studio in New York.

Her work was the subject of a first monograph: "Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964–2011", edited by Hatje Cantz and is regularly exhibited in Galleries and Museum in Europe and United States.

For A Fleeting Moment is her first book gathered exclusively a part of her wide polaroid works from 2011 to 2023.

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for more infos + photos :

www.iikki-books.com/iikki-024-for-a-fleeting-moment

tomotsugu.bandcamp.com

CREDITS

All sounds produced by Tomotsugu Nakamura.

Recorded between March 2024 and April 2024

Mastered by Taylor Deupree

Artwork by Simone Kappeler

Design by SprflxgrfzmTM

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