Release Notes
Label: Dragon’s Eye Recordings
Release: Sen no Tsudoi
Date: November 15th
Mastered By: NAKAMURA Hiroyuki
Los Angeles-based label Dragon’s Eye Recordings continues to delight with an exquisite curation of sounds ranging from minimal to experimental and ambient music. Its impressive output spans not only music genres but also geographical locations and media, as is evident with this exclusive video premiere by a Japanese pianist, composer, and electronic musician, NAKAMURA Hiroyuki. His latest post-orchestral album, titled Sen no Tsudoi, employs the compositional aesthetic, interleaving European and Asian systems of tonal, percussive, and atmospheric treatments, rising and falling into peripheral aural fields, gathering into focus and then dissolving again. Besides his complex sonic palette, NAKAMURA has ventured into a visual art form, creating complex CGI videos to accompany his sound and thus enhancing his message in a complex, constantly moving kaleidoscopic experience. Today, I’m sharing a piece titled “Voices in the Void” from the upcoming album Sen no Tsudoi, which has something slightly familiar and something slightly magic in these times of daily angst.
In an era marked by various conflicts, what can music do? As an Asian artist, the more I delve into the history of contemporary Europe, the more I am struck by the depth of its issues, leaving me often at a loss for words. Simultaneously, Asia continues to grapple with enduring challenges such as poverty. Is the only expression music can offer the acknowledgment of our own powerlessness? I believe that art has the ability to document, reinterpret history, and continually redefine it. Countless sounds resonate across time and culture.
— Hiroyuki Nakamura
The full album, Sen no Tsudoi, will be out tomorrow, November 15th, 2024, via Dragon’s Eye Recordings, available on all of your favourite digital platforms and, of course, Bandcamp.
