Release Date: March 13, 2013
Label: kaico
Slow Weather
is mesmerizing; a perfect combination of Brian Eno's lush textures and The Books' masterful sampling.
Tomotsugu
Nakamura spent 3 years crafting the subtle nature of this album. This
hard work can be heard from the start of the album. The opening track
“Moccasin” feels like waves of gentle warmth passing by. It's
abstract form and flowing nature creates an ethereal experience;
close your eyes and you could be floating. This album envelopes me in
a daze, as if fog had smothered my brain. While having a
distinctively digital sound these songs also sound uniquely tender
and comforting. Highlighted by tracks like “In The Place Before The
Breath” or “Contrail”.
Using
a combination of guitar, piano, strings, and gentle synthesizers
Nakamura brings the listener into his heavenly aural landscape. Not
only are traditional instruments used but glitches, clicks, pops, and
field recordings appear commonly throughout the album as well. Ambient synths wave hello and goodbye as they shyly appear and dissipate from track to track. Heavy reverb, backwards recordings, and glitchy sample placement create an airy atmosphere as sounds skitter across tracks.
“Little Colors” emphasizes this effect, combining droning strings
and synths with toy piano samples creating melodies out of these
separate samples.
At
some points it is quite hard to tell what's being played in real time
and what has been sampled and re-sampled. I couldn't be bother to let
the idea travel through my head for more than 5 seconds though. I
can't be bothered to think about much when listening to this album.
Slow Weather is as entrancing as it is awe-inspiring.
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