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OUTLOOK FESTIVAL 2018 JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY
開催日時：2018.8.10 (FRI/Before Holiday)
会場： clubasia + VUENOS (２Venue circuit ) , Tokyo  www.clubasia.jp
開催時間 : 21:00 OPEN
料金 : 前売 3,000円 / 当日 4,000円
clubasia : 東京都渋谷区円山町1-8 1F&2F
+ VUENOS : 東京都渋谷区道玄坂2-21-7 1F&B1F
TEL. 03-5458-2551

ベース・ミュージックとサウンドシステムの世界的祭典「OUTLOOK FESTIVAL」 の 「JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY」 
２０１８年８月１０日(金／祝前) 東京 渋谷 clubasia + VUENOSの周遊４フロアー!!!
ラインナップ発表！！

毎年９月にクロアチアの半島を貸し切って開催される世界最大のベース・ミュージックとサウンドシステム・カルチャーのフェスティバル『Outlook Festival』
ヨーロッパで数々のフェスティヴァル・アワードを受賞する超人気フェスで毎年5万人を超えるオーディエンスが世界各地からクロアチアの半島に集まり、ローマ時代のコロシアムや城塞の遺跡、ビーチ、船上パーティといったアドリア海に面した奇跡的なロケーションで行われる巨大イベントだ。 11周年を迎える今年も既に強烈なラインナップがアナウンスされており100都市近くのクラブ・パーティーと連携し世界中でワールドツアーとして開催されるローンチ・パーティの日本版が「OUTLOOK FESTIVAL JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY」である。中でも規模・クオリティ共に本場ヨーロッパまで噂が轟いているのが日本版ローンチ・パーティであり、日本を代表するベース・ミュージックのプレイヤーが集結しアジア最高峰のサウンドシステムでプレイする“アジア最強の都市型ベース・ミュージック・フェス"として世界中から注目を集めている。
さらに世界中で話題沸騰中の「レッドブル・カルチャークラッシュ」の日本版とも言える「OUTLOOK JAPAN SOUND CLASH」や コンテスト「ROAD TO OUTLOOK JAPAN」のファイナルラウンドも見どころであり各フロアに設置される日本屈指／最強のサウンドシステム、レーベル毎のショウケース等、普段のクラブ・イベントでは見れない企画で満載だ。2013～14年 AgeHa/Studio Coast、2015年 Sound Museum Vision、2016年には代官山 UNITビルを丸ごと使用した3フロアー、2017年より clubasia + VUENOS の2 Building 周遊 4 Floor ナイトタイムでの開催!!! 
 
サウンド システム カルチャーを牽引する世界屈指のSOUND SYSTEM『eastaudio SOUNDSYSTEM』 SOUNDSYSTEM AWARDS"Highest Sound Quality"2013年度受賞。
サウンドスラッガーやOUTLOOK JAPAN LAUNCHでその実力は実証済みの『MAXTONE HI-FI 』 BACK TO CHILLに照準を合わせたサウンドシステムとして洗練された重低音を再生するシステムとして鍛え上げられてきた『BROAD AXE SOUND SYSTEM』の 3 SOUND SYSTEM！！
 　そして JP出場権をかけたコンテスト「ROAD TO OUTLOOK JAPAN 2018」接戦となったセミファイナルを制した『savo』『kaito komori』『Nishiura』の３組がこの日、当日「FINAL ROUND」現場で決戦！！　
そして『OUTLOOK JAPAN SOUND CLASH』 今年の出場者は『#_O_M_G_』TOKYO等でも活躍する 関西HipHop界の最重要人物 DJ GEORGEと盟友MC MOGGYYによる『NEW KID'N PLAY』！！　北海道 函館シティーMUTANT RAGGA『MDS CREW』のドン SHORT-ARROWと九州福岡を代表するREGGAE DEEJAY NINETY-Uのコンビ『SHORT-ARROW & NINETY-U』！！　  TOKYO GRIMEシーンの中心、UKDとSintaからなる『Double Clapperz』が満を持して参戦！！ 今年はどんなダブが乱れ飛ぶのか！？　どんなゲストアクトがステージに登場するのか！？　ジャンル枠を越えた猛者が集う異種格闘技戦！意地とプライドを賭けた音の戦い！
全てが見逃せない夜がまたやってくる！！


:: FULL LINE UP ::
JONNY DUB (LEVELZ) from UK
PART2STYLE SOUND 
KURANAKA1945
TREKKIE TRAX CREW
PK Brako from UK
CRZKNY
RED-I from MANILA
D.J.Fulltono
食品まつり a.k.a FOODMAN
ShioriyBradshaw
DJ WILDPARTY

 ※ 以下 A to Z
Amps
CHANGSIE
FELINE
HELKTRAM & CITY1 from Back to Chill 
iSOP
Ja-ge George
K8
KEN & SATOSHI from HANGOVER
Madkosmos
maidable 
MIDNIGHT ROCK
NATURAL VYBZ
ONJUICY
SAKO
STGM
SYNDROME & MC STONE
Tribal Connection
VIBES MAFIA
Vibes Only Crew
And more!!!

[ OUTLOOK JAPAN SOUND CLASH ]
NEW KID'N PLAY (DJ GEORGE & MC MOGGYY) 
vs
Double Clapperz
vs
SHORT-ARROW & NINETY-U
and Guest Acts

[ ROAD TO OUTLOOK JAPAN 2018 FINAL ROUND ]
savo from SHURISQUAD 
vs 
kaito komori 
vs 
Nishiura

:: SOUND SYSTEM ::
eastaudio SOUNDSYSTEM
MAXTONE Hi-Fi
BROAD AXE SOUND SYSTEM

:: FOOD ::
新宿ドゥースラー

 >>> https://outlookfestival.jp/lineup



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[ OUTLOOK JAPAN SOUND CLASH ]
NEW KID'N PLAY (DJ GEORGE & MC MOGGYY) 
vs
Double Clapperz
vs
SHORT-ARROW & NINETY-U
and Guest Acts

>>> https://outlookfestival.jp/soundclash

「Red Bull Culture Clash」の日本版ともいえる『OUTLOOK.JP SOUND CLASH』 日本を代表するベース・ミュージックの代表格３組が激突するあの熱い戦いが今年も繰り広げられる！一点モノのオリジナル・キルチューン（ダブ・プレート）をプレイしあう音楽の戦争、サウンドクラッシュ！ 

 今年の出場者は『#_O_M_G_』TOKYO等でも活躍する 関西HipHop界の最重要人物 DJ GEORGEと盟友MC MOGGYYによる『NEW KID'N PLAY』！！ 北海道 函館シティーMUTANT RAGGA『MDS CREW』のドン SHORT-ARROWと九州福岡を代表するREGGAE DEEJAY NINETY-Uのコンビ！！  TOKYO GRIMEシーンの中心、UKDとSintaからなるグライムプロデューサー・デュオ『Double Clapperz』が満を持して参戦！！ 今年はどんなダブが乱れ飛ぶのか！？どんなゲストアクトがステージに登場するのか！？ジャンル枠を越えた猛者が集う異種格闘技戦 全てが見逃せない夜がまたやってくる！！

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毎年恒例 OUTLOOK_JPの出演権を賭けたDJコンテスト
[ ROAD TO OUTLOOK JP 2018 FINAL ROUND ]
savo fr.SHURISQUAD vs kaito komori vs Nishiura

毎年ジャンルの壁を越えた猛者が集う異種格闘技コンテスト『ROAD TO OUTLOOK JP』 昨年のファイナリストは、首都圏／関西の実力者、ニューカマーらを抑え、 札幌、福岡 地方都市の Bass Music系パーティーでプレーする豊富な現場経験を持つDJらが勝ち上がり、 初の本祭現場での決戦をダブ・プレートを駆使した NoB が勝利! 過去のチャンピオンには、大阪のPaperkraft、Drum and Bass Producer/DJのDJ MASA、福岡在住iSOP、Back to Chill等で活動するYuittyらが名を連ねる。 本年度もセミファイナルを勝ち抜いた3組による 8/10 OUTLOOK JP 当日現場でファイナルジャッジ！！！ 

最終投票結果（いいね！の数）
1位　savo fr.SHURISQUAD - 405票
2位　kaito komori - 370票
3位　Nishiura - 340票

すべての応募者、投票していただいた皆様にRespect!!
上記3組が8月10日(金/祝前)OUTLOOK JP 当日現場で開催されるファイナルに進出します！
次はファイナルの会場で皆さんのジャッジをお待ちしております！！

>>> https://outlookfestival.jp/contest

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e+(イープラス)、clubberia、iFLYER及び販売協力店にて一般前売（3,000yen）発売中！
 >>> https://outlookfestival.jp/ticket

e+（イープラス） : https://eplus.jp
clubberia : https://clubberia.com/ja/events/278268-OUTLOOK-FESTIVAL-JAPAN-LAUNCH-PARTY/
iFLYER : https://iflyer.tv/ja/event/301989
新宿ドゥースラー : 03-3356-5674  https://duusraa.com
Dub Store Record Mart : 03-3364-5251  https://www.reggaerecord.com
DISC SHOP ZERO : 090-7412-5357  https://www.discshopzero.com
虎子食堂 : 03-6416-1197 https://toranoko-shokudo.com
Hi Fashion Records :  https://reggae-store.com
disk union 渋谷 CLUB MUSIC SHOP : 03-3476-2627  https://diskunion.net/shop/ct/shibuya_club
disk union 下北沢 CLUB MUSIC SHOP : 03-5738-2971  https://diskunion.net/shop/ct/shimokitazawa_club
disk union 吉祥寺店 : 0422-20-8062  https://diskunion.net/shop/ct/shinjuku_club
disk union 新宿 CLUB MUSIC SHOP : 03-5919-2422  https://diskunion.net/shop/ct/shinjuku_club

※20歳未満の方のご入場はお断りさせて頂いております。写真付き身分証をご持参ください。
※YOU MUST BE 20 AND OVER WITH PHOTO ID.
※ご来場の際にエントランスにて別途ドリンク代(￥600)をいただきます。
※TICKET FEE IS EXCEPT 1 DRINK (600YEN) CHARGE.
※2会場の移動にはご入場時にお渡しするリストバンドが必要となります。再発行はできません。紛失や取り外しの場合は無効となりますのでご注意ください。
※TO COME AND GO 2 VENUES, YOU NEED WRISTBAND. NO REISSUANCE. THANK YOU.

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Outlook Festival 2017 JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY PHOTO HIGHLIGHT 公開！
>>> https://outlookfestival.jp/photogallery

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Outlook Festival 2017 Highlights
>> https://youtu.be/PWSYi6vQRxg

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[ WHAT IS OUTLOOK? ]
OUTLOOK FESTIVALとは？　毎年9月にクロアチアで開催される世界最大の“ベース・ミュージックとサウンドシステム・カルチャー”のフェスティバルである。UKではフェスティバル・アワードなどを受賞する人気フェスで、オーディエンスが世界各地から集まり、400組以上のアクトが登場。このフェスのローンチ・パーティは、世界各国100都市近くのクラブ／パーティと連携して開催され、その中でも本場UKまで噂が轟いているのが、日本でのOUTLOOK FESTIVAL JAPAN LAUNCH PARTYである。 

OUTLOOK FESTIVAL JAPAN LAUNCH PARTYは 日本を代表するベース・ミュージックのプレイヤーが集結し、アジア最高峰のサウンドシステムでプレイする、いわばアジア最強のベース・ミュージックの祭典である。さらに世界中で話題沸騰中の「Red Bull Culture Clash」の日本版ともいえる「OUTLOOK.JP SOUNDCLASH」も見どころのひとつであり、他のクラブ・イベントでは見れない企画が満載。

05–09 September 2018
Fort Punta Christo, Pula, Croatia
https://www.outlookfestival.com/

Every year in September, Outlook brings together 12,000 music lovers from around the world to enjoy the best sound system culture has to offer in one of the most surreal locations ever imagined for a festival.
Set in an abandoned 19th-century fort nestled over the Adriatic sea, with daytime beach sessions and countless boat parties, Outlook is a perfect combination of a quality music festival and a holiday, soaking up the Croatian sunshine.
Revealed in January, the line-up consistently brings together the finest purveyors of drum & bass, hip-hop, garage, grime, dubstep, dub, reggae, house, techno and electronica to play on some of the best sound systems in the world.
See you at the fort...

 OUTLOOK FESTIVAL's launch parties are held as a world tour cooperated with more than 90 clubs in 5 continents. Among them, our launch party in Japan a.k.a OUTLOOK_JP is even getting known in UK because of its scale and quality.


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[ youtube.. ]
Outlook Festival 2016 JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY HIGHLIGHTS
https://www.facebook.com/outlookfestival.japanlaunch/videos/1350137001729809/


OUTLOOK Festival 2014 JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY 
HIGHLIGHTS "SOUND CLASH/JUNGLE CLASH"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pzxynPr6KY

OUTLOOK Japan 2014 Aftermovie [BLOCKFM EDITION]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj0dQvBCq4M

Outlook Festival 2013 JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY HIGHLIGHTS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZM6502gJSs

Outlook Festival 2017 Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWSYi6vQRxg

Outlook Festival 2016 Highlights
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x51ftvy_outlook-festival-2016-highlights_music

Outlook Festival 2015 Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uIL-AHVgsU

Outlook Festival 2014 Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4D0hV4Twy4

Outlook Festival 2013 Highlights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbw10OXVN8


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★OUTLOOK FESTIVAL 2018 JAPAN LAUNCH PARTY WEBサイト → https://outlookfestival.jp
★OFFICIAL FACEBOOK PAGE → https://www.facebook.com/outlookfestival.japanlaunch
★OFFICIAL TWITTER → https://twitter.com/outlookfes_jp 
★OUTLOOK FESTIVAL WEBサイト → https://www.outlookfestival.com
★ZETTAI-MU WEBサイト → https://www.zettai-mu.net ／ https://twitter.com/zettai_mu ／ https://www.facebook.com/zettaimu.jp
★PART2STYLE WEBサイト → https://www.facebook.com/PART2STYLE ／ https://twitter.com/Part2styleSound
★clubasia WEBサイト →  https://www.clubasia.jp
★VUENOS WEBサイト →  https://vuenos.com

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うー、午前3時間の試合は生活のリズムが狂いますなー。しかし、泣いても笑っても今週までです。
で、ロシアといえば、じつは今週から来週にかけて、モスクワをベースに活動しているプロデューサー／DJ／演奏家／ヴォーカリスト、ケイト・シロノソヴァによるソロ・プロジェクトKate NVが単独としては初の来日ツアーをしています。

2016年に〈Orange Milk Records〉からリリースしたファースト・アルバム『BINASU』がシンセ・ポップ傑作として各所で絶賛され、その類い稀なるセンスは現代エクスペリメンタル・ミュージック・シーンの最先鋭レーベル、 〈RVNG Intl.〉の目にとまり、契約を果たし、ぐっとミニマルなエレクトロニック～アンビエント・ミュージックへアプローチしたセカンド・アルバム『для FOR』を6月に発売予定。さらにはAngel Deradoorianとの共作でも注目を集める中、絶好のタイミングでの来日となります。

今回の来日公演では、シンセポップ的な『BINASU』セット、ミニマル〜アンビエント寄りの『RVNG』セットの両方を披露する予定です。是非ご来場ください。


https://www.artuniongroup.co.jp/plancha/top/news/kate-nv-japan-tour-2018/





PLANCHA 10th Anniversary Vol.2

KATE NV JAPAN TOUR 2018

7/16(月・祝): 大阪 @SOCORE FACTORY (BINASU / RVNG mix set)
7/19(木): 東京 @KATA (RVNG set)
7/20(金): 東京 @KATA (BINASU set)
7/21(土): 新潟 @木揚場教会 (BINASU / RVNG mix set)



 

大阪公演
Kate NV Japan Tour 2018
Osaka Supported by POW




日程：2018年7月16日(月・祝)
時間：開演/16:00
会場：大阪 @SOCORE FACTORY [https://socorefactory.com]
料金：前売2,500円(1ドリンク込) / 当日3,000円(1ドリンク込)

LIVE：
Kate NV [BINASU / RVNG mix set]
テンテンコ
CVN

DJ：
BIOMAN
souj
miharu
POW (zico, BABY)

※チケット予約は『POW 前売り予約フォーム』からご予約が出来ます
【https://goo.gl/forms/TN3VpYTumsyQHTU42】
お名前、メールアドレス、枚数をご記入のうえ送信ボタンを押してください。

主催：POW
https://popowpowpow.tumblr.com/


 

東京公演①
Kate NV Japan Tour 2018
Tokyo Day 1 [RVNG set]



日程：2018年7月19日(木)
時間：開場 19:00 / 開演 19:30
会場：恵比寿 @KATA [https://kata-gallery.net/]
料金：前売3,000円(別途1ドリンク代) / 当日3,500円(別途1ドリンク代)
(Day 2にもご来場の方は500円のキャッシュバック）

LIVE：
Kate NV [RVNG set]
dip in the pool (Special Guest)
角銅真実

DJ：
Shhhhh

主催：PLANCHA


 

東京公演②
Kate NV Japan Tour 2018
Tokyo Day 2 [BINASU set]



日程：2018年7月20日(金)
時間：開場 19:00 / 開演 19:30
会場：恵比寿 @KATA [https://kata-gallery.net/]
料金：前売3,000円(別途1ドリンク代) / 当日3,500円(別途1ドリンク代)
(Day 1にもご来場の方は500円のキャッシュバック）

LIVE：
Kate NV [BINASU set]
Aya Gloomy
emamouse

DJ：
青野賢一（BEAMS RECORDS)


主催：PLANCHA


 

新潟公演

experimental room #28
Kate NV Japan Tour 2018
Niigata



日程：2018年7月21日（土）
時間：開場 17:00 / 開演 17:30
会場：木揚場教会（新潟市中央区礎町通上一ノ町1957／TEL 025-229-1870)
料金：前売 3000円／当日3500円／県外2500円／18才以下無料

LIVE:
Kate NV [BINASU / RVNG mix set]
NYANTORA
LIVING ROOM

DJ:
IXALODS

SHOP:
OOHATA COFFEE

◯前売券メール予約ご希望の方は件名を
「7/21チケット予約」としてinfo@experimentalrooms.comまでご氏名・枚数をお送り下さい。

主催：experimental rooms
https://www.experimentalrooms.com
info@experimentalrooms.com

 


KATE NV：
ロシアはモスクワをベースに活動しているプロデューサー／DJ／演奏家／ヴォーカリスト、ケイト・シロノソヴァによるソロ・プロジェクト。元々はSonic YouthやDinosaur Jr.などに影響を受けたオルタナティヴ・ロック〜ポストパンク・バンド、Glintshakeのヴォーカルとして活動。また、同時に20世紀のクラシカルなミュージシャン達とCornelius Cardewのアイデアとアヴァンギャルドなコンポーズを再構築するMoscow Scratch Orchestraのメンバーでもある。それらと平行してソロとしてNVを始動させ、2014年にジャパニーズ・ポップスやニュージャックスウィング、90’s R&Bなどの影響を感じさせるEP『Pink Jungle』を発表し注目を集め、同年、Red Bull Music Academy Tokyoで初来日を果たす。2016年に待望のソロ・デビュー・フル・アルバム『Binasu』を2016年にGiant ClawとSeth Graham主宰の重要レーベル、Orange Milkからファースト・アルバム『BINASU』をリリース。各所で絶賛され、世界各国をライヴで飛び回る。その才能はエクスペリメンタル・ミュージック・シーンの最先鋭レーベルであるブリルックリンのRVNG Intl.の目にとまり、契約を果たし、同レーベルからセカンド・アルバム『для FOR』のリリースが決定した。

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Artist: Kate NV
Title: для FOR
Cat#: ARTPL-104
Format: CD / Digital

※解説：館脇悠介
※日本のみでCD化
※ボーナス・トラック：食品まつり a.k.a foodman Remix収録

Release Date: 2018.06.15 ※日本先行発売
Price(CD): 2,000 yen + 税

ロシアはモスクワをベースに活動する才女Kate Shilonosova（ケイト・シロノソヴァ）によるソロ・プロジェクトが名義をNVからKate NVに変更し、エクスペリメンタル・ミュージック・シーンの最先鋭レーベルであるブリルックリンのRVNG Intl.に移籍しての新作『для FOR』を完成。

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Artist: NV
Title: Binasu
Cat#: ARTPL-081
Format: CD
解説: Dirty Dirt
※歌詞・対訳付き
※日本のみでCD化
※ボーナス・トラック2曲収録

Release Date: 2016.11.02 ※タワーレコード先行(10/19)発売
Price(CD): 1,900 yen + 税

ロシア発！ポストGrimes的シンセポップ超新星NVが遂に日本デビュー！
ボーナス・トラックにDeradoorianとの共演曲「Konicchiwaa (ft. Deradoorian)」収録！

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大阪公演出演者

 


テンテンコ：

1990年8月27日生まれ。北海道出身。身長142cm。 2013年BiSに加入し、2014年の解散とともにフリーランスとして活動を始める。 2016年にTOY’S FACTORY / MIYA TERRACEとマネージメント契約。 「90年代からの日本の”インディー霊”を全て背負っているといっても過言ではない、ヴァリエーションに富んだアヴァンギャルド表現者」と人は彼女を評し、オーバーグランドとアンダーグランドを自由に行き来し、朝から真夜中まで型にはまらない聖域なき活動を行っている。

WEB : https://tentenko.com
Twitter : https://twitter.com/tentenko_ooo?lang=ja
Blog : https://tentenko142.blogspot.com

 


CVN：

Grey Matter Archives主宰

Orange Milk, Where To Now?, Angoisse, CNDMM, Solitude Solutionsなどから作品をリリース

https://greymatterarchives.club/
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/cvntrack

 


BIOMAN：

奈良県出身、大阪市在住。DJ、デザイナー、イラストレーター。音楽関係を中心にデザイン及びアートワークを多数手掛ける。DJではアートプログラムからクラブイベントまで幅広い分野に出演。DJ集団、風工房’98の一員でもある。所属する“青春ビザールディスコバンド”neco眠るではシンセサイザーを担当、2014年に発売された2ndアルバム『BOY』ではメインコンポーザー及びジャケットデザイン・ディレクションを務める。2015年にはイラストレーターの沖真秀との二人展「赤ちあん」を開催。

BIOMAN info : https://bio-man.net
Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/bio_man
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bio.man.37

 


souj：

dark jinja主宰

Soundcloud : https://soundcloud.com/user-656605415

 


miharu：

京都市在住20歳。幼少期より音楽に親しむ。高校生の時に作った和モノセレクト集「和モノ high school mellow」や「日本メロウ大学」がネットレーベルAno(t)raksより配信。現在は「Light Mellow West」「木菟燈籠」「City」等に出演し、関西を中心に活動している。

Twitter : https://twitter.com/rinpa1120 

 

東京公演①出演者

 


dip in the pool:

1983年に作/編曲を担当する木村達司（track）と、作詞担当の甲田益也子（vo）が結成したデュオ。独特の音楽センスとファッショナブルなヴィジュアルが話題を呼び、86年にイギリスはROUGH TRADEよりデビュー。国内では86年MOON RECORD（現在はワーナーミュージック内のレーベル）よりデビューアルバムをリリース。過去にレコーディング参加したミュージシャンは、佐久間正英、清水靖晃,、窪田晴男、富家哲、トニー・レヴィン、ミノ・シネル、モーガン・フィッシャー、ピーター・シェラー（アンビシャス・ラバーズ）、といった個性豊かな実力者ばかりであった。
マイペースな活動と並行して、甲田益也子が89年に映画『ファンシイダンス』で役者としてもデビューし、映画『白痴』では主演をつとめた。木村達司は他アーティストのプローデュース、アレンジやCM、映画音楽制作等、個々の活動も多彩に展開している。
一時期の活動休止を経て2011年に本格的に再始動、14年ぶりになるアルバム「brown eyes」をリリース。
2013年には木村達司がモーガン・フィッシャー、安田寿之と共にアンビエント・エレクトロニカ・アルバム「Portmanteau」をリリース。甲田益也子がゲストボーカルとして4曲参加している。
2015年1月に伊藤ゴロー、古川初穂らをゲストに迎えた10枚目のアルバム『HIGHWIRE WALKER』をリリース。
2016年にアムステルダムに本拠を置き世界中に多くのファンを擁する復刻レコード専門レーベルMusic From Memoryから89年に発表した「On Retinae」が12 inch・シングルとしてリイシューされ世界的に再評価される。
2017年にはアメリカのアンビエント・デュオVisible Cloaksからの依頼を受けシングルを共作リリースし、来日イベントでは共演も果たしている。
2018年６月には初のオーストラリア・ツアーを行う。

https://dipinthepool.com

 
photo by Tatsuya Hirota
角銅真実：

音楽家 打楽器奏者
マリンバをはじめとする色々な打楽器、自身の声、身の回りの気になるあらゆるものを用いて、インスタレーションやアートプロジェクトでの制作、ダンスや映像作品、CMへの楽曲提供、制作など作家としての自由な表現活動を国内外で展開中。
2017年Basic functionより初のソロアルバム”時間の上に夢が飛んでいる”を発表。ドラマーの石若駿のEP”Song book1,2”ともに歌詞と歌唱で参加。
また、2016年よりバンドceroのパーカッション・コーラスでのライブサポートやアルバム制作に関わるほか、
2018年ポーランド ワルシャワ のKrolikarnia 美術館で展示されたインスタレーション形式の映画、Square/Karolina Bregla の音楽を担当した。

https://manamikakudo.wordpress.com/
https://twitter.com/kakudouma

 


Shhhhh  (El Folclore Paradox)：

DJ/東京出身。オリジナルなワールドミュージック/伝統伝承の発掘活動。フロアでは民族音楽から最新の電子音楽全般を操るフリースタイル・グルーヴを発明。
13年に発表したオフィシャルミックスCD、『EL FOLCLORE PARADOX』のコンセプトを発展させた同名レーベルを2017年から始動し、南米からNicola Cruz、DJ Spaniolらを招聘。ブラジルのパーティ/アートコレクティブ集団、VoodoohopのコンピレーションLP『Voodoohop Entropia 1.5』のプロデュースなど。
dublab.jpのレギュラーや、オトナとコドモのニュー・サマー・キャンプ”NU VILLAGE”のオーガナイズチーム。
ライナーノーツ、ディスクレビューなど執筆活動やジャンルを跨いだ海外アーティストとの共演や招聘活動のサポート。
全国各地のカルト野外パーティー/奇祭からフェス。はたまた町の酒場で幅広く活動中。

https://soundcloud.com/shhhhhsunhouse
https://twitter.com/shhhhhsunhouse
https://www.facebook.com/kanekosunhouse

 

東京公演②出演者

 


Aya Gloomy：

Aya Gloomy（アヤ・グルーミー）1994年生まれ、 東京都出身。 高校生の頃から曲を作り始め、 作詞作曲アートワーク全て自身で行っている。

2017年2月、 初のデビューEP『Ennui Ground』を原宿のレコード・レーベル BIG LOVE Records の新レーベル「STBO Records」からリリースした。

2018年4月25日にファースト・アルバム『陸の孤島/RIKU NO KOTŌ』を発売。

https://twitter.com/aya_gloomy
https://soundcloud.com/ayagloomy

 


emamouse：

現代アート的電波アイドル風ハードコア調シンガー・トラックメイカー。
現実逃避で没入したゲームの世界（仮想空間）を、仮装することで現実世界とアイデンティファイしている。
つまり皮膚という設定のマスクを被って2015年よりLIVE活動を開始。自身をモチーフとしたイラストレーションや、実際には無いゲームのサウンドトラックを制作。
Psalmus Diuersae、Visual Disturbances、Gauss PDF等のレーベルから音源をリリース。
2018年、NZのトラックメイカーyeongrakの曲をRemixしたアルバムをQuantum Nativesからリリース。同作にてTiny Mix TapesのEUREKAを獲得。

https://emamouse.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/emamouse

 


青野賢一（BEAMS RECORDS)：

個人のソフト力を主に社外のクライアント・ワークに生かす「ビームス創造研究所」に所属するクリエイティブディレクター。音楽部門〈ビームス レコーズ〉のディレクターも務める。また、ファッション、音楽、映画、美術、食といった文化全般を横断的に論ずる文筆家としても活躍。『CREA』（文藝春秋）、『ミセス』（文化出版局）などに連載を持つ。DJとしては1987年より活動開始。現在のクラブでのレギュラーイベントは山崎真央、ANGELYUKA（水原佑果）、最高の夏と行っている「SUNDAY DISCO SESSION 日曜日が待ち遠しい！」（青山zero）。

https://twitter.com/kenichi_aono

 
 
 

新潟出演者

 


Nyantora：

ナカコーのアンビエント・プロジェクト「Nyantora」。ナカコーの中で最長キャリアのプロジェクト。2001年、「９９－００」（2001年5月9日）をリリース。その後、「COSMOS」（2003年4月2日）、「夜を忘れなさい/97-03」（2006年1月27日）、「この作品はフェードインフェードアウトで構成されています 音があらわれては消えるその繰り返しただそれだけ」 （2009年12月1日）、「White EP」（2011年5月18日）、「duenn feat. Nyantora」（2012年1月12日）をリリース。そして、完全受注版「High Strangeness」（2013年10月30日）をリリースした。コンスタントにリリースをしていたものの、特にライブ活動はなかった。しかし、2014年6月にプライベートでも親交のあるduenn氏のイベントより、待望のライブ活動をスタートさせた。長きにわたり多種多様な音楽を作リ出すナカコーの、音響に精通した世界観が遂に体感できるようになった。FUJI ROCK、RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL、OTO TO TABIなどのフェスや、トリエンナーレ、更にはロック・アーティストとの対バンまで幅広く出演している。また、Nyantora+duennのライブ音源が日本人としては、前人未到のベルギーのエクスペリメンタル・レーベル『Entr’acte』からリリースされるなど、海外でも評価がひろがり始めている。そして2018年6月20日Nyantoraとしては、7年振りとなる全国流通版のCD「マイオリルヒト」を発売する。

KOJI NAKAMURA
KOJI NAKAMURA soundcloud
MELTINTO (JP label)
SLOWDOWN (JP label)
ENTR’ACTE (BE label)
DUENN (JP label)
NOON (JP label)
SUPAERCAR
LAMA

 


Living Room：

Tatsuya Saitoによるソロプロジェクト。主に現行のエレクトロニックミュージックに影響を受け、2015年より活動。ジャパンレーベル「Solitude Solutions」のコンピレーションアルバムに参加。DJとしても活動。

LIVING ROOM soundcloud
SOLITUDE SOLUTIONS (JP label)

 


Ixalods：

国内外の先鋭的なアーティストを招聘し、アート・エキシビションやクラブ・イベントなどを行うイベント・プロジェクト、red race riot!を主宰し、またDJとしても活動するjacob（ヤコブ）と、電子音響＋映像ユニットのmikkyozとしての展示やパフォーマンス、またソロとしてもライヴやDJを行うle（レ）のふたりによるDJユニット。

RED RACE RIOT!
MIKKYOZ

Interview with JACOB
Interview with MIKKYOZ

　いわゆる「ワールド・ミュージック」に分類される音源がリリースされる際、しばしば「辺境」という言葉が用いられるけれど、それはつまり自分たちは「辺境」ではない、自分たちは「中央」である、という意識の表れとも言える（西洋から見れば日本だってある意味「辺境」なわけだけど、日本のアーティストの新譜が出たときに「辺境」サウンドなんて紹介のしかたはしない）。「辺境」だから良いんじゃなくて、その音楽それ自体が良いんだと、そういうふうに紹介していきたいものである。
　ともあれ、昨年のコゥ・シン・ムーンやキンク・ゴングなど、まずはサウンドありきで良質な発掘を続けているフランスのレーベル〈アクフォン〉から、またもや強烈なタイトルが送り届けられた。今回は60年代～70年代のスリランカの大衆歌謡にフォーカスした2枚組コンピレーションで、アフロとアジアが交錯する収録曲もたいへんエキサイティングなんだけれど、ブックレットの解説もおもしろい。たとえばアフリカ系ディアスポラの影響下で生まれた「バイラ」を、エドゥアール・グリッサンの「クレオール」と関連づけて紹介したりしている。日本語訳のついた国内流通盤がおすすめです。

　昨年RDCで来日したパームス・トラックス、あるいはヴェニスのスティーヴ・マーフィやブダペストのルート・8（ジョージリー・シルヴェスター・ホルヴァート）などのリリースで知られる〈ロブスター・テルミン〉、最近〈ブレインフィーダー〉からのリリースで話題を集めているロス・フロム・フレンズの12インチもここから出ていましたけれども、ロンドンのこの奇特なレーベルが設立5周年を迎え、現在ヨーロッパや北米でショウケース・ツアーを展開しております。そしてこのたび、そのアジア版がソウルおよび東京・大阪でも開催されることが決定しました。レーベル主宰者のジミー・アスキスと、看板アーティストのルート・8が来日します。アンダーグラウンド・ダンス・ミュージックの熱い息吹に触れられるこの絶好の機会を逃すまじ。

　先日８年ぶりとなるヘッドライン来日公演を終え、変わらぬ反骨精神を見せつけてくれたオウテカですが、彼らが４月にNTSラジオで披露したロング・セットがCD、ヴァイナル、デジタルの３フォーマットにてリリースされることが決まりました……のですが、ええっと、ちょっと待ってくださいね。彼らのセットは２時間×４日の計８時間あったわけだから……なんと、CDに換算すると８枚組です（絶句）。前々作『Exai』が２枚組の大作で、前作『elseq 1–5』が５枚組相当の超大作で、今回は８枚組……どんどん膨張しております。でもこれ、内容はかなり良いです。これまでのオウテカとこれからのオウテカがみっちり詰まっています。発売日は８月24日。ぼく？　もちろん買いますよ。

Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble Find Me Finding You Drag City Amazon

　Initially emerging as a curiously conceptial bubblegum pop tangent from the shoegaze scene, Stereolab throughout their career embodied a series of tensions – between accessible and experimental, complex and grindingly simple, personal and political. Their music was never purely bubblegum: it had to be John Cage Bubblegum, it was never purely avant-garde: it had to be Avant-Garde AOR.
Stereolab’s roots lie in guitarist/main songwriter Tim Gane and lead vocalist/lyricist Laetitia Sadier’s time with jangly indiepop band McCarthy, with whom Stereolab shared similary explicit leftwing politics.
However, where McCarthy’s lyrics were typically sarcastic dissections of the absurdities of contemporary political life, Stereolab’s politics tended to be more reflective and even romantic, revelling in their own uncertainty, feeling out the relationship between self and society with less confidence and more innocent curiosity.
Their early records were infused with a gushing enthusiasm for the motorik rhythms of Neu!, which they then filled out with organ drones, and it’s probably fair to say that, along with Julian Cope, Stereolab were in large part responsible for the UK music scene’s rediscovery of Krautrock in the 1990s. However, from around 1994’s Mars Audiac Quintet, and more explicitly on 1996’s Emperor Tomato Ketchup, the band’s sonic palette broadened considerably, incorporating influences from ‘60s film soundtracks, French pop, jazz and a more sophisticated use of electronic elements.
Through all these mutations, the group’s unique and instantly recognisable sonic identity was Laetitia Sadier’s vocals, which simultaneously embodied a cool detachment and an unaffected romanticism. Sadier’s vocal foil for much of the ’90s was keyboard player Mary Hansen, and the interplay between the two singers helped to define the group up until Hanson's death in a road accident in 2002. Their combination of deadpan delivery and breezy “ba-ba-ba”s reflected a broader dynamic within the band’s music between pop’s desire to give you everything all at once and an avant-garde wariness of making things too easy.
From the start, Stereolab infuriated the UK music press with cryptic song titles and obscure puns alongside what seemed like a contrarian insistence that what they were doing was pop. And it was pop in the sense that, at its heart, Stereolab’s music was generally simple and melodic, drawing on familiar chords and rhythms – the song Transona Five was built around the instantly recognisable beat of Canned Heat’s On The Road Again, for example.
It also reflected a punkish rejection of the grownup world and a love of childish thrills. It’s there explicitly in song titles like We’re Not Adult Orientated, but also in the dadaist delight in nonsense that led to them describing the tracks on Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements with gnomic nuggets of hi-fi wisdom like “subjective white noise” and sci-fi surrealism like “underwater aztec”.
In some ways, Stereolab were like a precociously smart teenager experiencing first love: so keen for you to like them, but always holding something back; complicating every simple expression of their feelings, but also underscoring every attempt to be cool and aloof with something disarmingly honest.
In the end though, perhaps the band themselves were always their own best reviewers, so it may be best to leave the last words to them:
“Constantly evolving, curious / Sombre, obscure, dark and luminous / Vitriolic, stringent, prophetic.”

Yeah, and I think that’s the beauty of pop: that it is this simple, conservative structure that lends itself perfectly to being disturbed and disrupted.

IAN:
Since this issue of the magazine is focused on avant-pop, I’m interested in how you feel about that term. With me, I find that I use it a lot without ever really thinking about what it means. It’s certainly a term that has often been used to describe Stereolab, but was it a term you ever felt comfortable with?

LAETITIA:
Well, as you know, artists don’t like to be pigeonholed in any way, so no term would suit. But if I were to choose one, this would actually be quite legitimate, because there were strong pop references in our music, and it was our structure for a lot of what we were doing. And there was an immense liberty between a verse and a chorus, where Tim might want to try out some ideas, so there would be these “avant” ideas perhaps between parts four and seven of track three on the album. That’s how I understand the “avant” in “avant-pop” – it’s taking liberties and being free to explore inbetween a rather simple structure, without our music being “avant-garde” strictly speaking.

IAN:
It also seems to me that the term “avant-pop” embodies a contradiction. There’s something fundamentally conservative about pop, in that it’s music that wants you to feel comfortable in how you already are, whereas the avant-garde is about taking you out of your comfort zone.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, and I think that’s the beauty of pop: that it is this simple, conservative structure that lends itself perfectly to being disturbed and disrupted. I think The Beach Boys were masters of hiding an incredible amount of complexity and even darkness beneath something that on the surface is so shiny and friendly – when inside it’s just plain weird! So in that regard pop can be very subversive and can be a danger to society! (Laughs)

IAN:
You mention about the the importance of simplicity, and I remember reading something that Tim said about how a lot of the simplicity and minimalism of early Stereolab was dictated to a large degree by your own limitations as musicians.

LAETITIA:
Yeah. Indeed, you have what you have, and you have to work with that. In a sense it’s more liberating to accept the physical limitations. It’s much more hindering to have too many possibilities and have to narrow it down rather than have a much more narrow terrain to work with and think, “How do we exploit this bit of land here and how do we extract the gems?” There was a fair amount of limitations because we were not schooled musicians. But the aim wasn’t to be virtuosos, and I guess that’s also part of the pop thing. You don’t have to be a virtuoso: you just explore your capabilities within the context of being a normal human being, not some supreme creature touched by the hand of God! It was more punk: do the best with what you’ve got.

IAN:
Within punk, there seemed to be a lot of affection – sometimes a little ironic and sometimes more sincere – for the bubblegum extremes of pop music. The Sex Pistols covering The Monkees etc., despite them not seeming ideologically compatible on the face of it.

LAETITIA:
But they were! I don’t know if I can make the class system step in, but I will! It was about the working classes taking power, exercising their self-determination, so that’s very important and very dangerous. You know, The Who and The Kinks were probably seen with an air of suspicion by the authorities because they had an incredible amount of sway with the youth. They were a bit threatening, and of course so were the punks. And the punks made a point of saying, “I didn’t go to school for this, and I’m going to make it as simple and direct as I can to show that anybody can do this!”

That’s what I find so appealing in that sort of pop, is that it was very political. Not political with a big “P” but it was about people taking matters into their own hands through their art. That’s how I educated myself politically: it was through music, not through reading Karl Marx.

IAN:
Yeah. When Stereolab started, one of their most audible influences was Krautrock, which was a music with its own kind of simplicity. But Krautrock also embodied this thing that wasn’t only a class thing but also this attempt to get away from the Anglo-American hegemony over rock music.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, and again there was a big element of self-determination and saying “Fuck you!” to the man. That’s what I find so appealing in that sort of pop, is that it was very political. Not political with a big “P” but it was about people taking matters into their own hands through their art. That’s how I educated myself politically: it was through music, not through reading Karl Marx – because it’s hard to read Karl Marx! And far less immediate than listening to a pop album.

IAN:
Of course, as your career progressed, you all became better musicians and so some of those limitations fell away. How did you keep in touch with that simplicity?

LAETITIA:
The watershed point would be “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”. That’s where it shifted to something more overtly complex. I didn’t write the music, so it’s difficult for me to answer this clearly, but as far as I know, each album stemmed from an idea, and it would imply some kind of restriction. One album was written entirely where none of the notes from the melodies appeared in the chord that was sustaining the melody – which I think is great. It brings about more tension. It wasn’t dissonant, but I think “tension” is the word that springs to mind, and that for me makes it an interesting song. Another example was “Margarine Eclipse”, which was essentially three albums, because we had one on the left speaker, one album on the right speaker, and then you had the sum of the two, which created the third album, so that was another sort of conceptual idea. There were often little tricks like that, which sustained entire albums.

IAN:
You’ve mentioned the idea of “tension”, and your work often has a kind of tension between music that on the face of it seems cheerful, happy, pleasant, and lyrical content that’s quite dark or angry. I’m thinking particularly of “Ping Pong” off “Mars Audiac Quintet”, where the lyrics about the cycles of economic downturn and war seem ever more relevant with the way the world seems to be heading now.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, absolutely. It’s difficult for me to say why I write certain things, but I know what you mean, especially with Stereolab, there was more darkness than originally suspected from a first glance. We were very serious about what we did. It was our way of making sense of our lives and of being autonomous. And of course I’ve always been very very sensitive to the way the world is going, and in fact since I was born it’s just getting worse. I always felt that we could organise ourselves a bit better, and I don’t mean a utopian society where everybody’s cool and the sun shines every morning – I just mean, “Hold on a minute: we can do this a little bit better so that it works out for more of us who are living on this planet.” And yet it seems that, “Oh, my God, we can’t!” The pathology has only gotten worse and deeper, at least on the surface. Because there’s a lot of good things as well that are happening, and people are getting organised in more silent ways – silent in the sense that you might not hear about it. People are going, “You can’t expect anything from governments: we’re going to have to do it ourselves!” and that I view as a good development: people taking matters into their own hands on a local level.

IAN:
Do you think there’s a parallel between what you’re describing there and the music scene? Something about the idea of organising independently of power structures?

LAETITIA:
I don’t know, because in my own experience, in my band, there were a lot of power structures actually. It wasn’t a democracy, in the sense that Tim monopolised the entire musical field and operated as a kind of “soft tyrant”. I mean, I had all the freedom lyrically speaking, but only because he couldn’t do it! (Laughs) So I don’t have an idealised view of being in the band. I’ve never been in a band where everyone wrote together. Even in my own band, I write almost everything. Sometimes on certain songs I give my bassist Xavi (Munoz) the chords and he writes a bass line, and then I have to write a melody on top of that, and it’s like, “Shit! He took all the melodic feel!” but it’s great because you have to dig deeper. So this thing about relinquishing control is probably difficult if you have a very strong artistic expectation, which I think Tim had. But also as a result I think our music was very reined in. It might seem crazy, but I’ve been listening to Stereolab’s old records recently, and they’re very repressed. But it’s really hard to let go and to let things flow, and I think that’s the reserve of some really, really great musicians where the’re totally on top of their instrument and go beyond.

IAN:
Do you think that having your creativity channeled narrowly into your lyrics and vocals influenced the way you make your own music?

LAETITIA:
Yeah, yeah, of course! And also what it forced me to do was start my own band, which was Monade, and I think Tim was very relieved! (Laughs) And, yeah, so that was a creative way around this issue, because I wanted to write my own songs, I had my own ideas, which are actually very similar to Stereolab, so I think I could have co-written much more with Tim. I’ve done seven albums now, and to my dismay I’m like, “This is still very influenced by Stereolab!” It’s really strange how each time I try to let go of that, I’m always face-to-face with that root, which I created. And I listen to what Tim is doing, and it’s still also... there’s no escaping it! It’s absolutely crazy! I don’t know, I could maybe write some reggae stuff to break it, but then it wouldn’t be me!

IAN:
But also one of the most powerful things music can do is that it creates a world. People fall in love with bands because they create worlds that they’re able to immerse themselves in and feel comfortable with. I wonder if the difficulty you describe in escaping Stereolab is a measure of how immersive the world you created was.

LAETITIA:
I don’t know. I find myself quite good at getting out of my comfort zone, at least when I compare myself to people I know. So I don’t know if what I’m looking for is something comfortable that I recognise, that I identify as safe. And particularly in the artistic field, where I feel that’s where you should be most free, and most adventurous. There’s no danger of hurting anyone because, as you say, it’s a world we create.

Yeah, and also coming from psychoanalysts themselves. It was always around “the problem came from your parents,” never from society.

IAN:
That comes back in a way to the “avant” side of avant-pop, right? The need to step out of your comfort zone, and also to take the listener out of their comfort zone.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, this is the duty! But maybe that’s where one can act and maybe not have that pretension of taking anyone out of their comfort zone, and simply do what comes best, and not be too complicated. I worked with Colin Newman recently, and his wife Malka Spigel who was in (Belgian postpunk band) Minimal Compact. I didn’t know that they worked with a looper where things had to be four and four and four and four, and so I was sending something which I found quite interesting and fun and not too complicated, and they totally rejected it! What they did was they took parts of the song and then they looped it. And it worked fine, but I realised that, compared to what they were sending me, it just gave me a glimpse of how complex I make things and how I could simplify it a lot. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it’s just an insight.

IAN:
A friend of mine once remarked to me that he thinks Stereolab must be the band whose lyrics contain the word “society” more than any other. And I was thinking how this idea of looking at the structure of the world in many ways goes against the rather individualistic world of pop or rock music.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, there’s a dichotomy between a world of egos and society. And I wanted Stereolab’s lyrical work to bridge the very intimate and personal and society; where does political start and where does it end? Because the way I saw it was let’s be as complete as we can, and for me being complete is talking about things that matter to me. Some people view pop music as a means to escape reality, so if you talk about mindless things, or if you “settle the accounts” with somebody, or express the world of feelings around a relationship. I do explore emotional stuff as well – that wasn’t excluded. It just seemed to me that let’s talk about important stuff, because there’s enough of it going on out there that we can discuss or at least question, because a lot of what I talked about in my lyrics were just questions for myself. Even the capitalist, the individualist, all this is stuff I could feel within myself. It was like, “No, I can be that monster too, and I’d like to interrogate that.”

IAN:
It seems that we’re often being encouraged by society to think very internally and to not really interrogate the relationship between ourselves and the outside world. In the song “The Well-Fed Point of View” by yours and Tim’s old band McCarthy, the lyrics tackle this quite directly.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, and also coming from psychoanalysts themselves. It was always around “the problem came from your parents,” never from society. And in fact, I got very interested in a guy called Cornelius Castoriadis. He wasn’t just a psychoanalyst, he was many things, but he was married to a very famous psychoanalyst (Piera Aulagnier) in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s in Paris, and they both were some of the first in the field to interrogate the impact of society on the human psyche. But it’s amazing to see that they were rare ones. Like, as if society did not impact your psyche, your unconscious, which I find extremely dubious! Of course it’s going to have an impact: everything has an impact on us: the architecture, the way the streets are laid out. It’s like if doctors are saying whatever you eat doesn’t impact your health: how can you say that?

IAN:
You mention architecture, but that’s true of music as well, right? The aesthetics, or the “internal architecture” of music also has an impact that goes beyond the lyrics.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, I think so. And the production of the song will say a lot. It’s a language.

IAN:
There seems to be an ease pop culture in Japan has in disconnecting the aesthetics from the content. But at the same time, maybe that’s impossible because the aesthetics have an impact of their own that is connected to the content.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, and I think there was enough happening aesthetically in our work that people would suspect that it had a revolutionary intent: that this wasn’t your regular pop group. And I think in Japan people were very savvy as well when it came to music. People knew their stuff! Not to mention that we called one of our albums “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”, which was named after a super-revolutionary Japanese movie.

IAN:
By Shuji Terayama, yeah.

LAETITIA:
I haven’t seen it! I haven’t read Marx and I haven’t seen “Emperor Tomato Ketchup”! (Laughs) Don’t tell them!

IAN:
It’s too late. It’s on tape! With the many collaborations you’ve been involved in, do you think that enriches your music?

LAETITIA:
Definitely. Like I said, it gets you out of your comfort zone, and it forces you to a sort of activity to be productive, because anything could make you go out of productivity: feeling a bit depressed or this or that or the other. It’s good to be kept in action. And stuff comes out that wouldn’t normally come out, so it’s very instrumental in keeping the creativity bubbling and active.

IAN:
Are there any particular projects that you’ve worked on with other people that stand out as being especially rewarding experiences for you?

LAETITIA:
When I worked with Jan and Andi (Mouse on Mars). It was so brilliant. We had a tour of Greece and Italy booked up and we had to come up with an hour’s worth of music, and it was the first time I was working like this outside of Stereolab. It was really difficult for me because I wasn’t confident that I could do this. I then learned that if I’m asked to do it, that means that I can do it! So that became my sort of motto. And yeah, somehow we did it and we had such a fun tour – it was such an adventure! But working with people, each time it’s a different adventure. I’m currently working with a Brazilian band called Mombojó, and we created a group together called Modern Cosmology – we made a video called “C’est le Vent”, “It’s the Wind”, which gives an idea of our collaboration. I can only see the positives of working with other people and “crossbreeding” (laughs) your creativity.

IAN:
So you made three albums with Monade, then three just under your own name, and then more recently one as Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble. It seems like there’s a period there where your identity is subsumed within this idea of a band, then three albums where you push your own individual identity to the foreground, and then finally this third stage where you’re trying to reconcile the collective and the individual. Would you say there’s something like that going on in the process?

LAETITIA:
Yeah, thank you for summing it up so beautifully! Yeah, it’s true that there’s time where you’re in the playground and you’re working out who the hell you are like, “This is me.” And then there are some times where you open it up and it’s like, “This is me in the world, this is me and my friends, and this is collective me.” And even when I was in my “this is me” period, Laetitia Sadier, I was still well aware that nothing that I do is just the product of solely me: it’s the product of many people’s involvement. And it seemed to me that it was an important point to make when I “Source Ensembled” Laetitia Sadier, because we’re told that “This is just you, and you and you and you alone!” and that’s wrong: that’s a lie. We are all connected here.

IAN:
Jumping back to Stereolab, I think it’s interesting that the band is in many ways a product of the 1990s and the age of CDs. For example, most Stereolab albums are far too long to fit onto a single piece of vinyl. But at the same time, they’re also albums that seem designed to be appreciated on vinyl.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, like any music that respects itself! (Laughs) It’s true. I have a turntable in my kitchen and a CD player, and I’m not attached to the object at all, and I would prefer to listen to CDs because you don’t need to worry about turning it over. But now I realise there’s something different about vinyl. I don’t know what it is, but it’s just more music-friendly.

IAN:
I think the way it forces you to constantly attend to it by turning it over every fifteen minutes encourages a different, more attentive sort of listening.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, it’s funny how this kind of alienation in fact gives you more connection with the record.

IAN:
Perhaps it goes back to the idea of tension again. In this case, rather than tension within the music, it’s tension between the listener and the medium itself that engages the listener. The other extreme would be Spotify or something, where you just put on a playlist while you’re cooking.

LAETITIA:
Yeah, you just consume it. I don’t have Spotify, but my son’s got it and it’s amazing though. Just say a band and there you have it. I think I’m going to have to get it, especially because I’m going to be on Spotify as of this month (April 2018). The Drag City catalogue is on all the streaming platforms, which it wasn’t before – Drag City have given in! It’s tricky but times are changing and people just have new ways of listening to music. There’s a lot of people out there – have you seen all this youth out there! (Laughs)

IAN:
OK, I guess before we finish, I should just ask if there’s anything more you’ve got coming up that you’d like to tell us about.

LAETITIA:
Well, really the main thing at the moment is my project with those Brazilian boys, Modern Cosmology. Apart from that, I’ll make it to Japan again maybe not this year but next year, one way or another.

　セイント・ヴィンセントの新しいミュージック・ヴィデオが最高である。昨年のアルバム収録曲“Slow Disco”のディスコ・ヴァージョン、その名も“Fast Slow Disco”に合わせて用意されたもので、ベア／レザー系のゲイ・クラブが舞台になっているのだが、裸の胸と尻をさらけ出したゲイたちの群れのなか、汗まみれのアニー・クラークが歌うというものだ（彼女はバイセクシュアルをカミングアウトしている）。派手なバッキング・ヴォーカルを入れたベタベタなゲイ・ディスコ・サウンドもかえって効果的だ。そこでわたしたちはHIV／エイズ以降の現在にあってなお、70年代のフリー・セックスの祝祭を再訪する。ディスコ・シーンが生み出した性の解放を、そこではダンス・ミュージックが大音量で鳴らされていたことを……。

　こうしたヴィデオが発表されるのは、世界的に6月は「プライド月間」であるからだ。49年前の1969年、6月28日に起きた〈ストーンウォールの反乱〉から半世紀が経とうとしているが、今年の6月も世界各地でLGBTQ+の権利やジェンダーの平等を掲げるプライド・パレードが開催された。はためくたくさんのレインボー・フラッグ。今年のNYプライドの写真をいくつか見ていると、かつての女子テニス界の女王であり現在のLGBTQ+運動のシンボルのひとりであるビリー・ジーン・キングが、現在の銃規制運動のアイコンでありバイセクシュアルをカミングアウトしている坊主頭の高校生エマ・ゴンザレスと並んで笑顔を見せているものに引きこまれた。歴史の積み重ねにより、世代を超えた共闘が清々しく実現されているからだ。
　そして音楽を愛するわたしたちは、その歴史のなかでたくさんの歌たちがあったことを知っている。70年代のディスコ、80年代のハウスやシンセ・ポップ、90年代のライオット・ガール、そして21世紀のじつに多種多様な音楽が、セクシュアル・マイノリティの自由を鳴らし、切り拓いてきた。音楽だからこそ感じられるジェンダーとセクシュアリティの多様性がそこにはある。もしあなたが「プライド」の意味を知りたければ、トム・ロビンソン・バンドの“Glad to Be Gay”を聴くといいだろう。アイデンティティ・ポリティクスにおけるもっとも重要な命題が、そこでは端的に提示されているからだ。
　あるいはまた、音楽は音楽であるがゆえに、「プライド」だけでは掬い取れないセクシュアル・マイノリティの感情や実存にも入りこんでいく。「イエスはホモ野郎が嫌いなんだよ」と父親に切々と説かれる様を描いたジョン・グラントの“Jesus Hate Faggots”、マフィアに性奴隷のような扱いを受けて非業の死を遂げたゲイ・ポルノ俳優の内面に入りこむディアハンターの“Helicopter”の凄み。アノーニの声はそれ自体の響きでもってジェンダー規範をゆうに超越してしまうし、自らを「ミュータント」と呼んだアルカは歌詞に頼らず電子音でクィアの官能を鳴らしてみせた。

　この企画を思いついたのは、まずは単純にプライド・マンスに便乗しようと思ったからなのだけれど、もうひとつ、ピッチフォークが先日発表した「過去50年のLGBTQ+プライドを定義する50曲」のリストがなかなかに興味深かったというのもある。こうしたリストを作るとき、たとえば自分ならついつい当事者性にこだわってしまうのだが、ピッチフォークのリストはミュージシャンの当事者／非当事者の線引きに関係なく……いや、SOGI（Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity の略。性的指向と性自認を示す）の区分に関係なくアイコニックな50曲を選出している。作り手がヘテロであってもゲイであっても、トランスであってもシスであっても、ゲイ／トランス／クィア・ソングは歌えるし、それに合わせて踊れると、こういうわけである。
　いまや大人気バンドであるザ・エックスエックスはシンガーふたりがゲイで、同性愛に限らないジェンダーレスなラヴ・ソングを歌っているが、こうした態度は非常に現代的だと感じる。最近ではジェンダーが流動的であるという「ジェンダー・フルイド（gender fluid）」や対象のジェンダーに関係なく性的願望を抱く「パンセクシュアル（全性愛）」なども認知され始めており、当事者／非当事者の線引きがますます難しくなっている。それはおそらく良い兆候で、更新されていく価値観に合わせて、音楽やそれにまつわる言説も柔軟に変化しているということなのだろう。

　そんなわけで、今回はSOGIの区分にこだわらず、ライター陣に自由な発想で私的に偏愛するゲイ／トランス／クィア・ソングを選んでもらった。正史にこだわったものではないが、そのぶん、じつに多彩なサウンド、多様な性のあり方が集ったと思う。楽しんでいただけたら幸いだ。
　「わたしの・俺の魂の一曲がないじゃないか」という方は、ぜひわたしたちにもあなたのお気に入りを教えてください。Happy Pride！　（木津毅）

※性的少数者の総称として、この記事ではLGBTQ+というタームを使っています。僕はフラットな意味で「セクシュアル・マイノリティ」と書くことが多いのですが、とくに欧米だと「マイノリティ」というと人種のことを先に連想しやすいということもあるそうで、現在ではLGBTQ+が適切な表現として採用されることが多いようです。

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Jim O'Rourke sleep like it’s winter NEWHERE MUSIC Amazon

Writing about a musician like Jim O’Rourke is always a challenge. His work is rarely what it seems to be on the surface, its mechanisms carefully concealed so that how it works on you as a listener is the result of an almost invisible creative process. A huge amount of complexity and musical intelligence underscores music that feels completely natural and even obvious, as if it’s always existed. If his creative approach includes a strong element of academic discipline, his finished music nonetheless has a lot of heart.
On O’Rourke’s previous relatively high-profile release, his unexpected 2015 return to something like rock songwriting with Simple Songs, instantly familiar-sounding rock hooks would merge imperceptably into completely unexpected musical territory without you ever noticing how you’d travelled. His latest album, Sleep Like It’s Winter, released from the new, ambient-focused NEWHERE label, sees him in a radically a different sonic landscape again, with an icy, uneasy, breathtakingly beautiful 45-minute instrumental track.
Between Simple Songs and Sleep Like It’s Winter lie twenty-two separate releases in O’Rourke’s Steamroom series, which he puts out at a rate of about one every couple of months from his Bandcamp page. While some of these releases are old tracks deemed worthy of exhuming from his archives, this rapid flow of releases may also include something for those of us hoping to find clues as to his working. Certainly some of the Steamroom releases that most immediately preceded Sleep Like It’s Winter share similarities.
None of them are quite as richly layered and textured though, and while ambient music is almost by definition music that defies analysis, working primarily on the fringes of consciousness, Sleep Like It’s Winter at the same time feels like a very conscious album, full of ideas and revealing something new on every listen.

I mean, most people would say Eno. Actually it would go back to Michael Nyman’s book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. It’s a great, important book that I read when I was in high school.

I：
I always find it a bit difficult to talk about music that often gets described as ambient or drone…

J：
Right, well, the fact that they even asked me to make an ambient record for them, that’s why I decided to take the challenge. I didn’t set out to make an ambient record but it’s sort of about making an ambient record more than it’s an ambient record (laughing) you know? Pretty much everything I do is about what it is as opposed to being it.

I：
You’ve said before something along the lines of that you approach making music in a way kind of like a critic.

J：
Yeah, I don’t make music ‘cause I enjoy it. (Laughs) Yeah, I have said something like that. I’m not comparing myself to him but when I was young I read this quote from Godard where he said, “The best way to critique a film is to make another film,” and that stuck with me since I luckily read that as a young boy. That’s fundamental to how I work.

I：
How long did this new album take?

J：
That took about two years.

I：
Were you still living in Tokyo when you started work on it?

J：
I was still in Tokyo, yes, when they first asked me. But there was also a lot of extraneous work around that time also because I was moving. So the first six months of working on it was probably more thinking than actually putting anything down. Just thinking about what the hell that term “ambient” meant, and it means different things to different generations. At the beginning, when they asked me, it was like “We’re starting an ambient label,” and I was like, “Okay…” (laughs) Just making any record in terms of “make a record in this genre” is anathema to me, but I decided to do it because it was such a revolting idea! (Laughs) Not that I dislike ambient music – I don’t mean that. That’s just not the way I think when I make things, so it was such a bizarre proposal that I decided to do it.

I：
For ambient music what is your first natural frame of reference?

J：
I mean, most people would say Eno. Actually it would go back to Michael Nyman’s book Experimental Music: Cage and Beyond. It’s a great, important book that I read when I was in high school. There’s a bit about Eno in there talking about, and (Eno) didn’t use the word “ambient” yet, he refers (Erik) Satie’s idea of “furniture music”. And it might be on the back of his Discreet Music record, which was a big deal for me when I was a kid, because on the back of the record it’s all just him talking about these ideas and there’s also diagrams of technically how he made the music. When I think of ambient music I don’t necessarily think of Eno because Eno’s actual ambient music, when he moved on, you know those “Ambient” records, I actually don’t like those very much – no disrespect to him, but it’s just not my cup of tea. In a way I like Satie’s definition of it more: that it’s “furniture music”, that it’s like BGM: it’s not something that’s meant to be listened to with the active mind, which implies that you’re not following the formal structure of what’s going on. So it’s a sort of shift of standpoint that means “ambient” to me. For me, in making this record, the most important thing was, “Where is a line where you decide to give up on formal structures completely?” and, “Where is a line where formal structures can still be perceived but they’re not being shouted at you?”

I：
Speaking of formal structures, going back to Eno, he often seems interested in the idea of taking the musician completely out of the music

J：
For me, in that way of thinking of music, which I’ve been moving towards my entire life slowly but surely (laughs), Roland Kayn was the biggest guy for me. Someone could call his music ambient but it’s way too aggressive for that. The idea of his music is you create the system and then you just let it go. The challenge is how can you create a system that still represents the ideas even though you’ve let it go. If you look at some of the last decade or so of Cage’s scores, like the number pieces, they create these systems. These later Number Pieces of his are really interesting because, if you do them correctly, they’re really constraining even though they don’t seem to be. Whereas someone like Kayn and what Brian Eno were doing, especially in the 70’s, they still want a result but they want to be hands off about it.

I：
For those of us listening to you, it’s almost like we get to hear you, well not in real time but now it almost feels like every couple of months there’s a new thing on Bandcamp

J：
Yeah, Bandcamp is one of the few things the internet has created that I really like. I do like that it’s just there for the fifty people who want it and nothing else gets attached to it. Everything that comes with releasing records, if I have nothing to do with it that’s the happiest I could possibly be. For me, you’ve got to understand, once it’s done it’s done: I’m already gone.

I：
Did your work on those releases inform your work on this new album?

J：
I think one or two might have been failed versions. (Laughs) I mean the Bandcamp stuff, honestly it’s for the 50 or 80 people out there who want to hear that stuff. It’s just being able to be, “Here, you guys want this: go ahead.” Not that I don’t put as much work into those things. For every Bandcamp work I put up, there’s like 80 failed Bandcamp things.

I：
In Sleep Like it’s Winter, there are a lot of sounds that are happening just on the edge of hearing, where it drops to near silence for a while before the sounds build back up again.

J：
Yeah, that’s true. A lot of my really early stuff in the late ’80’s, early ’90’s was a lot of that but I think, because I was young, I was still in the mode of imitating people. I was imitating silence (laughs) because there’s a lot of that, especially in (Giaconto) Scelsi’s music, which I was really really into when I was in college. And I really appreciated the amount of silence in a lot of Luc Ferrari’s work, which I was also really really into.
Also, at that time, things like the Hafler Trio, P-16 D4a, blah blah blah, but I don’t think I really understood how to use that until later in life. Because silence is just as much a part of the dynamic as something loud. In the act of actually listening to something, time means a lot and silence is also time because you perceive time differently in silence than time with sound. Hopefully, the use of silence stretches your perception of time – it’s the same thing as having a good drum fill or something.

Well, in terms of structure, the one thing that music can’t really do eloquently, like the other art forms, is deal with time backwards. Music can really only change time by making reference, and that can only be done if the music has a formal structure because you’re making structural reference or a melodic reference.

I：
So silence can be a function of the overall rhythm of the piece.

J：
Right, yes, exactly, yeah. Another thing I had to think about a lot when making this record is the idea that just because the music is “ambient” and doesn’t have percussion elements or whatever, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a rhythm. So, what role does rhythm take in this and how does it manifest itself is also something I had to think about a lot. And silence is part of that. Silence is kind of like an audio punctuation as well and it can be a comma or it can be a period. Or a semi-colon. Of course it matters what comes before and what comes after, but you really can hear the difference between a period and a comma. There’s definitely a moment of silence on this record that’s a comma and then there’s one that’s 3 periods in a row. At least that’s the way I think of it.

I：
Did you find, while making this record that there are cliches in ambient music?

J：
Oh, there definitely are. I kind of knew them before I started this because that’s mostly the reason I don’t listen to ambient music. I mean, pretty much all ambient music is major 7th chords, so harmony was going to be a big deal – how to approach harmony with this. Major 9th is also very popular: those are the two go-to harmonies in ambient music, if it isn’t just a perfect 5th. How to deal with harmony on this! I didn’t want it to just be about the overtones, because with the drone route really you’re dealing with overtones and not dealing with harmony – that was something I knew firsthand from doing it. In my memory, all the failed versions are sort of mixed up in it. Once I’ve finished the record, the only time I’ve heard it since mixing it is to check the mastering, so I kind of forget what happens in it. I learned a lot of what it wasn’t, but I don’t know if I learned what it is. I would rather find the next question than find the answer: that’s just the way I am. I mean, I don’t really believe in answers. A solution should lead to the next question.

I：
A bit like a filmmaker working in a genre, you have a choice: “Am I going to take this convention and play with it or am I going to confound this convention?”

J：
That’s a really apt comparison for me, because those kinds of filmmakers were a much bigger influence on me than music really was when I was young. I always wanted to be a filmmaker and then I found out how expensive it is and what kind of life you have to lead so that didn’t happen. Someone like Robert Aldrich or Richard Fleischer, these kinds of filmmakers were a really big deal for me because I loved watching them do all sorts of things despite being in this supposed cage of genre convention. William Friedkin is like a superhero to me: I love William Friedkin. To Live and Die in L.A., that film is amazing in what it does with genre conventions. I have a huge poster of it staring in my face right now. My way of thinking on that stuff really comes more from film than anything else. Just it really taught me a lot about approach.

I：
I wonder as well if, compared to pop music where the story is told in a very concise nugget, ambient music, where a single piece might be stretched over an entire album, works in a more cinematic rhythm.

J：
Well, in terms of structure, the one thing that music can’t really do eloquently, like the other art forms, is deal with time backwards. Music can really only change time by making reference, and that can only be done if the music has a formal structure because you’re making structural reference or a melodic reference. And that’s really only calling back, that’s not restructuring time. Kurosawa Kiyoshi, in the ‘90s, was the king of that. He deals with time in his films in the most extraordinary manner, especially Hebi no Michi (Serpent’s Path) and Kumo no Hitomi (Eyes of the Spider). The way he restructures everything you’ve seen with just an image, and your perception of time in everything you’ve seen can change from just an image. You can do that in all the visual arts, and obviously you can do that in writing, but music doesn’t have the tools to do that in such an eloquent manner. It’s really kind of clumsy. That’s something that’s always fascinated me since college, because when I was in college and studying all the Stockhausen and all that shit, that was the stuff I was really interested in. There’s this whole period of Stockhausen doing these “moment works”. I mean, the 60s and 70s was when all those guys were trying to address the problem of time in music, and the fact that they did is awesome, but it was really kinda hamfisted. It’s still a problem in music and that’s the thing I think about a lot, and film is the thing that reminds me of that constantly, more so than music does.

I：
You’ve mentioned before constantly creating roadblocks for yourself in the creation of your music.

J：
I don’t think I do that as much as I used to. When I was younger I think I needed to. I think now I sort of trip myself up naturally. I don’t even consciously do that: its just the way my brain works. I think when I was younger I had to do that. And also, when you’re younger, when you have no gear or anything, that’s a great thing, you know? Having too much gear is one of the worst things in the world. The more gear you have, the less you do. That’s a concrete restriction that you’ve got to think about, “I’m not even gonna touch any of that stuff”. There’s only three instruments on this record – no, four, sorry, if you count a short-wave radio as an instrument.

I：
Were you working with any collaborators on this record or is it all you?

J：
Yeah, it’s just me. There was one version that was going to have drums on it but it didn’t work. So there’s a hard-drive full of this stuff with drums on it that will rust away (laughs).

I：
You’re living in the countryside now. Since moving there has that impacted the way you work.

J：
I just get to work more. There’s not much distraction at all. It’s the closest to when I was in my early twenties, really. I mean, I wouldn’t sleep for days at a time: I’d really be in my room with my tape machine and just doing that non-stop. That’s not something I’d want to do now, but I can get to that frame of mind again, which is something I haven’t been able to do for a long long time.

I：
You produce a wide range of music under the name of “Jim O’Rourke”, but there’s often this sense, particularly in Japan, that “this is what this project is and this is what it sounds like”. I remember a friend of mine was playing a show and at the end the manager of the venue commented, “Yeah, that should be three different bands, what you played there”

J：
Yeah, that’s a very reductive way of thinking. I think it is more common here than anywhere else.

I：
You’ve spoken in the past that people have a hard time considering an artist’s work as a whole rather than each thing discretely.

J：
Right, I think that’s more common in music. I mean, you say “Hitchcock “ – people might mention a film or two as their favourites but they’re generally thinking “the work of Hitchcock”. But it is true in music; you would think of “the works of Morton Feldman” but that’s because that world of music does tie into that socio-political way of thinking. But in terms of popular music that really has more to do with commodity than a way of thinking, there really aren’t that many people who approach it that way. Whether you like him or not, Frank Zappa is someone who could be seen as an exception to that: people generally think of “the work of Frank Zappa”, although he was generally making records with a rock band. People think that way about someone like Bob Dylan. So there are exceptions, but in general there aren’t.

I：
Do you feel there are themes that keep coming back in your music?

J：
Oh God, yeah! (Laughs) It’s all the same thing. They’re all the same thing really. I mean, I think it’s something Picasso said or someone said it about Picasso: “You’re really just making the same painting over and over again.”

One silly example, I remember when I was younger, I would read Naked Lunch every year, and I noticed that every year I re-read it, I learned more about me than I did about the book. Because I saw more of how I had changed, in that time, than the book had changed. Because the book, of course, hadn’t changed at all: it’s always been there.

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I： What do you think links an album like Simple Songs to and album like Sleep Like it’s Winter or maybe Kafka’s Ibiki’s Nemutte?

J：
I guess I would say it’s that I made them. (Laughs) It sounds like a joke, but in a way I think that’s really kind of the best answer. Certain aspects of what I’m trying to do come out stronger on some things more than others. But they’re kind of all there on all of them.

I：
One thing that connects them, when I listen to them, is that I hear multiple layers to the way things transition on your records.

J：
I don’t know if you’ve heard this record I did called The Visitor.

I：
Yeah, I was listening to that today, actually.

J：
I mean, that’s probably the closest I’ve ever gotten. It still has lots of problems, but that’s the closest ever to sort of doing what I wish the music would do. And that’s really all about the transitions, really – the flipping and the flopping, as Kramer would say. I don’t think in the abstract about the transitions – I don’t think “OK, now I’m going to make this kind of transition,” – it’s not an abstract idea or an exercise, but that really is a big part of how I put things together. It’s like weaving a rug. I don’t know if that’s an apt analogy, but you don’t want the work put into the music to show. The best rug you ever saw, if you look at the way it’s put together, that work never overshadows the overall effect, hopefully. That’s the hardest thing, I think, in making music - to hide the work. You’ve gotta hide it. That’s really really important to me.

I：
Has that always been a key part of your approach?

J：
It’s always been there. I’m trying to think of where I learned that lesson, but I know I learned it very young. Definitely since like… it was like ’91, ’92 where I got out of the habit of highlighting the work more than what the work was supposed to produce.
That’s kind of part and parcel of how I work. A big percentage of the work is in hiding the work: it needs to live once you’ve killed it, you know what I mean? (Laughs)

I：
Part of the fun of listening to some of your recent records was that on multiple listens, it continues to fundamentally change.

J：
You’ve reminded me. I know I’ve said this before, but this was a big deal for me and it relates 100% to this. When I was in high school there was a movie theatre within like two hundred yards of our house and, because I would go there every day, they eventually just let me go in for free. So I was going there every day. And one day I was going there to go see a movie and my father said, “You saw that movie already, why are you going to see it?” and I remember saying to him, something to the effect of, “All of these people put like a year of their lives into making this movie. How arrogant would it be for me to think I could understand it all in two hours?” That was one of the things I really love about film: that good films didn’t have it all out there on the surface like somebody serving you a whatever course dinner. You had to dig in, and some things don’t work without that resonance, that’s very important, ‘cause time equals resonance, you know? One silly example, I remember when I was younger, I would read Naked Lunch every year, and I noticed that every year I re-read it, I learned more about me than I did about the book. Because I saw more of how I had changed, in that time, than the book had changed. Because the book, of course, hadn’t changed at all: it’s always been there. So that was also kind of a profound thing for me when I was a young ‘un.

I：
Perhaps there’s also this idea of having the space to find you way into something. It took me forever to get into Bowie because at first I thought it was “classic rock”, which just had so much baggage attached to it. But because there were so many entry-points into his work I eventually found one that worked for me.

J：
I can understand that. I had that a few years ago with Keith Jarrett. He was someone I knew I was supposed to like and I should have ‘cause I love ECM –70s ECM, the stuff I grew up on. And of course, he’s like a towering figure in that world and it took a long long time. It’s really only in the past two or three years that I finally cracked the code with him.

I：
I can understand that. I guess the point for me is that there wasn’t a single door. There were multiple doors in and I had to find mine.

J：
Right. Well I think there has to be like one initial door and when you open that door there’s all the other doors. Just like… (Laughs) I immediately thought of Genesis, sorry!

I：
You don’t have to apologize for Genesis!

J：
Oh, I will never apologise for Genesis! You’re never going to find a more hardcore Genesis fan than me – Peter era, of course. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is my favourite album of all time. But, you know, Genesis wasn’t embarrassing when I was growing up.

I：
Maybe “I will never apologise for Genesis!” is a good sentiment to end on. Thanks!

　DJミクが主宰する〈GLOBAL ARK〉が今年もある。場所は奥日光の、もっとも美しい湖のほとりだ。日本のダンス・カルチャー（とりわけワイルドなシーン）を切り開いていったリジェンド名DJたちが集結し、また、海外からも良いアーティストがやってくる。ローケーションもかなりよさげ。スマホが使えないエリアだっていうのがいい。〈GLOBAL ARK〉は、手作りの昔ながらのピュアな野外パーティだが、スタッフは百戦錬磨の人たちだし、屋台も多いし、宿泊施設もしっかりあるから、安心して楽しんで欲しい。気候の寒暖差にはくれぐれも気をつけてくれよ。

　北カルフォルニアのサウンド・プロデューサー、フレッド・ウェルトン・ワームスリーIIIによるデデキント・カット名義の新作『Tahoe』がリリースされた。リリースは老舗〈Kranky〉。近年これほどまでに身体に作用するアンビエント／ドローンは稀ではないか。
　『Tahoe』は〈Hospital Productions〉からリリースされた前作『$uccessor』から約2年ぶりのアルバム（EPとしては『American Zen』や『The Expanding Domain』などを発表）である。そのサウンドはまるでアンビエントな音響が脳内でサラウンド化するような感覚になってしまうほどに進化＝深化している。同時に現行のニューエイジ・リヴァイヴァルにも適応するかのごとき繊細な音のタペストリーも生成しており、聴き込んでいくにつれ意識が飛んでしまうような心地良さがある。

　そもそもドローン、ノイズ、インダストリアル、ニューエイジなど、いわゆる「2010年代以降のエクスペリメンタル・ミュージック（先端的な音楽）」は、20世紀後半以降の実験音楽やポスト・パンクの領域で応用された手法をクラブ・ミュージックの領域でリサイクルした同時代的なフォームだった。
　それはフレッド・ウェルトン・ワームスリーIIIにしても同様で、たとえばリー・バノン名義で〈Ninja Tune〉からリリースした『Alternate/Endings』（2013）などを聴けばわかるとおり、ドラムンベースを基調としたクラブ・ミュージックのアーティストであった。「あった」というのは、だがそのサウンドは先端的音楽の潮流の中で次第にクラブ・ミュージックの定型から逸脱しはじめたからである。とくに2015年に〈Ninja Tune〉からリー・バノン名義で発表した『Pattern Of Excel』あたりから、どこかJ.G.バラードの後期作品を思わせるような不穏なムードを称えたミュジーク・コンクレート／シネマティックなアンビエント・サウンドへと変貌していったのである。
　その最初の達成がドミニク・ファーナウ主宰〈Hospital Productions〉からリリースされたデデキント・カット名義の『$uccessor』（2016）だろう。ちなみに2016年はミュジーク・コンクレート的なサウンドにモードが完全に変化してきた時期である。例えば2016年リリースのジェシー・オズボーン・ランティエ『As The Low Hanging Fruit Vulnerabilities Are More Likely To Have Already Turned Up』などを思い出してみたい。
　そして、この『Tahoe』は「2016年的なミュジーク・コンクレート・サウンド」以降のアンビエンスをはやくも実現している。ここではノイズもドローンも「救済」のような質感を生んでいるのだ。本作と対比すべきアルバムは、やはり『As The Low Hanging Fruit Vulnerabilities Are More Likely To Have Already Turned Up』だろう。『As The Low Hanging Fruit Vulnerabilities Are More Likely To Have Already Turned Up』は、ノイズ系ミュジーク・コンクレートによる戦争／爆撃の果てにあるレクイエムのような音響音楽作品だったわけだが、『Tahoe』は、その世界のさらに果てにある安息の世界に鳴る音響音楽の讃美歌である。破滅の音像から救済のアンビエントへ？

　『Tahoe』には全8曲が収録されている。冒頭の1曲め“Equity”から2曲め“The Crossing Guard”、そしてアルバム・タイトル・トラックである3曲め“Tahoe”へと繋がる流れは水流のようにスムーズだ。この曲では不意にサウンドの中に水流のような音が紛れ込まされていることに気がつくはず。
　ちなみに「Tahoe＝タホ」とは「アメリカ合衆国のカリフォルニア州とネバダ州の州境にあるシエラネヴァダ山中の湖」の名のようで、同時に「この地に先住するワショー族のインディアンの言葉で大きな水（つまり湖）を意味する言葉らしい。つまりこのアルバムは「水」が主題となっているのだ（思い返せばフレッド・ウェルトン・ワームスリーIIIも北カリフォルニアの出身である。その意味で、自身の出自を神話的な音響で表現したアルバムといえるかもしれない）。すると、本作のアンビエンスが、どうしてこうまで心身に効く音響なのかわかってくる。「水」のアンビエンスが、人間の感覚に効くからではないか、と。
　アルバムは以降、ミストのようなアンビエンスと鳥の声などの環境音などがミックスされる“MMXIX”、クラシカルな旋律を響かせる“De-Civilization”、ドラマチックな“Spiral”、森の中のようなフィールド・レコデーィング・サウンドに不穏な持続音がレイヤーされ聴き手を別時間へと連れ去っていく長尺アンビエント／ドローン“Hollowearth”、アルバム終曲“Virtues”に至るまで、考え抜かれた構成で最後まで聴かせる。どうやらリリースが当初の予定からやや遅れたようだが、アルバム全編に横溢する凝りに凝った音響と構成を聴き込むにつれ、それも納得できるというものだ。

　このアルバムには神話的ともいえるアンビエンスが生成されている。同時に現代の世界・社会の変化によって生まれている人心のストレスを水の中に溶かしてしまうような音響が生まれてもいる。それはインターネットなどのメディアを通じて、あらゆる種類の音響・音楽が聴覚へと融解・浸透してくる現代的な感覚の生成にも近い。そう、この『Tahoe』には、破滅的なノイズ系・ミュージック・コンクレート「以降」の「安息／終局」の浸透的な音響が鳴り響いているように思える。
　なんという心身に染み入るようなアンビエントだろうか。この音響／音楽には10年代のエクスペリメンタル・ミュージックが行き着いた到達点のようなものを強く感じた。