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Fukuoka​/​Osaka

by Jason Kahn/Tim Olive

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Fukuoka 17:30
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Osaka 16:43

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Kahn (American, living in Zurich) and Olive (Canadian, living in Japan) recorded these pieces while on tour in Japan in May 2014. This release features two unhurried explorations for radio, synthesizer, and mixing board (Kahn) and magnetic pickups (Olive). “Fukuoka,” presents a series of gradual unfurlings; pockets of pockmarked, dented and torn glass clusters, tumbling upon and over each other, perhaps briefly interlocking by way of some fragile barb, only to instantaneously break loose. “Osaka” is more comfortably structured, framed by a few small squalls abetting the range of synth and radio static; an instrumentation that resides between thin layers of shifting, jittery translucent timbres.

Kahn and Olive both demonstrate exceptional attention to unrecognized sounds (see Kahn's ongoing Unheard Cities project), and one of the unique attributes of these pieces is their ability to make sounds whose sources, even with limited tools, aren't quite placeable. Their sound palette occasionally finds tension between understood words and speech as sound: hearing a sound that may or may not be speech, and speech that may or may not be understandable. They possess a unique resourcefulness on this release that makes it a surprising listen.

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released September 9, 2015

Jason Kahn - analogue synthesizer, radio, mixing board, mixing, mastering
Tim Olive - magnetic pickups

Fukuoka recorded May 18th, 2014 at Art Space Tetra
Osaka recorded May 15th, 2014 at Common Cafe

Mixed and mastered by Jason Kahn

Artwork, layout - E. Lindorff-Ellery
Printed by Fitzgerald Letterpress

Reviews:
Frans de Waard / Vital Weekly
www.vitalweekly.net/1000.html
Paul Margee / We Need No Swords
weneednoswords.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/jason-kahn-tim-olive-fukuoka-osaka/
Guillaume Belhomme / Le Son du Grisli
grisli.canalblog.com/archives/2015/11/19/32952603.html
Lucas Schleicher /Dusted Magazine
dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/133597567286/dust-vol-1-no-6-11202015
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Notice Recordings Kingston, New York

Notice Recordings started in Chicago in 2009. We are now based in Kingston, NY, and Columbia, MO. We release experimental and contemporary sound works. Notice Recordings is run by Evan Lindorff-Ellery (NY) and Travis Bird (MO).

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