Minouragatake, by Takuji Naka/Tim Olive

Minouragatake

by Takuji Naka/Tim Olive

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TigerTorakio Ghostly experiments transmuting field recordings from actual spaces into some obscure parallel of the world we inhabit. It's not clear who or what lives there or even if they know we're here, but as I slip in and out of phase, I half expect to hear a voice clearly address me. Favorite track: Untitled B1.

plush87 Flickering lights, muffled phone calls, circuitry trickling across the walls. A face in the mirror for only a moment.

Perfect atmosphere attempted often, yet rarely achieved. Favorite track: Untitled A4.

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	1.	Untitled A1 04:56
	2.	Untitled A2 09:10
	3.	Untitled A3 07:50
	4.	Untitled A4 07:45
	5.	Untitled B1 14:18
	6.	Untitled B2 07:24
	7.	Untitled B3 06:41

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Olive and Naka's collaboration pairs two musicians working with lo-/mid-fi sonics and modified/self-made instruments. Through extensive recording and touring, the duo has honed a patient aesthetic, allowing each other's sounds to unfold with minimal, sure-footed interactions, akin to moving along a path up the mountain for which this release is titled. Naka's sources here consist mainly of "long loops of sagging/distressed cassette tape winding into and out of similarly distressed portable tape players, with real-time analog processing." Olive uses magnetic pickups and analog electronics. This leads to sounds of uncertain provenance, playfully emerging from a thick analog haze, building toward surprising, subtle crescendos. This is work that results from, and produces, an active semblance of stillness.

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released July 27, 2020

Takuji Naka - tapes, electronics
Tim Olive - magnetic pickups, electronics

Recorded in Kyoto, Japan, 2019

Mastered by Branic Howard, Portland OR
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Artwork by E. Lindorff-Ellery
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Letterpress printed by Small Fires Press, New Orleans
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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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