"and behind me is a mirror and in that mirror everything is amplified into eternity..."
Sometimes it is not just the chords that tell part of a song's story but the spaces in between them that might even shape the emotional sonic clay just as much. You feel this in large and small ways on "Make Me Me", the second single from "Everis" the latest album by Tokyo-born composer and producer aus (aka FLAU Records boss Yasuhiko Fukuzono). From the tactile beat pads, the deeply expressive piano notes, graces of orchestral sounds, drones of ambience, and what feels like fluttering transmissions from space, the disparate tones create a dream made of melancholy paper curling because of it's proximity to a flame. In this case the emotional burning is Grand Salvo's vocal countenance, forlorn, thoughtful and maybe yearning for an understanding of time and space and how we all move through it all, "at night the window is a mirror, the window holds me in it's frame..." and later sung in harmony" and behind me is a mirror and in that mirror everything is amplified into eternity in diminishing repeat..."
"Everis" might be Yasuhiko's most daring universe building to date because it wasn't made from whole cloth as much as tatters and threads. The back story relayed via press notes (as to not relay anything wrong) is vastly interesting:
[Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with only some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.
Fukuzono states: "In doing so, I wanted to show that lost memories exist everywhere, without themselves, and are connected to the present. Like a Ekaki Uta [a Japanese drawing song] I wanted to convey the image of a circle in which all memories overlap."]
Fukuzono states: "In doing so, I wanted to show that lost memories exist everywhere, without themselves, and are connected to the present. Like a Ekaki Uta [a Japanese drawing song] I wanted to convey the image of a circle in which all memories overlap."]
The overall impression of "Make Me Me" is, for me, one of memories shaped and reshaped by emotional context over time, never to exist in their original states.
Album "Everis" is set for release via London independent label Lo Recordings x FLAU on 26th April 2023.
Pre-Order/Info https://aus.lnk.to/Everis
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Encompassing ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk; ‘Everis’ is the new album by Tokyo-born composer and producer Yasuhiko Fukuzono aka aus.
Performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics, vibrations of everyday life are intertwined in the music with intimate field recordings, filmic strings and electronica running the gamut from gentle to muscular. The result is a cocktail of sound that illustrates lost memories, unforgotten events and footage from mental archives interpreted through audio. It's a glittering whirlwind of late-night jazz; etchings of love songs; and dedications to life, organically interlaced with the deft use of vintage equipment, slow-dripped through a filter of cosmopolitanism sensibilities.
Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.
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