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Artist:	AKIYAMA, MITCHELL
Title:	Mort Aux Vaches
Label:	STAALPLAAT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	MAV 051CD

"Packaging comes in embossed copper (no printing). Akiyama's contribution to the 'Mort Aux Vaches' series is an unedited improvisation recorded for VPRO radio in April, 2004. Consisting of guitar washes and digital interruptions, the set was recorded without any use of samples or prepared material. In keeping with Akiyama's ethic of spontaneous composition this recording is a document of a moment. Akiyama's music is a study in fiction and texture. He records compositions and improvisations for piano, strings, and other instruments, and restructures them in his studio in a post-facto montage. Playing on the distortions in causality that recording technology can effect, Akiyama creates music that lays claim to a moment of creation that never happened. Imperfections -- fingers scraping strings, breaths and other signs of humanity -- are underscored resulting in a digital simulacrum of performance. Located somewhere in the interstices of classical, electronic composition and post-rock, his works vacillate between delicate melodies and confrontational bursts of noise."

Artist:	AKIYAMA, MITCHELL
Title:	If Night Is A Weed And Day Grows Less
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 209CD

"Recorded in Montréal, Canada, If Night Is A Weed And Day Grows Less, the 4th solo CD by Mitchell Akiyama, marks a more concerted return to Akiyama's classical roots. All eight pieces grew out of four piano compositions that were torn apart and reassembled -- fragments of one piece contaminating another -- reordered melodies, hidden references, obscured refrains. It is weeds fighting the hegemony of the lawn, it is the possibility of anarchy resulting in fleeting orders of beauty, it is the progeny of Steve Reich, Michel Foucault and Marcel Duchamp. The clear melodic beauty of Christian Fennesz but with a piano..."

Artist:	AKIYAMA, MITCHELL
Title:	Small Explosions That Are Yours To Keep
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 238CD

Best known for his electronic deconstructions of traditional instrumental music, Montreal-based Mitchell Akiyama's fourth and most ambitious solo recording is a sprawling work that bristles, burns and slouches with emotion. Small Explosions That Are Yours To Kee came into being at the twilight edges of composition and digital manipulation and sets billowing strings drifting around household gamelans while shimmering guitars drown in saxophone waves. Since his debut release on Alien8 Recordings, Hope That Lines Don't Cross (SR 209CD), Akiyama's music has been a study in fiction and texture. He records compositions and improvisations for piano, strings, and other instruments, and restructures them in his studio in a post-facto montage. Playing on the distortions in causality that recording technology can effect, Akiyama creates music that lays claim to a moment of creation that never happened. Located somewhere in the interstices of classical, electronic composition and post-rock, his works vacillate between delicate melodies and confrontational bursts of noise.

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