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Artist:	MASAKATSU, TAKAGI
Title:	Eating
Label:	KARAOKE KALK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KK 014CD

"All those many little pieces on eating -- one time bearing such seemingly abstruse names like 'Fausel' or 'Frousfre', then simply being called 'Spring' or 'Come March' -- can beautifully be subsumed under one heading: music for short films written by life itself. Short films, because all tracks have a fragmentary, unfinished air about them. The momentary, fleeting quality of the pieces stirs up an intense, acute emotion that one wishes to preserve after the song is over. Though which emotions are aroused, Takagi Masakatsu willingly -- and wilfully -- leaves up to us. Music written by life itself, because the feelings one experiences with eating are simple, natural, everyday. Without superfluous weight or sadness, celebrating the joy of the little things -- birds chirping in the morning, the sound of children playing in the street, the calm of night. Maybe it's exactly these moments, snapshots of life, that characterise Takagi Masakatsu's way of thinking. It wouldn't come as a surprise, since he's been working as a video artist for some time now and has often related his music directly to films or animated films of his that deal with everyday worlds of perception."

Artist:	MASAKATSU, TAKAGI
Title:	Eating 2
Label:	KARAOKE KALK (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	KK 021CD

"Masakatsu's second album appears on Karaoke Kalk, and its title Eating 2 is certainly more than coincidental. His new tracks pick up where Eating ended. Again, his music is very associative. It leaves room for the listener's imagination in the interpretation of the music and its potential messages. Masakatsu captures very different moods that always -- even when seeming gloomy -- resonate with a trace of cheerfulness. The sounds he uses are arranged in a similar way to the images in his installations: small scraps or longer sequences are put into new contexts. Melodies or recurring soundscapes hold all this together, making the individual tracks appear much more self-contained than those on Eating, and less fragmentary and dispersed. His music has become more compositional, in its pieces and as a whole. Eating 2 by Takagi Masakatsu conveys an intensity and at the same time an openness that are almost mesmerizing at times. And you are constantly under the impression you weren't listening to something new and unfamiliar but to something that has always been very close to you."

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