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01. Afuma - Assisted Suicide
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02. Afuma - All For One
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03. Afuma - Sick In The Bed
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04. Afuma - Death Of A Seagull
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05. Afuma - Existential Blowfish
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06. Afuma - Suicide Alley
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ARTIST
AFUMA
TITLE
Songs From The Shore
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
BLANK FORMS
CATALOG #
BF 010LP
BF 010LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
1/17/2020
LP version. In Japanese folklore, Afuma indicates a time of day marked by spiritual or mysterious encounter. In Latin, one who inhales. Together as
Afuma
,
Stefan Tcherepnin
and
Taketo Shimada
breathe sepulchral energies into the brooding, cosmic fringes of guitar-based song vernacular. Tcherepnin's baritone and Shimada's lap steel guitar intertwine, smearing across world's-end horizons that propel Tcherepnin's ragged, foreboding vocal delivery and its lyrical portents of departure, of life's vessel unmoored onto a fathomless periphery. Shimada, a Tokyo-born musician and artist who has lived with
Herbert Huncke
and worked with
Henry Flynt
, also contributes Indian double-reed instrument shehnai to the band. And Stefan Tcherepnin, a contemporary artist and composer in fourth generation (continuing the family heritage of his great-grandfather
Nicholas
, grandfather
Alexander
, and father
Ivan Tcherepnin
), embellishes their dirge-scapes with electronics from the Sonica, a lute shaped version of the Serge synthesizer developed by his uncle. A family friend and student of
Maryanne Amacher
, Tcherepnin's piano playing alongside
Marianne Schroeder
's additionally graced Blank Forms Edition's publication of Amacher's
Petra
(BF 005CD/LP). Tcherepnin and Shimada are joined by drummer
David Silver
for
Songs From The Shore
, their debut LP, featuring artwork in the form of "A Rip In The Void", a newly commissioned painting by
Bobby Beausoleil
.
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