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01. Ytamo - April
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02. Ytamo - はじまりはすべて The Start Is Everything
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03. Ytamo - Grasshopper
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04. Ytamo - どこかとおくへ Far Away From Here
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05. Ytamo - Mantis
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06. Ytamo - 2 Vacant Houses (feat. Takako Minekawa)
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07. Ytamo - ⼼⾳は蹄のように Heart Beat, Clatter Of Hoofs
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08. Ytamo - 5:30AM
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ARTIST
YTAMO
TITLE
Vacant
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
SOMEONE GOOD
CATALOG #
RMSG 021CD
RMSG 021CD
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
6/26/2020
Kansai based artist
Ytamo
returns to Someone Good with a record of deep introspection. Recorded across 2019, whilst she was pregnant with her first child, she produced this edition in soft focus. This is an album that resonates with an in-built nostalgia of recollection that is simultaneously actual and imagined. The songs reflect on her own experiences as a child, each piece building a bridge between the promise of parenthood and the hazy memories of her youngest years. Pairing back her instrumentation at times to the instrument she started her musical life with, the piano, this album showcases her capacity for cycling minimal movements, dynamic tonal ruptures and hypnotic interweaving harmony. Features
Takako Minekawa
.
From
Lawrence English
: "... Sometime in the early to mid-00s, I was on tour in Japan. I was playing at the now closed venue Bridge in Tennoji. It was one of my favorite venues in Japan, mostly as Tennoji still holds those secrets of Japan's 20th century history; the nocturnal, dreamlike sensibilities that reach out to us from beyond; much like,
Chris Marker
's
San Soleil
observes. During this concert, I was joined by an artist whose work I wasn't familiar with at that time, Ytamo. By the end of her set however I was completely spellbound by her unusual sense of harmony, minimal repetitious piano patterning and her ability to move between seemingly unrelated musical structures in ways that acoustically melted from one movement to another . . . A few years ago we released
MI WO
on Someone Good (2016), a milestone recording for her and one I did not think she could easily eclipse. With
Vacant
, however, she does just that.
Vacant
is a completely personal music. It contains the kinds of songs that tell of one person's experiences in a way that opens out towards all who encounter the work.
Vacant
plants seeds deep within the listener and these germinate at unexpected moments and with unpredictable results. Having lived with the record for the past half year, I can speak to this experience. 'Far Away From Here', one of the long-form pieces on the record has found its way bubbling up in my subconscious. The same can be said of 'Mantis', another piece with melodies that just fold into you, burying themselves with a gentle presence that radiates in time. I can't recommend Ytamo's music to you enough."
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