HUTA (LEE MINHYUK) | ar

Much like the bamboo plants that dominate Japan’s landscape, Shuta Hasunuma (蓮沼執太)’s piano work on his new album OK Bamboo has an enduring, simple elegance. OK Bamboo’s title and compositions are the result of Hasunuma’s interest in the ancient relationship between Japan and bamboo. As he explains, “In Japan, bamboo is revered as a plant sharing properties of both wood and grass. It also has an enduring and remarkable strength. After bombings in times of war, when all of the people are killed and the buildings destroyed, often the bamboo plants are all that’s left standing.” Each track flits and...

Günter Reznicek is Nova Huta. A unique character: he, his Casio keyboard and what he defines as "datschadelic music". All in one. A showman and at the same time a sonorous investigator. Creator of unstoppable, magnificent and subversive songs that could be defined as gum-robot-pop-disco-electro-dada and at the same time a musician with a long history in noisy experimentation and in the most radical electroacoustic. In order to understand this properly Hamburg's influences in Reznicek must be emphasised. Hamburg is a city which has an important concentration of the freakiest electronic music with a crazy micro-scene of pop retrofuturism and...

Released in 2005 as a 2-CD collection of Buddhist chants and folk music from the Monasteries of Bhutan, as the titles says. .