SEACIDE, by Hiiragi Fukuda

SEACIDE

by Hiiragi Fukuda

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romeo_sierra_charlie I always like to image how great an independent short film would be shot around and based on all the tracks on this release. I can see the various scenes in my mind, but the clarity is not so easily viewed in focus. Favorite track: Seashells.

VaticanShotglass I've been a fan of the man's previous work for a while and absolutely love this album. By the sound of it you are never quite sure where the synth and guitar start and stop with this grinding, driving grooves. It maybe all one or the other. It doesn't matter. While wonderfully mechanical, this album is not without the artist's unique sense of feel. I really dig it.

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	1.	316L 10:39
	2.	Trochos 07:47
	3.	Sharpener 08:25
	4.	Seashells 15:59
	5.	Breeze 11:36

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Label: Trouble In Mind – TIM086LP
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Country: USA & Canada
Released: Mar 30, 2015

Hiiragi Fukuda | Guitar, Synth, Rhythm Box

www.discogs.com/release/6845976-Hiiragi-Fukuda-Seacide

"Hiiragi Fukuda turned a lot of “heads” with his 2013 album “My Turntable Is Slow” - released on NY label Selection Records. For many outside of his hometown of Tokyo, Japan it was their first introduction to the guitarist & experimental musician. TiM hopes to carry his name into 2015 with the release of “Seacide” - Fukuda’s first foray into synthesizer music.

Orginally released as a criminally limited cassette on Sloow Tapes, “Seacide” is entirely instrumental & improvised, with Side A (the “synth” side) executed on a Yamaha monophonic synth, it’s hypnotic drones & pulses echoing out of his practice amplifier and carving out sonic territory akin to NY pioneers Suicide as well as UK Industrial godfathers Throbbing Gristle. ‘Trochos’s metallic heartbeat radiates a meditative spirituality while the back & forth sway of “Sharpener” conjures up images of 8-bit generated waves cascading over a computer-coded sea side. Side B (the “guitar side”) features Fukuda’s stratocaster, with opener “Seashells” easing out a fragile, mechanical lullaby, while album closer “Breeze” features more of Fukuda’s soulful finger-picking atop a jaunty bossa beat. The album was recorded in just two days by Fukuda himself in his Tokyo bedroom, with a Boss DD-6 (as a Loop machine - it can record only 5.2 seconds) & captured sonically by a Sony TCM-400 onto a cheap cassette tape (made in indonesia).

This edition of “Seacide” comes pressed onto black vinyl & includes a download code. The album is also released on CD & available via the digital format."
www.troubleinmindrecs.com/hiiragi-fukuda-seacide/

"Hiiragi Fukuda nails it again. ‘Seacide’ starts off with some trippy and fucked-up synth mayhem and ends up with long spaced-out guitar soloing on top of endless drumloop boogie."
sloowtapes.blogspot.be/2014/01/hiiragi-fukuda.html

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