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reviews: there have obviously been some contribution on this release by some alien or so it seems. sounds seem to come from a distant future and played on an old radio. some would describe it as an abstract and somehow distorted second world war bombing alarm. especially on the second track 'vacillate' which spreads a nearly inaudible wave which gently pokes through your ears and transports you to a nearly comatose state. then comes metallic water-like clicks drowned under an ambient noise layer that wakes you from your dream. finally it ends beautifully with a 7 minutes ambient electronica with repetitive piano tunes that pulls you to a dream-like serenity.by yassine maaroufi @ sothzine usually there is some information at the website of -n with their releases, but not so in masaya sasaki's case. just a few words, more like poetic statements and that's it. there is however another difference too. up until now most of the -n releases worked around some form of rhythm, either dub, techno or some such, but sasaki plays a different tune. the first two tracks are sine wave like pieces, moving slowly around in circles. a bit like alvin lucier would do. great pieces actually. then comes the title piece, which also a sine wave but one that is hovering somewhere at the lower end of the spectrum, but there is a bunch of rhythmic particles floating around it. sampled sine waves chopped up in to small bits. the final piece is 'motion 8', and that sort of break the release. a much clearer keyboard piece with a straight 4/4 rhythm. it perhaps works nice as a counter piece, but for me it breaks the austerity of the first three pieces and as far as i'm concerned it could have been not on there. otherwise thumbs up! by frans de waard @ vital weekly masaya sasaki's picnic plan ep is the eight release so far for this netlabel, and it brings on the type of sparse, heavily experimental electronic soundscape music you might expect. the ep starts with "meron," which pits a fennesz-like electronic blip clatter underneath a restlessly seething dialtone. "vacillate," which follows, throws us a curveball because it's an entirely different sonic texture - where spasmodic inconsistency was the case in the first piece, chiming, relatively constant tone is on tap here. "panic_plan" then hits us with a brooding, vibrating base followed by ambience and gradually increasing noise. beautifully melodic "motion8" closes the disc out in more familiar territory, with a discernible rhythm and mesmerizing tunefulness making it the most accessible and instantly likable piece of music on here. picnic plan is an excellent experimental electronic ep; it's likely the most immediately enjoyable record of its kind i've come across since fennesz's endless summer. and best of all: for the price of nothing, it can be yours. get your ass down to the -n website and hear what you've been missing; i'm not urging you, i'm giving you an order. matt shimmer @ indieville comments: Après son excellente partition sur la compilation mn01, Masaya Sasaki confirme avec ce EP aussi rapidement indispensable, que ne le sont certaines références de ce brillant NetLabel, gage de haute qualité - merci Minusn posted by Thierry - 2006.01.14 Nice Work... posted by Phobos - 2006.01.24 I think this release really flows very nicely. It starts off as very minimal with Meron and Vacillate. Picnic Plan introduces a more steady rhythmic bed and Motion8 feels like it finishes the progression from soundscape textures to a "musical" piece involving rhythm and chord changes. What I esspecially love about the album is the slow progression that makes a fairly minimal piece (motion8) sound very full and developed. I feel like the album changes my perspective of time listening, it slows my brain down to match the slow-paced opening then brings it back to reality. Thanks for the release! posted by Wes - 2006.02.11 post a comment: |
[mn008] masaya sasaki - picnic plan ep
 2006 qwartz awards nominated release01. meron (03:58) - download this mp3 (192k, 5.49mb) 02. vacillate (07:02) - download this mp3 (192k, 9.68mb) 03. panic_plan (06:40) - download this mp3 (192k, 9.17mb) 04. motion8 (07:24) - download this mp3 (192k, 10.1mb) download the whole release (zip, 34.5mb) download the cover art (double-page) (jpeg, 577kb) download the cover art (for web) (jpeg, 19.0kb) panic (picnic) plan by masaya sasaki (translation by kengo miyazaki) what we do is always wrong, and when we realize it, it's usually already gone far and beyond our control. from the fragments of the faded daily life, from the 'broken pieces,' we try to play backwards the daily life to the starting point, but the result is always monstrously distorted and unstable. i'm always thinking of visionary sounds, sounds of some imaginary creatures or simply new sounds. they still haven't come to me yet. at the moment, i'm like a cloud in the right yet unstable form transforming into something else before long. |
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