12 Conversations

The V.I.R.U.S. series is likely the most played set of recordings in my design studio; 12 conversations marks the end of one of the most important sound, space, melodic, exploratory and musical collaborations of all time. It’s not for everyone — many of Alva Noto’s disruptions, deconstructions and sonic assemblies are often as far from Sakomoto’s piano melodies as one can travel, but therein lies the beauty. These…studies (one hesitates to call them songs) that began in 2002 with Vrioon end here with Sakomotosan’s passing. This final recording is just as rewarding as their first: otherworldly, meditative, difficult, inspiring, aleatoric, spare, inventive, important. This album is beamed to us from the future, 2036, a Tokyo/Berlin hybrid a that could only happen once and has no set or group it can be placed in.

Ditto.

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