Name: UkabazUmorezU
Brand: Sugai Ken

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Catalogue number

RVNGNL049lp

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2017-10-20

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

716670165856

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Sugai Ken

Genre US

Electronic

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RVNG INTL.

Sugai Ken is a highly regarded artist in the electronic music scene, known for his unique blend of traditional Japanese sounds and experimental compositions. With a career spanning over a decade, Sugai Ken has established himself as an influential figure in the genre.

His music transports listeners to another world, combining field recordings, intricate percussion, and mesmerizing melodies. Drawing inspiration from nature and folklore, Sugai Ken creates immersive sonic landscapes that evoke a sense of tranquility and wonder.

With his distinct sound and innovative approach to production, Sugai Ken has garnered comparisons to artists such as Luix, Tauno Aints, Jaywar, Tarx, Erkki Hüva, Visible Cloaks, Cybe, H.Takahashi,and Estrada. His albums have received critical acclaim worldwide and continue to captivate audiences with their rich textures and evocative storytelling.

With a melodic cluster dripping into a pool of dark water, UkabazUmorezU's arrival ripples as an apex in Sugai Ken's continued construction of a deeply resonant, enveloping sound world. Upon contact, UkabazUmorezU gently and generously unfurls across aural alleys and streets mundanely but mystically detailed with recontextualized Japanese rituals and tradition. A lived experience of traditional Japanese music's conversation with environment, and vice versa, forms the melodic make-up and metaphysical philosophy conditioning UkabazUmorezU. Upon imagining a landscape, Sugai decomposes the image (and the images within the image) and replaces it with a sound representation - an artifactual terrain, tethered to but abstracted from the natural world. The eleven pieces which form UkabazUmorezU dovetail meaningfully with the invented album title, roughly translating to "slow and steady wins the race." Made up of recordings sourced and appropriated from the local performing arts of Kanagawa, Japan (where Sugai lives), his daily surroundings, and Sugai's tool kit of electronic synthesis, UkabazUmorezU evokes tranquil patience while never settling into a single style or still of sound for too long.

UkabazUmorezU

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