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The title nods to a 16th-century study of magnetism, and it is magnetism that is at the heart of this release, with Takuji Nakas cassette decks and Tim Olives magnetic pickups, across five untitled tracks, initiating a dream-logic-imbued semi-narrative flow, in which out of date low-tech sound sources are at the service of an ears-forward compositional sensibility.

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The title nods to a 16th-century study of magnetism, and it is magnetism that is at the heart of this release, with Takuji Nakas cassette decks and Tim Olives magnetic pickups, across five untitled tracks, initiating a dream-logic-imbued semi-narrative flow, in which out of date low-tech sound sources are at the service of an ears-forward compositional sensibility. The use of pliable metals, analog electronics and a battered spring reverb unit, along with the inherent instability of cassettes, results in an atmosphere of subdued unease, over-the-horizon mystery and a burnished, melancholy beauty. Perhaps it is a bit of a stretch to link Nakas career as a temple gardener in Kyoto and Olives relatively recent involvement in film with the musics austerely organic and eerily cinematic aspects, but there you have it. Recorded in the mountains in the north of Kyoto in 2013, the CD has a strong sense of place, but as befitting magnetisms play of opposites, that sense of place shifts and flickers; time ebbs and returns; the light grows dim.

CD digipak release, with liner notes in Japanese and English by musicologist/writer/composer Wakao Yu.

EM1139CD -Artist-Takuji Naka / Tim Olive

• Format Detail: CD
• Internal ID: JIT
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 5 business days for this item’s shipment.**
• Format: CD
• Genre: Rock
• Released: 3/21/16