Pioneering electronic minimalist Taylor Deupree and revered Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto collaborate properly for the first time with the willowy ambient beauty of Disappearance.
This marks the culmination of several years’ worth of collaboration between the pair, both of whom live in New York. When rehearsing for a joint show in 2012, they began recording at Sakamoto’s studio, resulting in five tracks. Tokyo songwriter Ichiko Aoba appears on the final cut, “Curl to Me.”
The tracks are apparently very sparse, and a press release notes, “Sakamoto’s piano playing, both traditional and prepared, emerged as perhaps some of his most beautifully sparse in recent years, letting the sound of the room and shuffle of chairs take an active roll in the recording.
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Only the most minimum of essential notes, accentuated by silences and the scraping of the piano’s strings, plays alongside Deupree’s nuanced passages, created with analogue synthesizers, strings, and found objects.”
That said, the album apparently isn’t all soft and pretty, since there are said to be noisy and percussive elements in addition to “the warble of old reel-to-reel tape.”