9 авг. 2012 г.

Chihei Hatakeyama


Chihei Hatakeyama is a musician and an organizer who was born in 1978, and lives in the outskirts of Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006.

Opitope actively organizes a continuous live performance event named Kuala Mute Geek in Tokyo (Kuala means "a crossing point of streams" in Malay). The event is powered by hand-made vacuum tube amplifiers and speakers in up to eight channel settings. Electroacoustic and improvisational artists such as Taylor Duepree, Christopher Willits, Toshimaru Nakamura, Christophe Charles, Hans Reichel, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Tamaru, Carl Stone, Keiichi Sugimoto, Tetsuro Yasunaga, Boris D Hegenbart, Yoshio Machida and many more have performed. Kuala Mute Geek creates possibilities for interaction and dialogue among the artists and listeners.

Hatakeyama collaborated with Tomoyoshi Date on a track on the compilation Small Melodies from Spekk in 2005. He also organizes the improvisation band Copa del Papa with a rotating lineup. Hatakeyama and Date launched a label Kualauk Table to release compilations of their selected sessions with guest artists like Christophe Charles, Tamaru, Tagomago, Asuna, Askococo and others in late 2005.



See also compilations with Bartosz's participation:




Ask for download links in comments.


29 комментариев:

  1. I'd like a copy of "White Sun" . Thank you very much!

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  2. What a great post, Iam a huge fan of Mr. Hatakeyama. If you could provide links for The Secret Distance Of Tochka, August,and White Sun I will be forever grateful

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  3. Today I'd like to hear:

    minima moralia
    bare strata
    dedication
    saunter
    variations
    ghostly garden
    a long journey
    mirror
    scale compositions
    variations
    the river

    Thanks for all your hard work.

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  4. just need links to void II, void III, hau and sun room. thanks a lot.

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  5. Midnight in Hsinking, Sacrifice for Pleasure, It is It isn't.

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  6. May I request:
    Norma
    Void 4 & 5
    Rain outside my House

    That would be highly appreciated, thank you.

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  7. Can I please request:
    2007 - Hau [with Tomoyoshi Date] - 320 Kbps
    2010 - Sun Room [with Tomoyoshi Date and Asuna] - 320 Kbps
    2011 - Air [with Naph] - 320 Kbps
    2013 - The Bull Head Emperor - 320 Kbps
    2013 - Alone by The Sea - 320 Kbps
    2013 - A Colony Of Kuala Mute Geeks [with Tomoyoshi Date] - 320 Kbps
    2014 - Midnight In Hsinking - 320 Kbps
    2014 - It is, it isn’t [with Hakobune] - 320 Kbps
    2009 - Hibernate Sampler Volume 1 - 320 Kbps
    2010 - Room40 - 10 - 320 Kbps
    2010 - Sing - 320 Kbps
    2011 - Air Texture Volume 1 - 320 Kbps

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  8. Thanks sos much! Your blog is amazing

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  9. Do you have:
    2014 - Void VI ?

    Thanks a lot.

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  10. 2015 - Frozen Silence [with Sakana Hosomi] - 320 Kbps
    2015 - Mist - 320 Kbps
    2015 - Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains - 320 Kbps

    Can I please request

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  11. Great stuff! Can you link to 2015 - Magical Imaginary Child?
    Thanks!

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  12. Hi, may i asked you link to Winter Storm 2014? Thank you!

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  13. Could you upload Moss [with Ken Ikeda] ?

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  14. Any way you could upload these for me? Id really appreciate it

    2016 - Void IX - 320 Kbps
    2016 - Requiem for Black Night and Earth Spiders - 320 Kbps
    2016 - You're Still In It

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  15. Can I please request:
    2008 - Dedication
    2015 - Five Dreams
    2016 - You're Still In It

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