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Kosei Fukuda
流転 陰 ・ RUTEN -

流転 陰 ・ RUTEN -

Labels

Reiten

Catno

RTN012

Formats

2x Vinyl 12"

Country

Japan

Release date

Dec 18, 2020

Styles

EU Stock: ✅
UK Stock: ✅

After two series of conceptual EPs and the intricate experimental “Enso” Festival compilation, Kosei Fukuda returns with a full length solo project – the debut LP. This marks his thirteenth release on the Reiten label – a platform he created to showcase his techno music and the more general, experimental aesthetic agenda of which the club music is but one facet. As a producer and sound artist, Fukuda has shared his time between Tokyo and Berlin. Delving into the music scene of the latter in the late 2010s, he attracted the attention of and has worked with artists including Berghain resident Tobias Freund, Claudio PRC and Rabih Beaini.

The album is split into two halves, and in principle, the two albums, called ‘Ruten –’ and ‘Ruten +’ are meant to represent the principle of Ying & Yang, the two elemental forces and the eternal cycle of energy. As a whole, they signify a journey from the nascent being to the eventual dissolution of everything into nothing. The first volume starts appropriately with the unassuming intro “dawn” and proceeds from the investigative look at the evanescent yet tangible droplets of “mist” and on to the contemplative gaze at the most distant, unreachable constellation of “nebula”. Regardless of metaphorical intent though, the music moves within one universe of downtempo, ambient and drone, combining the palpable beats (rhythmic pattern) with the atmospheric backgrounds (harmonic flow).

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A1

暁 Akatsuki

01:44

A2

霧 Kiri

09:26

A3

五月雨 Samidare

04:24

B1

石火 Sekka

06:06

B2

臨死 Rinshi

05:07

B3

夢遊浮遊 Muyuu Fuyuu

03:22

C1

時ノ間 Toki no Ma

05:41

C2

哀憐 Airen

05:27

C3

諦観 Teikan

04:06

D1

陰火 Inka

02:56

D2

天漢 Tenkan

06:24

D3

星雲 Seiun

04:29

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