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RTN013
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2x Vinyl 12"
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Release date
Jan 22, 2021
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Kosei Fukuda presents the second half of his debut album – Ruten. In principle, the two halves, 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. Yet there’s still a deeper message at play: the omnipresence of patterns. Even the incessant flow of changes is patterned. The philosophers ask what it tells us about reality. The artists offer answers, each coded in the respective artistic language.
The second volume offers a different take on such explorations, moving towards more nebulous and fuzzier modes of musical imagination. It is here where Fukuda’s music begins to evince ineffable qualities, going beyond words that could definitively grasp its content. As such it seems to be asking: are patterns really there, or are we projecting them onto the world? This change of the composition style signifies a change of intellectual perspective, the second complementing the first. Drone-like sounds of the opening tracks appear alien initially, but on closer inspection they are reminiscent of this-worldly ambient sounds – just amplified many times over, stretched to a border of recognition, and rearranged for a thought-provoking auditory experience. They are impressionist vignettes where chromatic properties count for much more than any beat or harmonic structure.
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A1
白光 Hakkou
05:02
A2
慈光 Jikou
04:13
A3
光源 Kougen
04:35
B1
回向 Ekou
04:48
B2
根源 Kongen
02:19
B3
混沌 Konton
09:39
C1
法眼 Hougen
02:39
C2
霊験 Reigen
09:28
C3
幽玄 Yugen
02:12
D1
蕭寥 Shouryou
04:10
D2
陽炎 Youen
09:03
D3
流転 Ruten
02:01