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Duenn Takuro Okada
都市計画 Urban Planning

都市計画 Urban Planning

Catno

NWM-004

Formats

1x Vinyl LP Album

Country

Japan

Release date

Sep 15, 2020

Styles

Ambient

Tokyo based Newhere Music is now proud to present this concept album by Okada Takuro + duenn: "Urban Planning" .

This urban sound is made to be "air" to you.

"As ignorable as it is interesting" is how Brian Eno describes Ambient music. Then how should this sound be part of our life in 2020?

After works by Oh Shu & BIOMAN, Jim O'Rourke, Ana Da Silva & Phew, Tokyo based Newhere Music is now proud to present this concept album by Okada Takuro + duenn: "Urban Planning" .

duenn has been working with labels from all over the world including Entr'acte (Belgium) and Past Inside The Present (US). His experimental unit 3RENSA with Merzbow and Nyantora has performed with legendary sound designer Matsuo Ohno (Astro Boy) and artist Shohei Tsuda. In recent years, duenn's work can be heard at galleries and exhibitions, including a recent collaboration with Shiho Yoshida.

After Moriwaikiteiru disbanded, Okada Takuro started his solo projects with his debut album "Nostalgia". Apart from songwriting, Okada is also active as a producer and in film score.

The Urban Planning album project started from a sparkle in a discussion between Okada and duenn, with "sound of the city" as a keyword. What should be ambient music in our life, in the present time?

Respect of Ambient musicians and contemporary artists since the 80s, such as Yukio Fujimoto and Hiroshi Yoshimura to name a few, can be recognized in this album. However, the two artists are not trying to recreate the past masterpieces and instead, they are taking the cities of the 2020s as their raw material of inspiration. The tracks are concise and comprehensive, and the album has a precise concept with primitive melodies by duenn. duenn and Okada have clearly divided roles during the making, with duenn for the first time on melodies, and Okada on editing and producing. It is also interesting that duenn chose to use GarageBand, a tool accessible to all, for his first melody-making. For the listeners, the touch of simplicity may well remind them of the lullabies in their childhood.

The artists have spent two years on this creation. Imagine the commuter trains, the cars, your room, your local park for a walk. This is the sound of the city, blent into every moment in urban life.

Media: Mi
Sleeve: M

22.9€*

*Taxes included, shipping price excluded

A1

Waterfront

A2

Aquapolis

A3

Third Sector

A4

Hana To Midori To Hikari

A5

Nijuuisseiki No Mori

A6

Green Park

A7

Social Welfare

A8

Public Space

B1

New Urban Center

B2

Subcenter

B3

Landscape

B4

Zone

B5

116

B6

Public Open Space

B7

Cosmodome

B8

Infrastructure