Chihei Hatakeyama doesn’t play somber ambient guitar drone so much as he channels and soundtracks a ceaseless coastal fog sleepily drifting in from the Pacific’s serene bed towards all awakened ports. These gentle, airy, ambient ghost-shanties whispering eternally & without hint of anchor are the recycled mists of Sisyphean tears microtonally eddying & fluttering in binaural glisten, their atmosphere a stoic haunting in the most neutral way conceivable.
Scandinavia may have the hottest guitar licks on the planet, but Japan’s got the most chill, by far.
http://www.ctatsu.com/portfolio/scene/
and/or
http://www.chihei.org/
-- Jacob An Kittenplan
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