Phase Contrast From Recollection, by Akhira Sano

Phase Contrast From Recollection

by Akhira Sano

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1.	Confluent 07:16	buy track
2.	Pure Joy 05:53	buy track
3.	Look Back To Differentation 05:10	buy track
4.	Cytoarchitecture 05:42	buy track
5.	Grain Culture 05:45	buy track
6.	I'll Be There For Your Recollections 06:54	buy track
7.	Mesangial 05:36	buy track

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12k welcomes Tokyo-based artist Akhira Sano (with previous releases on Important Records and IKKII, among others) to the label with Phase Contrast From Recollection, a suite of minimalist works that embrace the discreet punctuations and dynamics of piano, tines and sine tones. These small occurrences are born from Sano’s concept of celluar movement and the formations and evolutions of life.

Phase Contrast From Recollection explores its sonic world through a microscope, its sound wriggling and jumping, skittish, yet curious. Sano is interested in movement, not just in celluar form, but also as physical vibrations in the air. Tiny movements of sound are as fascinating to him as those biological ones.

Amongst the palette of almost-pure musical tones lives a layer of noise and static, microscopic, as if residue and byproduct of celluar movements. There is both calmness and restlessness in these works. The gentle waves and muted piano exist in an open space, churn and collide on laboratory glass. And there also lies a directness, a lack of artificial reverb or implied space. The sounds focused and removed from a large world to live happily in a tiny one.

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released June 9, 2023

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12k is a New York based experimental music label run by artist Taylor Deupree that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music since 1997.

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