An'archives – [An'16]
Legendary drummer, Ikuro Takahashi played in most of the important bands
of the psychedelic underground Japanese scene : Keiji Haino’s
Fushitsusha, Seishokki, High Rise, Ché-Shizu, Maher Shalal Hash Baz,
Kousokuya, LSD March and Nagisa Ni Te, but also with Junzo Suzuki, Tamio
Shiraishi, Akiko Hotaka and many others, making it difficult to write a
comprehensive list. Ikuro does not make a distinction between the young
musicians with whom he collaborates, and the big names of the
underground behind whom he brings an enveloping rhythm, like the wind
blowing through a bamboo forest.
A native of Hokkaï do, born in 1957, exiled in downtown Tokyo, Ikuro
Takahashi lived there for a while before settling back in Sapporo with
his partner, dancer Yoko Muronoi, starting the Anoyonodekigoto project
together. All pieces gathered here were composed for their duo shows.
Yoko Moronoi was reunited with the shadows of her ancestors in 2017,
leaving Ikuro alone in the world of the living. This record appears as
the last flower laid at the shrine of her dance.
This album gathers 7 tracks, most of which were built from an overlay of
oscillators, music boxes and metronomes. Sometimes it recalls Takehisa
Kosugi’s pieces, a common way of unfolding time and space, of making our
perception float. A common saving of gesture, of concept. Ikuro
Takahashi is like a weaver trapping our listening in his electric wires,
dragging us in a flux of rhythmic, fluid, circular patterns.
Ikuro Takahashi is like these shamans summoning our shadows, our ghosts, to make the living core within us sing.
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