daisuke miyatani, a longtime friend since the launch of SCHOLE label, will be reissuing his first album “diario” in digital remastered edition. The original version was released from Ahomfelder label from Germany in 2007.
Created with an acoustic guitar, a field recording of birds chirping and raindrops, and some layers of fragile electronic sounds, produces a gentle comfortable sound. His first album provided the worldview what SCHOLE aspires to be and loved by label staffs, then it was first introduced in a free magazine published by SCHOLE. After ten years, a long-desired re-release of the album is finally out and comes with four bonus tracks included; “brew”, “itsumono”, “utouto”, and “kurasu”. An ambient music what carries a warm atmosphere to the scenery of our everyday life.
原發行介紹 Daisuke Miyatani lives on the Awaji Island in Japan and usually works in a bookshop. Maybe that is where he finds the rest and silence to create his fragile compositions. Or it is his Japanese cultural background that leads to the calm, haiku-like miniatures.
Daisuke establishes a reduced and minimal approach mostly based on guitars, accompanied by xylophones and other instruments. The songs have an open character, with a lot of silence, and repetition. These elements are contrasted with more ambient-like, electronically composed material. Hence the album is a fruitful interplay between constant atmospheres and point-like acoustic notes. Most of the songs include fieldrecordings which are rather subtle, underlying. All the electronic elements still have an annalog character, fitting with the dominating acoustic instruments.
"Diario" establishes a warm and calm atmosphere and yet avoiding to be a trivial album. The techniques of minimalism, repetition, integration of concrete sounds, electro-acoustic combination are all used in a very discrete way. The result is an interesting album very comfortable to listen to.
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