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MUSIQ 274LP
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Soft piano notes kiss trippy electronic tones. Kossaiko, the only collaborative record that Japanese piano player Saiko Tsukamoto and globally known electronic producer Kuniyuki Takahashi ever produced, is an unmissable profound soft classic music burner. Together they composed and produced an eight-chapter strong deeply absorbing narrative whose enthralling story arc dives profound into authentic drama zones, that sound like they jumped right out of a Claude Sautet movie. Originally released in 2007 as CD only, the perfectly put together long player now enters the world for the first time in a vinyl edition that is tragically hip. Deeply starry-eyed compositions full of minimalistic piano melodies that creep, twist, and dance around unobtrusive electronic notes who never call the tune, but always elevate the spectacle into higher electronic spheres. In the center of each between five- and nine-minutes long composition is the piano play of Saiko, gently hitting the keys, giving space to each note to vibrate in an endless Pauline Oliveros way, drifting until the very last sound vanish. around them, Kuniyuki plays his charming electronic tricks, opening the space for tones that sometimes pulsate, sometimes flow the ambient way. Furthermore, occasionally a guitar notes pop up or accordion melodies cover the sorcery with a severely romantic veil. Modern classical music, that has no fear of electronic meltdowns, that embraces digital tones while staying organic in its very inner circle. A wise man once said: "when words leave off, music begins". Those who fall for the eight poems of Saikoss will lose their speech and in return get pleased all agitations of their soul.
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MULE 008CD
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This is the debut release by the newly formed duo of Tsukamoto Saiko (aka Museum of Plate) and Kuniyuki Takahashi, the main man for the ambient project, Koss and deep house project Kuniyuki. They now form a new unit, Saikoss. Saiko has been featured as a pianist for many different artists and releases. The combination of his smooth, Oriental-styled piano and Takahashi's talented skills with melody, have created a powerful soundtrack collection. In October of 2006, Saikoss performed their first live gig at the Sonar Festival in Tokyo. Jeff Mills reviewed their performance as the best act of the entire festival, and it created a mass of followers eager for the duo to release a CD of music to take with them wherever they go.
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