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01. Takeshi Nishimoto - Memory 4am
02. Takeshi Nishimoto - Rider
03. Takeshi Nishimoto - Miles And Thousands
04. Takeshi Nishimoto - Looking Up The Sky
05. Takeshi Nishimoto - Voice 1 - Slow Door
06. Takeshi Nishimoto - Interweave
07. Takeshi Nishimoto - New Morning
08. Takeshi Nishimoto - She Walks In A Dream
09. Takeshi Nishimoto - Voice 2 - Bells
10. Takeshi Nishimoto - Reflections
11. Takeshi Nishimoto - Coming Home
12. Takeshi Nishimoto - Voice 3 -Vision
ARTIST
TITLE
Monologue
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
BURO 005CD BURO 005CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/1/2007

This is the first solo album by Berlin-based guitarist and composer Takeshi Nishimoto. Monologue was recorded in a one-day session in a church in Berlin, the natural acoustics providing a perfect ground for Takeshi's compositions. The guitar-playing represents what every artist should strive for through the recording process; the subtle combination of innocent meanderings and musical dexterity. In doing so he proves that the actual talent for composing is far more important than the relentless studies of those viewed as sacred artists. Full of creased melodies and charming adjuncts, Takeshi Nishimoto seems to take genuine pleasure in allowing compositions to unfurl with a languid grace that stands in stark juxtaposition to the urban agitation in which most of us live. Opening through a piece entitled "Morning 4am," Nishimoto's Japanese heritage is immediately apparent with a poignant composition that evokes mist-draped mountains, Koto mysticism and the swell of optimism that dawn ultimately brings. Immediately following this water-color prologue is the buoyant acoustic guitar of "Rider," wherein the hushed soft-shoe dancing of traditional flamenco or slow-motion grace of ice-skaters is brought to mind through delicate guitar, which retains its polemic despite an outward fragility. Blossoming from a chiming guitar that eschews any notion of hushed reverence, "Miles And Thousands" is nonetheless a pithy distillation of what it means for music to be haunting -- instinctively bringing to mind a tranquil and inviting landscape that demands your exploration, before the brief vignette of "Looking Up The Sky" snags the attention amongst its undulating tones. "Voice 1 -- Slow Door" coats an abstract heart with a sparing gloss of plucked strings to startling effect, while "Interweave" bucks your expectations as a Brazilian flavor is introduced through Takeshi's pin-point executed tremolo. Takeshi's inherent talents and sensibilities have allowed him to assemble a repertoire of twelve compositions that are both spellbinding and surprisingly complex, with harmonic chord inventions that impress immediately without cluttering the ears.