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01. AKI ONDA - A Day of Pilgrimage
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02. AKI ONDA - Dust
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03. AKI ONDA - Bruise and Bite
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04. AKI ONDA - The Sun Clings to the Earth and There is No Darkness
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05. AKI ONDA - I Tell a Story of Bodies that Change
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ARTIST
ONDA, AKI
TITLE
Cassette Memories Volume 3: South of the Border
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
IMPORTANT RECORDS
CATALOG #
IMPREC 309CD
IMPREC 309CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/20/2012
"Aki Onda is an electronic musician, composer, and visual artist... particularly known for his
Cassette Memories
project -- works compiled from a 'sound diary' of field-recordings collected by Onda over a span of two decades."
"
South of the Border
is the third installment of my
Cassette Memories
album series. All field recordings were taped in Mexico, a country I've had a special fondness for since I was a little child. My first memory was watching photographs and Super 8 films my father shot in Mexico City from his time there during the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he competed as a member of the Japanese national hockey team. It made me realize there is a place completely different from Japan, and I started dreaming about 'another world.' When I was a teenager, I encountered Alejandro Jodorowsky's seminal film
El Topo
, which shocked me with its surreal images and strong mysticism. That experience shaped my primal image of the country, although I wasn't sure if it was true reality or pure imagination. Finally, I made my first visit to Mexico in 2005. I was amazed that everything was as I had envisioned. Mexico embraces extreme wealth and poverty, highly contemporary and primitive lifestyles, intellect and superstition, and any sort of polarities all in one. Somehow, in this chaos, the boundary between reality and imagination disappears. In this way, everything is possible, and that's what I believe. Technical notes: I had three cassette Walkmans to make field recordings while I was traveling in Mexico. Two became broken due to tape head and motor wear, but I continued using them. Some of the beautifully messed-up sound collages you will hear were produced accidentally due to the imperfect condition of the recorders."
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