04 May 2010 / Discography / shotahirama – Unhappy American Lost In Tokyo

RE-CD-005R
shotahirama – Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo

Tokyo based sound artist, shotahirama‘s latest album “Unhappy American Lost in Tokyo”, is inspired by the idea of a person with dual nationality and multiple citizenship. It is an attempt to explore the themes of their loneliness, alienation, insomnia, existential ennui, and culture shock against the backdrop of a modern Japanese cityscape. Sounds move across a broad range of spheres from electronic based composition, through to evocative field recordings that seek to reveal those sound spaces largely ignored or inaudible. Capturing sounds as delicate as sand grains in motion, shota uses laptop computers to makes multilayered compositions that blend synthesized melody and conventional musical instruments with harsh, irregular glitch-influenced sounds and washes of white noise. shota also used field-recording materials (taken by shota himself) to create concrete noise for dynamic sounds of drone.

Filed under: Electronica, Field Recordings, Soundscape