Hong Kong’s 4’33” Records (named, of course, for American avant-garde composer John Cage’s most notorious composition) specialize in experimental music which crosses into drone and ambient fluidly. This release is by Yoyogi Koen (Yoyogi Park) and though reference information isn’t listen anywhere, I would assume them to be also out of Hong Kong, though I’ll publish a note if I am in error.
The music is really dubby for experimental music, something I wasn’t quite expecting. There are folkloric sounds which mesh incredibly well in said genre, and the inspiration for this album comes from Japanese folklore. If you’re familiar with Japanese ghost stories (think Tales of Moonlight and Rain [雨月物語] by Ueda Akinari), you will hear a lot of spookiness within these beats. Quite impressive.
