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karu:32, CD (digipak)
9 audio tracks, (p) 2014
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Release date: 04/07/2014
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Experimental ambient at nightThe "field" of experimental ambient music (if there is such a thing) needs Sawako's delicate, measured, expansive touch. We connoisseurs yearn for it. Sadly, the woman who describes herself as a "sound sculptor" and a "signal alchemist" is so busy â think of her audio-visual installation at the planetarium of the Sonar Festival or her numerous live performances, including an appearance on Ryuichi Sakamoto's radio show â that we simply had to wait. This time, the waiting lasted six years before we could put our ears on a follow-up to her exquisite 12k release Bitter Sweet. And, of course, nu.it is well worth the wait.
nu.it almost looks like a website URL but it isn't. What it is, though, is the perfect embodiment of Sawako's art: concise, quiet, yet incredibly rich in possible meanings. We have the French word "nuit," which means night, and this is clearly music of the night, from the go-to-sleep mood of "Locus of Everyday Life" to the recurring impression of being staked out in the jungle after dark, listening to unexpected creatures. This is not reality, unless it is a new form of reality, in which case the title could be pronounced "new it." The title can be read in other ways, in other languages, and ultimately its meaning is left to you.
Sawako has released albums on the labels 12k, and/OAR, Anticipate, and now Baskaru. Her audio and visual works have been programmed around the world at such events and venues as the Sonar Festival, MUTEK, P.S.1/MoMA, UCLA Hammer Museum, Roulette, Resonance FM, and ICA London. nu.it's mastering was entrusted to Yu Miyashita, aka Yaporigami, who released material on Mille Plateaux, mAtter, Hz Records, and +MUS. The cover art is by kynd, whose ephemeral OpenFrameworks drawings have been featured by CreativeApplications.
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locus of everyday life |
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pass.age |
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nostal.noz |
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nemumel |
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f.light |
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piano cote |
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o.ver |
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mind.ight |
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in.fini |
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Album Digest
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A seeming simplicity that hides a complex and careful management of the sound.
BLOW UP, November 2014
A great success.
DMUTE, September 2014
An album made of clouds and cotton wool on which pianos float in fragrant, soft fluttering mists, surrounded by a wide falling reverberation.
GONZO CIRCUS, September 2014
Sawakao is operating in a carefully considered cocoon of warm and degraded sound, a smear of tranquillity, garnered by something that feels like it is happening in the next room, or a few hundred tape generations ago.
CYCLIC DEFROST, September 2014
Like on her previous efforts, the appearance of different sounds is particularly satisfying, like those small dry notes on 'Piano Cote', making 'nu.it' ââa rather convincing album.
ETHERREAL, September 2014
Sawako and the splendor of her acoustic delicacy unfold with a discreet quietude like waves of smooth stridency.
HAWÁI, September 2014
An album that glides and eddies and flows supple and ether-like somewhere some distance above the ground.
WHISPERIN AND HOLLERIN, September 2014
Beautiful ambient atmospheres.
LOOP, September 2014
Sawako reveals in 'nu.it' a vision of neo-classical ambient music of the highest rank.
RIFRAF, September 2014
This highly controlled opus puts Sawako as one of the most interesting artists in the field of experimental ambient.
OBSKÜRE, September 2014
Very beautiful and positive music.
DARK ROOM RITUALS, August 2014
Peculiar, yet familiar, Sawako has produced an engaging release that dips its toe in momentary madness and carefully reigns in its sporadic moments into a cohesive and enjoyable album, that stands above those that are merely pretenders to the cause.
BLACK AUDIO, August 2014
Delicate, organic and subtle ambient music.
NOWA MUZYKA, July 2014
The delicate touch the sound sculptress brings to her exquisite electro-acoustic settings is a rare and precious thing.
TEXTURA, July 2014
A dense and dark yet beautiful inspiring soundscape.
MUSIK AN SICH, July 2014
Shimmering, dark, beautiful, naive and simply gorgeous.
VITAL WEEKLY, July 2014
A homogeneous and complex but successful album.
HHV, July 2014
If you love Ambient as a genre, you need to hear this one for sure.
NITESTYLEZ, July 2014
Nu.it is a meditative, tranquil and yet mesmerizing river of surprises where each song constitutes an endless highway of microsonic organisms and aerial structures.
INFINITE GRAIN, July 2014
"nu.it" is composed of nine subtle musical pieces that perfectly embody the art of Sawako: concise and quiet, but very rich in meanings.
HUNGER CULTURE, July 2014
Richness in the precision and unfathomable depth of quiet contemplation.
KINDAMUZIK, June 2014
Sawako has used ambient music to go to a different place: inside herself.
CARNAGE NEWS, June 2014
There is an ethereal wall of dense sound that it might be deemed as something more or less ambiental but there is so much more to it and foremostly all is done with such effortless grace that you might ask how so many elements can be put into one.
FELTHAT, June 2014
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