kodama “turning leaf migrations” long playing record

• there were seedling from the terraced lake side. doppled sprouting points where winters and springs where beginnings and endings met and these things stuck inside of each other like honey drops uprooting mycelium in the night forest of grmade we spoke with the bubilant sage while we crawled our dance around a fungus stump courting the tiny folks to come and play (18:42)
  
  
• wandering around inside of ourea we blew into the breathing of the stochastic rushing water - and once again,  the mirror was too steams to cross the voracious throat then even falling couldn’t forge a path to send back the frozen land that sleeping river has seen the bombs that just sank into its phlegmatic walls backing up into a cultural ditch we slobbered through the din of the alcoholics’ babble hiding out in shelters where we bounced the wireless in circles, back on top of itself - so much so that the water didn’t come in we waved our leaves over broken branches piles on top of each other endlessly to obscure the spring where even once we slept by the arctic ocean when cloud drops bounced on our strings we rose on top and sang to the stars - so far that the differences were yet to be seen... (22:05)

olde english spelling bee press release...

oesb-18 kodama "turning leaf migrations" lp brand new release - limited to 500 - this one's a monster - one of the best oesb releases to datekodama is the ongoing recording project of two well-known visual and sound artists - hitoshi kojo and michael northam - and this is their first widely available release as a duo. recorded in various improbable locations whenever they crossed paths over the course of several years and then finally edited and assembled in a cluttered garage in the west side of indianapolis. there is a decidedly more improvisational feel and crisp psychedelic aura to these recordings when compared to their other work and one can hear the influence of ghedalia tazartes in how the various recordings were stitched together. to quote hitoshi kojo: we are the spirit of forest. our howling has been offered to the many goddesses of the valleys. teething our emptiness they, licking the stars, until white holes appear in our sky through them towards regenerative guides of the tonal-morphic omni-verses.   using found objects to seduce voices from unlikely sources as well as traditional instruments of wind, wires and wood. kodama weaves between emotional poetry and dynamic forces of noises. the recordings have a strong atmosphere of each location - the top of a mountain in switzerland, a campground in ohio, lofoten island in norway, the arctic circle in finland, niagara falls, etc. it includes a lot of the dirts of the raw recordings, but also incredibly beautiful moments such as the session with an owl in a slovenian forest, an alpine summit singing meditation under the vast galaxy, and an encounter with the small people through strange ritual... limited pressing of 500 copies. covers & insert printed on 2-color offset press with illustrations and design by hitoshi kojo.

spiracle “ananta” double compact disc set

• ananta (strato version) (52:39)
  
  
• ananta (mystery sea version) (62:22)

the helen scarsdale agency press release...

spiracle ananta the helen scarsdale agency : hms017 : 2cd release date : september 2009 hitoshi kojo (aks spiracle) professes to have some difficulties in falling asleep. when sleep comes to him, it can often arrive at dawn, when the colors of the sun begin to break through the darkness of night and when some are just rising after their own good night's sleep. ananta is a twin set of compositions that urge the listener toward a dreamless sleep-state, while reflecting the glowing warmth of a blossoming sunrise. in constructing the two variations of ananta, kojo began with finely tuned drones extracted from a dilruba and a sarangi, and applied a process of merging sympathetic field recordings and other tonal interferences alongside those instrumental sounds. the resulting pieces are elliptically static drone compositions that brightly shimmer with hues of gold, crimson, and aquamarine. one of the two variations of ananta was published back in 2006 as a micro-edition cdr through mystery sea. in composing the mystery sea version, kojo purposefully eschewed the representational sounds of the "night ocean drones" espoused by the label, opting for these aforementioned concepts. on this piece of tiny churning textures streaming along a linear path, kojo's piece nearly achieves infinity, which happens to be the translation from sanskrit of "ananta." while other works from kojo enjoy the darkly elegant arches found in select recordings from organum and lawrence english, the mystery sea version of ananta fits more of the tradition of the roland kayn, yoshi wada, and charlemagne palestine in constructing pieces which require endurance, lest you succumb to kojo's audio hypnosis. the strato version of ananta is a previously unreleased composition, that bends and undulates around a fundamental drone, all the while still maintaining the sun-flecked glints magnified in the mystery sea version. limited to 300 copies