SOUNDTRACK: KAWABATA MAKOTO [河端一]-Mizu Naranu Ao Ni Sae [水ならぬ青にさへ] (1998).
Recently, Kawabata Makoto [河端一], mastermind behind Acid Mothers Temple, revealed a new bandcamp site for some newer solo recordings.
This album is more along the lines of what you might expect from Kawabata Makoto: electric guitar solos from 1998.
Dazzling music for the temporal world, overflowing with a sense of pellucidity totally different from his work with Musica Transonic.
The album has two songs.
The first is “Mai Sagarisi Negai [舞い下がりし願ひ] (16:38). . It is loops of guitar noises and feedback. It’s not a lot of guitar “playing” but more like guitar experimenting.
“Amou No Shibuki [天生の水沫] (17:59) is different. It features ringing, chiming guitars and sounds like he has something metallic resting on the strings to keep everything vibrating. This one is more spacey.
[READ: June 13, 2020] “Pursuit as Happiness”
I haven’t read a ton of Ernest Hemingway. Honestly, his stories of hunting and boxing and whatever other masculine things he was up to while somehow also being a sissy writer never appealed to me.
This is the story of the pursuit, capture and slaughter of marlins. Now frankly, I think a marlin is about the coolest thing in the ocean. And while it may be very manly to wrestle one in with just a fishing line, it sure seems like a waste of a beautiful fish.
So Ernest (for the narrator’s name is Ernest Hemingway) and the captain of the boat he was on fished off of Cuba for a month. They caught twenty-five but that wasn’t enough, so they went back for more. (more…)
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