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Black Truffle is pleased to announce For McCoy, a new work by Eiko Ishibashi dedicated to the widely loved character of Jack McCoy, portrayed by Sam Waterston in Law & Order. Following on from Hyakki Yagyō (BT064), For McCoy finds Ishibashi further exploring the unique space she has carved out in recent years, bringing together musique concrète techniques, ECM-inspired jazz, lush layers of synths and hints of pop into immersive and affecting structures crafted in her home studio, aided by a group of close collaborators.
Beginning with overlapping layers of descending flute lines, the expansive ‘I Can Feel Guilty About Anything’ (whose two parts stretch out over more than thirty minutes) unfolds with a free-associative logic, embracing dreamlike transitions and unexpected cinematic cuts. As a hovering cloud of synthetic tones and multi-tracked voices fans out from the spare opening moments, Joe Talia’s skittering cymbals settle into a gently propulsive groove, soon joined by melodic fragments performed by Daisuke Fujiwara on multi-tracked saxophone. As the drums cede to field recordings and ominous synth figures, the uncommon meeting of saxophone and electroacoustic techniques call to mind the more spacious moments of Michel Redolfi and André Jaume’s Synclavier-propelled oddity Hardscore or the early work of Gilbert Artman’s Urban Sax. As the piece continues on the LP’s second side, distant dialogue rumbles beneath a surface of processed flutes, blurring into a cavernously reverberant backdrop for stark ascending lines performed by MIO.O on violin. Eventually, the piece settles into a gorgeous passage of abstracted dream pop, where Ishibashi’s multitracked vocal harmonies glide atop synth chords, errant pings and snatches of outdoor sound.
Fragments of melodic material reappear throughout the spacious opening piece, finally stepping to the forefront on the closing track, ‘Ask Me How I Sleep at Night’. Here, over a shuffling groove supplied by Jim O’Rourke on double bass and Tatsuhisa Yamamoto on drums, layers of flutes, saxophones and guitars sound out melodies whose combination of twisting irregularity and soulful immediacy calls up prime Keith Jarrett, while their closely voiced harmonies suggest Kenny Wheeler or even Wayne Shorter’s Atlantis. In a classical gesture of closure, the web of melodic lines eventually leads back to the descending flute figures with which the record began. Presented in an immersive, impeccably detailed mix by Jim O’Rourke and arriving in a sleeve featuring Ishibashi’s beautiful drawings of Jack McCoy, For McCoy is an essential release for anyone following the enchanted and unique path being forged by Eiko Ishibashi.
Tracklisting
I can feel guilty about anything (Part 1)
I can feel guilty about anything (Part 2)
Ask me how I sleep at night
映画『ドライブ・マイ・カー』オリジナル・サウンドトラックは、アルバム1枚通して楽しめるよう石橋が10曲のアルバムとして完成させた作品でした。映画公開が世界中に拡大する中、アメリカの劇場予告編の全編に渡ってサウンドトラックが使用されたことに喜びに感じた本人によって、その予告編で使用された２曲をボーナストラックとした『Drive My Car Original Soundtrack (with bonus tracks)』が配信開始されました。その1曲、「Drive My Car (Hiroshima)」のオフィシャル・オーディオも公開となりました。
Drive My Car (Kafuku) Official Music Video
Starring : 三浦透子 | Toko Miura
Director, Editor : 濱口竜介 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi
[Track List]
01. Drive My Car
02. Drive My Car (Misaki)
03. Drive My Car (Cassette)
04. Drive My Car (the important thing is to work)
05. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights”
06. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (SAAB 900)
07. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights” (Oto)
08. Drive My Car (Kafuku)
09. Drive My Car (The truth, no matter what it is, isn’t that frightening)
10. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (And when our last hour comes we’ll go quietly）
(with bonus tracks)
11. Drive My Car (Hiroshima)
12. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (different ways)
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石橋英子
『For McCoy』
[LP] Now on Sale
01. I Can Feel Guilty About Anything – Part 1
02. I Can Feel Guilty About Anything – Part 2
03. Ask Me How I Sleep at Night
Now on Sale
[Digitai]
https://ssm.lnk.to/DMCOS
[CD]
PECF-1185
￥2,500円＋tax
[Track List]
01. Drive My Car
02. Drive My Car (Misaki)
03. Drive My Car (Cassette)
04. Drive My Car (the important thing is to work)
05. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights”
06. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (SAAB 900)
07. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights” (Oto)
08. Drive My Car (Kafuku)
09. Drive My Car (The truth, no matter what it is, isn’t that frightening)
10. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (And when our last hour comes we’ll go quietly）
また、濱口監督自身が手掛けた「Drive My Car (Kafuku)」のミュージック・ビデオが本日公開となった。ワンカットのドライブシーンは映画本編のディレクターズ・カットと思える贅沢な映像でもあり、映画本編へと誘う、イントロダクションのようにも感じさせる。ヒロインの寡黙なドライバーみさきを演じる三浦透子の存在感ある佇まいにも注目である。
邂逅すべく宿命にあったと感じる、濱口竜介×石橋英子、2人の映画監督と音楽家による新たな作品が産み落とされた。
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石橋英子 | Eiko Ishibashi | Drive My Car (Kafuku) (Official Audio)
＜曲目＞
01. Drive My Car
02. Drive My Car (Misaki)
03. Drive My Car (Cassette)
04. Drive My Car (the important thing is to work)
05. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights”
06. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (SAAB 900)
07. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights” (Oto)
08. Drive My Car (Kafuku)
09. Drive My Car (The truth, no matter what it is, isn’t that frightening)
10. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (And when our last hour comes we’ll go quietly）
＜CD＞
NEWHERE MUSIC
PECF-1185 / NWM-005
定価：￥2,750 (税抜価格￥2,500)
＜曲目＞
01. Drive My Car
02. Drive My Car (Misaki)
03. Drive My Car (Cassette)
04. Drive My Car (the important thing is to work)
05. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights”
06. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (SAAB 900)
07. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long nights” (Oto)
08. Drive My Car (Kafuku)
09. Drive My Car (The truth, no matter what it is, isn’t that frightening)
10. “We’ll live through the long, long days, and through the long
nights” (And when our last hour comes we’ll go quietly）
Black Truffle is pleased to announce a new solo album by Eiko Ishibashi, her first for the label, following on from the duo recording Ichida alongside bassist Darin Gray. Hyakki Yagyō (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) was produced for the ‘Japan Supernatural’ exhibition at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney focusing on ghost stories and folklore from the Edo period onwards. As with The Dream My Bones Dream (Drag City, 2018), the album is a response to troubling questions about Japanese history, and the influence of the past upon the present, but finds Ishibashi shifting further away from her earlier piano-led songwriting and showing a deepening interest in electronics and audio collaging.
The two sidelong parts of Hyakki Yagyō feature layered synthesisers, acoustic instrumentation, recited verse and field recordings, at times densely mixed but always with a subtle interplay of changing elements. The influence of European and American forerunners as diverse as Alvin Curran, David Behrman and Strafe Für Rebellion can be traced, yet at the same time Ishibashi evokes the flute and string sounds associated with Japanese storytelling, and draws directly on the subversive literary tradition of Kyoka (‘mad poetry’) with a verse by the 15th-century poet Ikkyū Sōjun repeated throughout the album. Revisiting what has gone before, re-thinking what is possible musically, as a way of articulating what else might be possible in the future.
As Ishibashi’s liner notes make clear, the album reflects an attention to persistent dangers, myths and evasions in Japanese culture – as well as the lurking uncertainties that might threaten positive change. This would seem to be manifested in the emerging melodies soon met by dissonance, erratic collisions and near silence, as well as the eerie manipulation of the double-tracked vocals. Ishibashi’s underlying concerns ring true more widely of course. Hyakki Yagyō is a work of multiplicities, and mystery, a landscape where nothing is as it seems at first, and everything is vulnerable to sudden violent interruptions.
The album was produced with regular collaborators Jim O’Rourke (double bass) and Joe Talia (percussion), and features dancer and choreographer Ryuichi Fujimura performing Ikkyū’s satirical tanka. O’Rourke’s immersive mix creates a three-dimensional effect, with Ishibashi’s various sound sources enmeshing and interacting in captivating ways.
Pressed on coloured vinyl and presented in a deluxe package with an inner sleeve featuring an artist portrait and liner notes from Eiko Ishibashi. Cover and label design by Shuhei Abe. Back cover design by Lasse Marhaug. Mixed and mastered by Jim O’Rourke.
