- LP
- Recommended =
- New Release
Interior / NILS-UDO
Sculpture of Time (Apocalypse)
WRWTFWW
- Cat No: wrwtfww075
- 2024-10-10
細野 晴臣プロデュースの82年YENからのアルバムやWINDHAM HILLからのリリースでお馴染みの日本のニューエイジ、環境音楽の名グループInteriorのレアな音源を〈WRWTFWW〉がアナログ化。
Track List
WRWTFWW Records is happy to further its collaboration with Japanese electronic/ambient group Interior by releasing their never-heard-before soundtrack for environmental artist NILS-UDO’s 1987 Laserdisc Sculpture of Time (Apocalypse). The intriguing sound design/kankyo ongaku/new age album is available as a limited edition LP housed in a heavyweight 350gsm sleeve and comes with a obi strip. It is also available in digital format.
In 1987, Intermission published a Japan-only Laserdisc showcasing one hour of works created by renowned German environmental artist NILS-UDO. To accompany the visuals, they commissioned electronic music group Interior, fresh off their Haroumi Hosono-produced self-titled debut (also available on WRWTFWW Records) and their Windham Hill Records-released sophomore album Design. For the first time ever, the soundtrack is now available in full HD glory, demonstrating Daisuke Hinata, Eiki Nonaka, Mitsuru Sawamura, and Tsukasa Betto’s precise, subtle, and spellbinding approach to ambient sound design.
Calming nature sounds, ritualistic synths, meditative atmospheres, and eruptive forays into darker territories mesh superbly in a 4-part soundscape that flirts with oeuvres such Midori Takada’s Through The Looking Glass and Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green, making Sculpture of Time one of one of the best kept secrets of kankyo ongaku – a must have for mystery hunters and levitating music lovers.
Sculpture of Time (Apocalypse) follows WRWTWW’s reissue of Interior’s debut album and precedes the upcoming release of Tarzanland, band member Daisuke Hinata’s pitch perfect solo from 1989.
Points of interests
For fans of ambient, environmental, experimental, meditative, sound design, synthesizers, art, mysterious albums, never released music, Midori Takada, Hiroshi Yoshimura, rituals, burning wood, Laserdiscs, wondering where the world is going.
First ever release of the soundtrack created by Japanese kankyo ongaku unit Interior for environmental artist NILS-UDO on limited edition LP.
1987年に環境音楽、環境アートに取り組む現代美術作家ニルス=ウドの彫刻作品を自然の中で展示した映像作品のための音楽をInteriorに依頼して制作したレザーディスクの音源をWRWTFWWがアナログ化。「静謐な自然音、儀式的なシンセ、瞑想的なアトモスフィア、ダークな領域への噴火的な進入が、高田みどりの『Through The Looking Glass』や吉村弘の『Green』といった作品に通じる4部構成のサウンドスケープで見事にかみ合い、『Sculpture of Time』は環境音楽の秘宝のひとつとなっている。」 (サイトウ)