Various - Chiky(u)u

Label:

Ash International

Catalog#:

ASH 3.6

Format:

CD, Compilation

Country:

Released:

1997

Genre:

Electronic, Non-Music

Style:

Field Recording, Noise, Experimental, Ambient

Tracklist

-1	Unknown Artist -	Quake	0:50
1	Hatohan -	Eldorado	7:50
2	Utah Kawasaki -	Low Capacitance	3:13
3	MSBR -	The Hollow Sea	3:32
4	Aube -	Crackstratum	8:16
5	Koji Marutani -	Scenes 4	8:31
6	MSBR -	The Hollow Ground	6:37
7	Akira Yamamichi -	Topography I - V (Sand Dust / Limestone Cave / Dead Mine / Crystal Frequency / Magnetic Field)	4:58
8	Toru Yamanaka -	Weathering 2	5:05
9	Tamaru -	Water Margin	5:56
10	Tak++ -	Listening Point 20	8:16

Credits

Compiled By - Koji Marutani , MSCHarding*
Mastered By - Denis Blackham

Notes

Track 4 recorded using only the sounds of The Ground Stones.
Track 5 produced from a field recording made in Minō National Park, Osaka.
Track 9 generated by attaching electrodes to the bank of the Arakawa River.

From the sleevenotes: "This release is the first part of a triptych... Chiky(u)u, Scatter, Decay."

Chikyuu is Japanese for Mother Earth. All material used in the sound pieces is gathered from the earth (stones/water etc) or activity resulting from movement in the earth (earthquakes etc).

Track -1 is hidden before the first track on the CD. It is accessed by holding rewind at the start of Track 1.

After track 10, there follows another 87 untitled index points of silence, lasting 5-20secs each, the idea being that when the CD is played on shuffle, the blank tracks focus you on your own enviroment as a contrast to the recorded enviroments on tracks 1-10.