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Anecdote

by Motohiko Hamase

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Walter Campbell
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Walter Campbell Had not heard of Motohiko Hamase prior to this, but I still purchased this LP after listening for the first time. An exceptional performance that will likely become one of my (and your) favorite live recordings. Favorite track: Aborigine.
David Orr
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David Orr Hamase's music is like watching a city grow and change with its environment, plants and fungi and lichens and animals adapting, the city adapting to them in turn, and on and on. You can speed it up, slow it down, and reverse it, and when you're done you don't know how much time you've spent taking it all in. Hamase's fretless bass dances among the construction equipment and ruins and rocks and trees. It's a heck of a thing! Favorite track: Plateau.
Deferent Golgi
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Deferent Golgi A virtuoso amalgam of electronic ambient and jazz improv, unearthly and sci-fi-ish in its strangeness, yet also it builds a sense of sunlit, warm, nonthreatening spaces and seems ultimately to convey wonder and optimism in the face of the physical world and its mysteries. Favorite track: Anecdote.
World of Echo
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World of Echo Any time ambient, electronic, and jazz are combined--you know I'm down.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Ambient / Jazz / Electronic
    A Collection of Sensitive Improvisations Recorded Live at Spiral Garden, Tokyo, June 12 1987
    Includes Special Versions of Tracks from #Notes of Forestry, Reminiscence, and Intaglio
    Very Rare Work from MOTOHIKO HAMASE
    With Liner Notes
    Reissued in Conjunction with Hamase’s #Notes of Forestry and Technodrome albums
    From the ESPLANADE_SERIES
    An Archival Focus on Yoshio Ojima, Satsuki Shibano, and Motohiko Hamase

    Motohiko Hamase – Electric fretless bass, synthesizers and computer programming
    Toshio Kaji – Acoustic piano, synthesizers
    Yasunori Yamaguchi – Acoustic percussions

    All compositions by Motohiko Hamase except “Duplicated Scene” and “Plateau” by Toshio Kaji
    Digital Live Recording, June 12, 1987 at Spiral Garden, Aoyama, Tokyo
    Live Mixing: Hiromi Ishii
    Mastering Studio Hitokuchizaka Studio, Tokyo, Jan 8, 1993
    Mastering Engineer: T. Ogawa
    Cover Photo: Naruaki Ohnishi
    Newly Mastered at Quiet Chamber Studio, 2018
    Engineered by Rei Shimizu
    Cover Design: Motohiko Hamase
    Produced by Motohiko Hamase
    Liner notes by Motohiko Hamase

    Includes unlimited streaming of Anecdote via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Ambient / Jazz / Electronic
    A Collection of Sensitive Improvisations Recorded Live at Spiral Garden, Tokyo, June 12 1987
    Includes Special Versions of Tracks from #Notes of Forestry, Reminiscence, and Intaglio
    Very Rare Work from MOTOHIKO HAMASE
    Never Released on Vinyl Before
    With Liner Notes
    Reissued in Conjunction with Hamase’s #Notes of Forestry and Technodrome albums
    From the ESPLANADE_SERIES
    An Archival Focus on Yoshio Ojima, Satsuki Shibano, and Motohiko Hamase

    Side A

    1. Anecdote 8:47
    2. Aborigine 4:36
    3. Lung 6:34

    Side B

    1. Intermezzo 5:33
    2. Symptom 4:56
    3. Circlet 5:35

    Side C

    1. Reminiscence 5:35
    2. Élan Vital 6:05
    3. Pascal variant 6:35

    Side D

    1. Intaglio 7:31
    2. Duplicated Scene 4:52
    3. Plateau 4:49

    Motohiko Hamase – Electric fretless bass, synthesizers and computer programming
    Toshio Kaji – Acoustic piano, synthesizers
    Yasunori Yamaguchi – Acoustic percussions

    All compositions by Motohiko Hamase except “Duplicated Scene” and “Plateau” by Toshio Kaji
    Digital Live Recording, June 12, 1987 at Spiral Garden, Aoyama, Tokyo
    Live Mixing: Hiromi Ishii
    Mastering Studio Hitokuchizaka Studio, Tokyo, Jan 8, 1993
    Mastering Engineer: T. Ogawa
    Cover Photo: Naruaki Ohnishi
    Newly Mastered at Quiet Chamber Studio, 2018
    Engineered by Rei Shimizu
    Cover Design: Motohiko Hamase
    Produced by Motohiko Hamase
    Liner notes by Motohiko Hamase

    Includes unlimited streaming of Anecdote via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Purchasable with gift card

      €30 EUR

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  • Motohiko Hamase - Anecdote (Double LP) TEST PRESSING
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    7 copies

    Includes unlimited streaming of Anecdote via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Test Pressing SIGNED BY MOTOHIKO HAMASE DLP (Edition of 15) // For Cat Shelter
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Money goes to the cat shelter!
    Collector's item // Motohiko Hamase #Notes of Forestry LP TEST PRESSING signed by Motohiko Hamase // Only 15 available // Only here

    Includes unlimited streaming of Anecdote via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Anecdote 08:49
2.
Aborigine 04:39
3.
Lung 06:38
4.
Intermezzo 05:36
5.
Symptom 04:59
6.
Circlet 05:38
7.
Reminiscence 05:40
8.
Élan Vital 06:08
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Intaglio 07:30
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12.
Plateau 04:51

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Ambient / Jazz / Electronic
A Collection of Sensitive Improvisations Recorded Live at Spiral Garden, Tokyo, June 12 1987
Includes Special Versions of Tracks from #Notes of Forestry, Reminiscence, and Intaglio
Very Rare Work from MOTOHIKO HAMASE
Never Released on Vinyl Before
With Liner Notes
Reissued in Conjunction with Hamase’s #Notes of Forestry and Technodrome albums
From the ESPLANADE_SERIES
An Archival Focus on Yoshio Ojima, Satsuki Shibano, and Motohiko Hamase

WRWTFWW Records is proud to announce the official reissue of Motohiko Hamase’s extremely rare live album Anecdote (recorded in 1987). The album is sourced from original masters and available on vinyl (double LP) for the first time ever as well as on CD. It comes with liner notes from the artist. This marks the sixth release from the ESPLANADE SERIES which focuses on the works of Yoshio Ojima, Motohiko Hamase and Satsuki Shibano.

Anecdote was recorded live June 12th 1987 at Spiral Garden (Wacoal Art Center) in Aoyama (Tokyo) as part of the Eat Newsic Concert No.3. Motohiko Hamase on electric fretless bass, synthesizers and computer programming, is accompanied by frequent collaborators Toshio Kaji on acoustic piano and synthesizers, and Yasunori Yamaguchi (of #Notes of Forestry fame) on acoustic percussions. The three-man band improvises around Hamase’s unique repertoire of ambient and electronic music, reinterpreting pieces from his albums Reminiscence, Intaglio, and #Notes of Forestry.

It’s environmental and minimalist experiments with a jazz soul, three brilliant musicians flowing to blissful heights, and a beautiful testament to the 80s Japanese ambient scene that gave birth to seminal releases by Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa, Yutaka Hirose and many more. Essential.

The live album came out on CD only in 1993 on Motohiko Hamase’s Lung Records. It is now reissued in conjunction with his #Notes of Forestry and Anecdote albums, all coming out May 29th 2020.

Side A

1. Anecdote 8:47
2. Aborigine 4:36
3. Lung 6:34

Side B

1. Intermezzo 5:33
2. Symptom 4:56
3. Circlet 5:35

Side C

1. Reminiscence 5:35
2. Élan Vital 6:05
3. Pascal variant 6:35

Side D

1. Intaglio 7:31
2. Duplicated Scene 4:52
3. Plateau 4:49

Motohiko Hamase – Electric fretless bass, synthesizers and computer programming
Toshio Kaji – Acoustic piano, synthesizers
Yasunori Yamaguchi – Acoustic percussions

All compositions by Motohiko Hamase except “Duplicated Scene” and “Plateau” by Toshio Kaji
Digital Live Recording, June 12, 1987 at Spiral Garden, Aoyama, Tokyo
Live Mixing: Hiromi Ishii
Mastering Studio Hitokuchizaka Studio, Tokyo, Jan 8, 1993
Mastering Engineer: T. Ogawa
Cover Photo: Naruaki Ohnishi
Newly Mastered at Quiet Chamber Studio, 2018
Engineered by Rei Shimizu
Cover Design: Motohiko Hamase
Produced by Motohiko Hamase
Liner notes by Motohiko Hamase

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released May 15, 2020

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