Wabi Sabi

* Second release on Piano Piano from Sven Wunder * Appeals to both psych and prog listeners, folk or jazz aficionados and as well the gourmet hip hop connoisseurs By welcoming the beauty of imperfection and simplicity, Sven Wunder applies the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi on this musical journey. What you can hear is filtered through Ukiyo-e (which translates as 'pictures of the floating world'), which illustrates everyday life, as well as through Japonism, the study of Japanese art, and more specifically its influence on European works. The result is a surface that creates an illusion by sound. The infusion of Min?y? with jazz rock, this hazy scene evokes the landscape of Monet?s 'The Water Lily Pond', which depicts the painter?s Giverny garden, with a Japanese bridge, bamboo, ginkgo trees and the reflection of the sky in the pond. This illusion constructs both time and space. The surface of the music, like the canvas of the painting, invents a journey between now and then by interpreting the idiom of folkloric and western art instruments. In this composition, the sound of the Western concert flute, which stretches back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, evokes the sound of the bamboo-flute ('shakuchachi'), which reached its peak during the Edo period. The guzheng, also known as the Chinese zither, with a more than 2,500 year history, joins traditional Japanese folk melodies with modern pop percussion and 20th century electronic instruments such as the Moog synthesizer

Tracks

1~1~Yu?Gen
1~2~Shinrinyoku
1~3~Hot Winds Arrive
1~4~Hanami
1~5~Komorebi
1~6~Blanket Fog Descends
1~7~Wabi Sabi
1~8~Bamboo And Rocks
1~9~Kacho?Fu?Getsu
1~10~Onsen
1~11~North Wind Rattles The Leaves

Details

Format: Vinyl LP
Artist: Wunder, Sven
Release Date: 12 June 2020
Genre: World Music
Label: PIANO PIANO
Distributor: Rocket Group