Tetuzi Akiyama - Thaumaturgy

Tetuzi Akiyama - ThaumaturgyThe intimacy of Akiyamas Thaumaturgy is immense. In nine short through composed pieces written over a ten year period, Akiyama captures something melodic, simple, and utterly transfixing. In his first instrumental solo acoustic guitar record in more than a decade, Akiyama, widely known for his improvisatory collaborations as well as his hypnotizing boogie drone guitar pieces, here works without effects and maintains a strict harmonic palette

Moments of calm and sweetness also reveal William’s fragility and confusion

Last Light shines differently from it's members' respective pasts – it is not the earth rending blaze of Glory Fckn Sun

bass clarinet bell

He’s worked with Jim O’Rourke

the intricate

Recorded in a year in which the artist worked in Lithuania

Using the natural resonance and harmonics of these two instruments to influence their introspective interactions

the band would live

an increase of fear

tape loops

(Alasdair Roberts)

fragments of melody and rhythm thread their way across the album’s length only to be broken and undermined by interventions into the tape onto which they were laid