Tokyo Transit by Gandavon

This album was inspired by photos of architecture in Tokyo, most of them shot by British photographer Keith Collie.

From my days as an art student, I retained an eye for the curious and artistic modern. Modern art is not so much hindered by considerations of 'beauty' and indeed, I don't think the architecture that inspired Tokyo Transit is persé. Perhaps I would not say that about the album itself either, since it centers on how fleeting even something as hard, solid and concrete as a city can seem to us, who are soft and passing all the time; from left to right, going places...from yesterday to today and then to tomorrow, into the future.

Yes, the city itself changes continuously too. There is an ongoing conversation between wants and needs of human beings and the being of the city itself. That is why the theme ís beauty....but of this transitory nature; not the idea itself so much. Not this time.

秋風に
構造物間の交通音
束の間の会話

In the autumn breeze
Sound of traffic between structures
Short-lived conversation

(Haiku written as best as I could)

The music on this album is difficult to put in any one box, but if I had to describe it, I'd say it's in the realm of new age/jazz/electro/glitch/ambient.

Gandavon is the alias of William Higgins, a British-Dutch synth/acoustic audiovisual alchemist weaving sonic and visual tapestries from his shed studio in Northern Limburg, Netherlands.