Whisperings by Kei Watanabe
Kei Watanabe (Sri Lanka/Japan) performs ghostly mystifying and electrifying improvisations of found instruments, shuffling loops and odd occurrences. A minimal combination of voice, bells, stringed instruments and electric hums.
This first album is a collection of tracks composed between 2017 and 2021 in Colombo and Berlin.
While recording Kei's sessions in Berlin, we tried to keep her way of working and recording as close as possible from her original style and sound (in Colombo with a cassette recorder, effects and a looper, in Berlin with a computer, looper and some more effects) but without entirely creating a carbon copy of her previous compositions.
Tracklist
| 1. | Wild flowers, We don't grow in labs | 4:04 |
| 2. | Lila | 4:47 |
| 3. | A whole in my heart | 8:58 |
| 4. | Where sleeping pigeons lay | 4:57 |
| 5. | Mermaid Bones | 5:32 |
| 6. | Born in a lemon basket | 6:08 |
Credits
All instruments, voice and live effects : Kei Watanabe.
Track 2 and 3 recorded by Kei Watanabe.
Track 1, 4, 5, 6 recorded, mixed and edited by Cedrik Fermont.
Mastering : Cedrik Fermont at Syrphe.
Cover concept and design (wood block) : Sharon Tan.
Digital cover editing : Cedrik Fermont.
Cover wood block printing : Cedrik Fermont.
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Catalogue number : S032
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Syrphe is a platform mostly but not exclusively focused onto experimental, electronic, free improvisation, electroacoustic, sound art, electronica, noise music from Asia and Africa.
Records are published, lectures and sometimes concerts are given, monthly radio shows, news about alternative artists from Africa, Asia and Latin America and my own projects.