Shinobu Nemoto – Melting Loop Trip (Resting Bell, 2010)

1. Trip 1
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Shinobu Nemoto is a sound-artist from Kanagawa, Japan. You might know “Summons of Shining Ruins”, his solo-guitar project or “Dark Side of The Audio System “, a tape-loop-experiment. Under his real name Shinobu Nemoto mainly releases guitar-improvisations and field-recordings. He also runs the label “MOUFU-ROKUON“ and did collaborations with Brain Grainger, Jason Adams and Danielle Demos.

“Melting Loop Trip“ is a collection of sixteen loops, each loop between six and thirteen minutes long. Each loop is a beautiful analog picture. Very athmospheric, very warm and very, very meditative. You can fall back into a cloudy bed of hushed noises, shimmering melodies and wonderful echo-structures.

You can go ahead, pick your favorite loop and listen to it on repeat. Or you can listen to the complete release from track to track. In addition to Shinobu’s musical output illustrator Kati Meden created an artwork-concept for the complete release as well as for every single loop based on her colour-alphabet.
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Summons Of Shining Ruins - Summons Of Shining Ruins (Install, 2008)

01 Boy Is Surrounded By Old Friends And Stopping At Loggia, It Seem To Be The Mausoleum Built From Early Time For Him 11:26
02 Facade Was Burnt Down, Glass Cracks Innumerably And Diffused Reflection, How Did I Come Here? 11:42
03 Summons Of Shining Ruins 11:23
04 Golden Road, Flower Bloomed All Over, It Was Only It And Quiet 9:26
05 Appearance Had Changed A Little When I Awoke, Understood It, I Was Left 8:26
06 Strange Shine Between Existence And Nothing 7:15
07 Job's Letter Was Not Opened 7:54
08 God's Nation / God's People 6:42

Very rarely do we hear an album that sounds so emotionally complicated that you're almost drawn to tears over how frail it is, and how lucky you are to hear it. Summons Of Shining Ruins is such an experience. Shinobu Nemoto treads a charred black landscape, picking up burnt fragments of his childhood and carefully threading them together into a hazy history for us to observe. Being a collector of all sorts of vintage recording equipment, this album is a massive display of Shinobu's masterful way with guitars and tapes. There is a prevailing sadness in this album, almost like Nemoto has resigned himself to an eternity of loss and decay, completely and utterly tethered to a void that overtakes everything. A brilliantly evocative trip that would definitely appeal to fans of Birchville Cat Motel, Boris and Tim Hecker. Limited edition of 100 copies with stunning photography by Jason Adams.
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Shinobu Nemoto - Improvisation Air 2 (Install, 2010)

1 10:49 13 June 2010 16:12
2 10:21 15 June 2010 16:11
3 15:24 15 June 2010 11:53
4 18:12 15 June 2010 12:41

The second of two volumes of improvisations by Japanese experimental musician Shinobu Nemoto, who also records under the names Summons Of Shining Ruins and Dark Side Of The Audio System. He has released two records with INSTALL in the past: Summons Of Shining Ruins s/t and Dispel Space Time Lust (a collaboration with Jason Adams). He has collaborated with Danielle Demos, Brian Grainger, Jason Adams, Wood-Land and VCV, and maintains his own personal label Moufu-Rokuon as well. On IMPROVISATION AIR, Shinobu showcases a deep damp humid airiness through the form of foggy drones and warped tonal atmospheres. Exclusive to the INSTALL Digital Archive and sure to be a favorite for new listeners and existing fans of Shinobu's work.
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Shinobu Nemoto - Improvisation Air 1 (Install, 2010)

1 22:04 27 Nov. 2009 15:17
2 17:14 28 Nov. 2009 13:57
3 18:56 28 Nov. 2009 12:25
4 18:34 28 Nov. 2009 11:22

The first of two volumes of improvisations by Japanese experimental musician Shinobu Nemoto, who also records under the names Summons Of Shining Ruins and Dark Side Of The Audio System. He has released two records with INSTALL in the past: Summons Of Shining Ruins s/t and Dispel Space Time Lust (a collaboration with Jason Adams). He has collaborated with Danielle Demos, Brian Grainger, Jason Adams, Wood-Land and VCV, and maintains his own personal label Moufu-Rokuon as well. On IMPROVISATION AIR, Shinobu showcases a deep damp humid airiness through the form of foggy drones and warped tonal atmospheres. Exclusive to the INSTALL Digital Archive and sure to be a favorite for new listeners and existing fans of Shinobu's work.
Install

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