7) Chihei Hatakeyama - Alchemy

Artist: Chihei Hatakeyama Track: Alchemy Album: Mirror Label: Room 40 Released: Aug 2011 Tokyo’s Chihei Hatakeyama specializes in multi-dimensional ambience. Mirror is the sound of sounds reflecting off of sounds, a slow floating funhouse of convex aural mirrors. The album consists of four long, flowing soundscapes intercut with a series of environmental field recordings, audio verite snippets a/la Luc Ferrari. (One of them is titled ’July 4, 2008’ — somebody get Greil Marcus on the phone). The field reco