AKHIRA SANO - TO MATERIAL PAST

1. Momentary
2. Celebratory
3. Visionary
4. Customary
5. Imaginary
6. Ordinary

A beautiful release from Japanese multi-disciplinary artist Akhira Sano, who serves up the six track 'To Material Past' on the London-based (and Kaninhål favourite) Swims Records. Delicate and reflective - a really warming piece of music and well packaged as cassette format. 

Notes from the label - 

Akhira Sano is a Tokyo-based artist working across sound, drawing, installation, and video. His practice finds generative potential for music in life's fleeting incidents, etching meaning from unassuming spaces and resonances. With releases on 12k, LAAPS, IIKKI, and The Trilogy Tapes, Sano has steadily carved out a distinctive voice within minimal and experimental music - one that privileges attentiveness and patience over spectacle.

"To Material Past", Sano's debut for SWIMS, carries this thread with a 30-minute expedition built solely using glockenspiel tones and field recordings from his local neighbourhood. This is a night walk with no map or end point; Sano follows irregular, coiling fragments that extend to form a tessellating luminous whole - like a subliminal mass of tree roots quietly shifting the concrete slabs beneath our feet.

Under this faded gauze of gestures and interactions, Sano's glockenspiel interjects like a grandfather clock, softly marking the partitions that make up a day's collected experience; clicking and chiming like the sleeping brain, as it sifts and catalogues a lifetime's ephemera of thoughts, faces and puzzles.

If you like this, why not check out our other ambient music releases, as well as other music from Swims Records.