Between The Leaves, by Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa

Between The Leaves

by Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa

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J Glenn Taylor A beautifully haunted LP. I love the distant drifts and the extra spacey melodies just right for gazing at that thing I was just thinking about. Well done, Thanks.

Steve Mahoney A Masterwork release from Pepo Galan and Shinji Wakasa. A superb package from Fluid Audio. A fabulous ambient album.

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Between The Leaves' sees the 'Book Editions' series return. Beautiful vintage books have been cut up, re-assembled and re-structured into book-bound CD covers, once again highlighting the theme of fragility within the series. Each edition will also feature delicate prints, old library cards, stamps, book-marks, vintage slides, old photos, vintage negatives, page inserts, etc. Each copy a complete original... 150 for the world!

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1 x Vintage (circa:1889-1952) hardback clothbound book (re-assembled / book binding taped together into CD covers

1 x Glass mastered CD (Not CDR)

15-20 Pages of writing / images

20 x A7 polaroid prints on luxury uncoated paper (designed by Craig Tattersall)

1 x Stamped library card

2 x Vintage photographs

1 x Vintage book-mark

1 x Vintage numbered photo negative resting inside original waxed bag

1 x Vintage 35mm slide

1 x Incense

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All of the above rests inside Japanese wax bags

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Between The Leaves is a slow-burning stunner from Pepo Galán and Shinji Wakasa. In 2019, both musicians decided to collaborate on a new album, one with free experimentation ‘without corrections or technicalities’ first and foremost. At its heart, Between The Leaves revolves around Pepo’s improvised minimalist pianos and Shinji’s ambient manipulations and additional tweaks. The ambient atmosphere traces itself around the piano and its cool, washed-out notes, never interfering, only adding (the perfect template for an excellent team). Both of these elements turn the music into something of a magic spell, ‘a journey through…the most hidden forests of Japan to a botanical garden in southern Spain’.

Shinji’s field recordings include a toy piano, which was left in a decaying warehouse, as well as the sound of rain beside a small pond and an old guitar. The sounds are like those from a leafy glade, and they’re inextricably attached to the self, chained to a vault of personal and unique memories. Nothing can disentangle a specified sound from its remembered episode. As the mind rewinds, the music starts to play. It could be a song on the radio, triggering a recollection, or a random melody spluttering from a decades-old area of the mind, rising from a graveyard of misheard lyrics and catchy tunes. No matter what it may be, the music is tied to a singular event, and the same is true of Between The Leaves.

Textures remain thin throughout the album, with its ambient slivers providing a damp bedrock. Consisting of a leaky piano and subtle, mutating tones, the music is allowed to breathe thanks to its emphasis on experimentation, but it still feels tight and well-managed. Nothing is out of bounds, but that’s not to say that things get too crazy. On the contrary, Pepo and Shinji understand the importance of musical context and the value of consistent tonality. They keep it somewhat restrained in its recollections and evocations, which only adds to its beauty.
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released June 2, 2021

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Music: Pepo Galán & Shinji Wakasa
Mastering: Lee Yi (Rottenman Editions)
Print design: Craig Tattersall
Packaging design: Daniel Crossley

www.fluid-radio.co.uk/2021/06/pepo-galan-shinji-wakasa-between-the-leaves/

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released September 10, 2021

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Pepo Galán Spain

Pepo Galán is a composer, multi-Instrumentalist and producer born in Malaga. His compositions create a characteristic sound with micro-textures, noisy environments and melancholic melodies charged with beauty, sensitivity and elegance.

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