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Sven Wunder

Wabi Sabi

Piano Piano

PP1002-2

LP Black $30
  • Limited quantity release

Description

By welcoming the beauty of imperfection and simplicity, Sven Wunder applies the timeless wisdom of wabi sabi on this musical journey. What you can hear is filtered through Ukiyo-e (which translates as “pictures of the floating world”), which illustrates everyday life, as well as through Japonism, the study of Japanese art, and more specifically its influence on European works. The result is a surface that creates an illusion by sound. The infusion of Min’yō with jazz rock, this hazy scene evokes the landscape of Monet’s ”The Water Lily Pond”, which depicts the painter’s Giverny garden, with a Japanese bridge, bamboo, ginkgo trees and the reflection of the sky in the pond. This illusion constructs both time and space.

The surface of the music, like the canvas of the painting, invents a journey between now and then by interpreting the idiom of folkloric and western art...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Yūgen
  • 2 Shinrinyoku
  • 3 Hot Winds Arrive
  • 4 Hanami
  • 5 Komorebi
  • 6 Blanket Fog Descends
  • 7 Wabi Sabi
  • 8 Bamboo and Rocks
  • 9 Kachōfūgetsu
  • 10 Onsen
  • 11 North Wind Rattles the Leaves