KK026
cat#
KK026
title:
Physis
artist:
Opitope
time:
44' 28"
format:
CD

tracklist

1.
An White Drop Of Morning Dew
mp3
2.
Light Blue Mist And Ripple
3.
Warmth Of Winter Woods
mp3
4.
The Dawn Of Memories

After 2 years of silence, the Tokyo SPEKK label returns with a new packaging.

First up in the next new series of SPEKK is an album by Tokyo duo Opitope. Opitope is a duo by ambient master Chihei Hatakeyama and Tomoyoshi Date (from Illuha) and their 1st album Hau is still one of the best sellers in the SPEKK catalog. Physis is their 2nd album following their session recording album A Colony of Kuala Mute Geeks which was taken with their fellow musicians, and 7 years after the glorious Hau album. Physis was entitled with the meaning of invisible generating power within the nature, and they have created 4 long stories (the concept of Opitope compositions are to produce tracks with imaginative stories) with poetic names. Comparing to the Hau songs, you can easily find development in their production skills including recording, editing and mixing. And most remarkable is their songwriting. If you hear these 4 pieces on a headphone, not only you will be astonished by the detailed sounds, but they will also give you different impressions each time .. and the rest is up to you to perceive and construct your own story. Lastly, this album was mainly produced after that terrible earthquake in Northeast Japan (2011), and whereas the story of Hau was a journal of travelling from the south to north, Physis is a story of the destructed earth with just ruins and no signs of human beings, but gradually recovering from itfs soil into the usual green paradise. Simply breathtaking.