Tori Kudo – Studio village Hototoguiss 2007-2022

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Matsuyama 

Matsuyama in Ehime is the birthplace of haiku, and to this day, haiku submission boxes are placed around town. Young people gather in a haiku society-like manner. In other words, they observe and contemplate well, but their approach is generally instant, casual, and somewhat careless. There is a local disposition here, which they call “yomoda” in the dialect—a blend of humor and sadness. It’s as if they pretend to agree to demands in a laid-back way, all while delaying the big decision. It’s a matter related to the moment and ethics.

Near the famous Dogo Onsen is Studio Village Hototogisu, named after the magazine Hototogisu started by Masaoka Shiki, the father of haiku. The studio was once a large psychiatric hospital, which Mr. Tsuru, the owner, completely remodeled, turning the third floor into his music studio. Tsuru-san is both a psychiatrist and an avid enthusiast of  classic rock. He’s a broad-minded adult who also accepts my type of music. About once or twice a month, I randomly select an instrument or device from his vast collection, gathers whoever happens to be around, usually his family, and in about two hours, we record and mix a piece. This album is a compilation of those recordings. The album label is designed after Matsuyama’s specialty confection, “Ichiroku Tart.”

From around the time of the pandemic, I started layering his dobro guitar or mandolin over my tracks on purpose. The mainstream and the fringe—once opposing camps—merged after this pandemic, a convergence in rock history that’s etched on side D of this album, reflecting the current global situation.

Could a society of free-verse haiku poets sharing both love and resentment for Matsuyama be possible? It’s a question that touches on the future course of nationalism.

• – Tori

45 painstakingly selected tracks from various sources: published/unpublished/digital only/cassettes/cdr all recorded at Studio village Hototoguiss

2 vinyl gatefold jacket
Co-released with Archeion. If you are in Asia please order from them! https://archeion.base.shop/items/94242142

You will receive a bandcamp download code with each purchase, including bonus tracks.

side a
1. 曇天バスケットボール basket-ball nuageux
2. serotonin
3. machination in your days
4. lickin’ up the dust
5. miss you my baby doll
6. 妄想特急カムイ kamuy express délirant
7. 鬼火(ほおづきおとこ) le feu follet
8. 下鴨 yugue にて à shimogamo yugue
9. 春 printemps
10. switch back
11. 港の人(北村太郎) personne du port(texte: taro kitamura)
12. à la musique (schubert)
13. river song (donovan)
14. some of these days (brooks)

side b
1. i’ll keep it with mine (dylan)
2. le testament I
3. trois pommes
4. net cafe mystery
5. 休日出勤 travail de vacances
6. job2011
7. fridays
8.too many wives
9. el nombre

side c
1. the world is your oyster
2ricochet
3. la vue
4. 台風一過～岬を回って Passage du typhon～De l’autre côté du cap.
5, what if i never speede (dowland)
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6. 改変期（jutok kaneko）période de changement
7. ai ai gomteira (akira ifukube)
8.それをやめれば Si tu arrête de faire ça
9. these days
10. pour jaki liebezeit
11.les barricades mystereuses（couperin）

side d
1. マックの店長で une femme qui travaillait comme gérante chez mcdonald’s
2.すっからかん節 l’air des sans le sou
3.とうとうお金が無くなってきた je suis enfin à court d’argent
4. 2020
5. 平 た い 厳 粛 な 家 maison solennelle plate
6.まだ生きている人々 des gens qui sont encore en vie
7. 記憶に残るわんこ Un toutou mémorable
8.light of love (bolan)
9. b-heart #-earth
10 why are we sitting here until we die?
11. beethoven symphonie n°7 2e mouvement

recorded and mixed by Tsuru Mitsumune at Village Hototoguiss Studio
mastered by Julien Louvet

prepared for graphic printing by Emilie Demarquay

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