Label: By the Bluest of Seas

ゲートフォールド・ジャケット+8ページ・フォトブックレット付き!!2000年代初頭、国内外を問わず多くの実験音楽家が集う場所であった六本木SuperDeluxe。2006年に同会場で行われたライブ・コラボレーションより生まれたデュオ、町田良夫とCal Lyallによる2枚組10インチタイトル[Premeditation]。様々なコラボ形態を経た後スタンダード・チューニングと作曲要素を備えた音色的アプローチへと移行、本作ではスティールパン、スリットドラム、バンジョーという珍しい組み合わせを用い、ミニマルな音階パターンに基づいた構造的アイデアを展開。







double 10" vinyl / gatefold / 8 pages photographic booklet

In the early 2000s, Tokyo's SuperDeluxe was a meeting point for many experimental musicians, both international and Japanese. This duo sprung from a live collaboration at the venue in 2006, where Machida was experimenting with processed steel pan and Lyall was largely performing using a tabletop guitar setup with a range of electronics. Many subsequent encounters were heavily experimental, ranging from densely layered noise music to sound collage.

Through the years, the collaboration shifted to a more tonal approach, with standard tunings and stronger compositional elements. Both musicians have a deep interest in traditional improvisational forms, so there was a natural evolution towards structural ideas—based on minimal scalar patterns—as the sound became more acoustic. The most recent instrumentation explores the unusual combination of steel pan, slit drums and banjo, while also delving deeper into the characteristics of the instruments themselves.