Label: audioMER.

2015年名作を恩田氏より直接入荷、お見逃しなく!!恩田晃 氏、Loren Connors、Alan Lichtによる廃盤共同LP。もともとは恩田氏の写真プロジェクトとしてスタートした[Lost City]。この写真作品を視覚的なスコアとしてスライド投影、それをもとにLoren Connors & Alan Lichtが演奏を行ったのが本作。サイドAはAlan Licht & Loren Connorsのデュオ、サイドBはLoren Connorsのソロとなっており、両サイド共かなり圧迫感の強い濃密でディープな演奏を繰り広げています。ジャケットに使われているインサートは超特大のポスターで、裏側には恩田晃 氏のフォトを大量にプリント。ブックレットも付属します。







audioMER is happy to announce the release of a new LP; Lost City by Aki Onda (US/JP) with music by Loren Connors (US) and Alan Licht (US).

The images were shot in New York between 2001 and 2002. It was during the time when we were still in shock from 9.11. The stars and stripes suddenly became visible everywhere in the city. Soon after, the invasion of Afghanistan started. Everybody was living under an indefinable fear - not knowing what would happen in the future. (Aki Onda).

Lost City project started as a series of photographs shot by visual artist and composer Aki Onda in New York starting right after 9.11 in 2001. A decisively introspective response to the major world event taking place, his pictures were devoid of direct references, but documented his immediate surroundings, focusing on how what happened resonated on a personal micro-level.
Since 2005, Onda has been presenting this series as slide projections, which function as a visual score for improvisation, and performing with NYC avant-garde musicians Loren Connors and Alan Licht. Two improvisations on this LP were recorded at Anthology Film Archives in NYC in 2007.
Lost City contains the vinyl, a folded 20 x 30 inch poster with the complete photograph series and an A4 risoprinted booklet containing the accompanying text written by NYC based curator/writer Niels Van Tomme.
The record's A side is a duo piece between Connors and Licht that consists of wandering, buzzing guitar drones with occasional noisy eruptions. It highlights the almost twin-like connection between the longtime collaborators, with telepathic intersecting guitar lines and a sense of unease seeping through. The B side is Connors solo and is a very lyrical and atmospheric ambient piece that is equally sparse and spacious. The LP is limited to 350 copies and distributed by N.E.W.S.