Label: LAAPS

スロベニアの西部、イタリアとの国境にある町ノヴァ・ゴリツァを拠点とする音楽家Aiko Takahashi。2023年に姉妹レーベルIIKKIからソロアルバム[It Could Have Been A Beautiful]を発表、本作はLAAPSの2025年タイトルとして出版された2年振りとなるアルバム[The Grass Harp]。川沿いの静かな場所にある自身のスタジオにてLAAPSの為に録音した音源であり、大部分はテープデッキ/テープループを通して作られたサウンドスケープ。ハンドナンバリング入り、限定150。









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• Glass mastered CD + pantone
• Digisleeve : white cardboard 300 gm
• Outside : x 1 adhesive glossy paper
• Inside : thick paper card + x 1 sticker
• Hand numbered, limited edition to 150 copies, sealed
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Aiko Takahashi is a Nova Gorica-based musician, a spirit that has released albums on various labels. Just like the line that separates the two cities where Aiko lives, Gorizia and Nova Gorica, divided between two countries yet united as one, Aiko’s music exists on a boundary. A line that separates silence from peculiar, almost imperceptible sounds. Too quiet to be Ambient, too Ambient to be Sound Art.

Two years ago, after a first complete release on IIKKI with "It Could Have Been A Beautiful", Aiko Takahashi comes back with a second complete album, this time, on LAAPS.

"This album is a delicate, meditative collection recorded between March and November 2024 in Aiko's former studio, a secluded spot near the River Isonzo, between Gorizia and Nova Gorica in Slovenia. The Grass Harp was made specifically for LAAPS, who asked Aiko to create a new complete piece of sounds. As always, it was largely recorded using dense layers of manipulated loops that weave in and out of the recordings, shaping them in a singular way through effects pedals, tape decks, and tape loops. The Grass Harp is a meditation on decay and silence, blending warm soundscapes with soft, playful melodies. That’s Aiko’s signature sound."