Label: Black Sweat Records

Celestial Harmoniesの隠れ名作がLP化!!オリジナルは2002年、多くの名作コンテンポラリー・アンビエント作品群で知られる米Celestial HarmoniesよりCD出版。芝祐靖が創設&主宰する雅楽演奏団体"伶楽舎（れいがくしゃ）"の音源[Gagaku Suites]がイタリアBlack Sweat Recordsより初めての2LP化。本作に収録された楽曲は5世紀から9世紀にかけて中国の楽曲より取りいれたレパートリーを反映しており、龍笛や篳篥による息遣いが笙が醸し出す催眠/幻惑的雰囲気と相まって、時間が停止したかのような空間を作り出す。リマスター仕様。









Gagaku is the oldest of the Japanese performing arts, with a history more than a thousand years old. The term refers to Japanese classical music and dance, traditionally performed by families of musicians linked to the ancient Imperial court, and later passed down in Buddhist temple ceremonies and Shinto shrines. Shiba Sukeyasu, founder and director of the Reigakusha ensemble, descends from the Koma clan, whose origins date back to the end of the 10th century. The recordings partly reflect repertoires borrowed from Chinese music between the 5th and 9th centuries. The incredible variety of timbres of the instruments greatly amplifies our exotic imagination: the eternal breath of the flutes (ryuteki and hichiriki) creates a sort of suspension of time, together with the hypnotic and hallucinatory atmosphere of the mouth organs (shō). The meditative tone of the string instruments (bika and koto) that punctuate the voids and silences is impressive, as is the enigmatic percussion section, with the tolling of the gong (shōko) and the calibrated beats of the drums (taiko and kakko).