aus Everis

CAT No. FLAU100/LO224
Release Date: April 26th, 2023
Format: LP/CD/DIGITAL

ausが15年ぶりとなるニューアルバムをイギリスの老舗レコードレーベルLo Recordingsより発表します。「Everis」は、ストリングス、ピアノ、クラリネット、フルート、ドラムなど様々な楽器と声、エレクトロニクスを組み合わせ、モダン・クラシカル、インディー、ジャズ、アバンギャルド、フォークといった異質なジャンルから抜き出したアイデアを包含した美しいサウンドスケープ作品。 日常生活の振動が、親密なフィールドレコーディング、映画のようなストリングス、穏やかさと鋭さとの間を揺れ動く多彩なエレクトロニカと絡み合い、aus史上最もエモーショナルなアルバムに仕上がりました。
2017年に起こった空き巣事件によって、楽曲データを盗難された後、ausは PC上のディテールを追求するのではなく、心の奥底に潜む個人的なストーリーから何かを作り出そうと決心した、といいます。携帯電話に記録されていたビデオやフィールド・レコーディングと組み合わせ、つながりの消えてしまった記憶の間に音楽のシナプスを作り出すことに取り掛かったのです。アルバムには自身が主宰するレーベルFLAUのHenning Schmiedtや高原久実、Noah、Danny Norbury、Emma Gatrillに加え、親交深い日本人アーティストGutevolkと横手ありさ、ECMからもリリースするハルダンゲル・フィドル奏者Benedicte Maurseth、英国の即興音楽家Patrick Farmer、 オーストリアの音響作家Glim、メルボルンのシンガーソングライターGrand Salvoら多彩なゲストが参加。 ミニマリズムの反転と絵描き歌のようなレイヤリングというアイデアによって、パレットの中で混ぜ合わせられた大量の音の破片〜駅の改札、商店街、空港の滑走路、校舎から聴こえる吹奏楽、旅先で出会った民謡など〜、個人的な記憶に関連する日常の断片が古いアナログ機材を通して有機的にコラージュされ、全編アトモスフェリックな美しさを讃えています。

Encompassing ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk; ‘Everis’ is the new album by Tokyo-born composer and producer aus.

Performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics, vibrations of everyday life are intertwined in the music with intimate field recordings, filmic strings and electronica running the gamut from gentle to muscular. The result is a cocktail of sound that illustrates lost memories, unforgotten events and footage from mental archives interpreted through audio. It’s a glittering whirlwind of late-night jazz; etchings of love songs; and dedications to life, organically interlaced with the deft use of vintage equipment, slow-dripped through a filter of cosmopolitanism sensibilities.

Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with only some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.

Fukuzono states: “In doing so, I wanted to show that lost memories exist everywhere, without themselves, and are connected to the present. Like a Ekaki Uta [a Japanese drawing song] I wanted to convey the image of  a circle in which all memories overlap.”

In playing with the idea of inverting minimalism and the Ekaki Uta aesthetic of layering and superimposing individual parts, a palette of samples are merged and manipulated into a state of almost nonrecognition, including train station ticket gates; computer keyboards; airport runways; a brass band practising in a schoolyard; and many other fragments of everyday life that are closely associated with his personal memories.

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Track List

1 Halsar Weiter

2 Landia

3 Past From
4 Steps

5 Make Me Me

6 Flo

7 Swim
8 Memories

9 Further

10 Neanic

Press Quotes

the whole album is just something gorgeous to drift away from everyday life with.Elizabeth Alker, BBC3

a triumph of instinctive creativity – Electronic Sound Magazine

serene and subtle…intricate and immaculateBackseat Mafia

The album is akin to an aural photo book.  As the strings soar to the album’s highest moment, one feels that the harmful parts of the past have been laid to rest, while the treasured memories have been brought to the light. – A Closer Listen

The mood throughout the album, unusually for modern electronica, is marvelously upbeat. There are no moments of introspection. Everything emits light and love. ‘Everis’ is an amazing achievement. – Ban Ban Ton Ton

ambient classical swirlings of melodies stolen by thieves – Higher Plain Music

The Japanese artist nests the resulting sound fragments in an aesthetic form of art, enriches them with facets from various musical genres or structuring synth passages…definitely pursues a visionary approach with his music, this aspect can be found very clearly on “Everis”  – Gezeitenstrom

An organic world, where the ingredients are so intertwined with each other that they lose their origins…The New Noise

playful, open-minded approach into cinematic ambient work – Bandcamp (new & notable)

aus and the trance like, emotional translucence – American Pancake

warped vocals sitting amongst a landscape of thumping kicks and sparsely laid noise and field recordings…beautifully crafted – ADSR Collective

full of textures and expressive sounds that manage to produce emotions in their wake – R Más 

a swirling memory chamber of highly textual and neoclassical instrumentation – Tome To The Weather Machine

Fukuzono’s impeccable musicianship is evident throughout…What a return this is! – Utility Fog (FBi Radio)

aus has been on repeat since first crossing my path. – Alex Kruder, KEXP

a magical, playful, shouldn’t work but somehow smashes it, fusion of  neoclassical, oddball electronics, elegant orchestration, cinematic schmaltz, fragile folk pop vocals & arrangement ambition with a steady stream of WTF moments. – Slow Music Movement

Each track is skillfully infused with its own distinctive electronic touch…It is an album that rewards multiple listens, allowing the listener to explore each track and discover the hidden depths – Twisted Soul

quite experimental, mixing elements of jazz, vocalization and drone to create an enchanting sound – Green Banana

… a genre-bending symphony – Tonspion

enchanting, mysterious, but also fresh – Da Music

techno timbres twist about broken, booming beats, and children’s chants, like some traditional, celebratory, ceremony transported to the future.BBTT

something richer and more elaborate, both in its components (recurring presence of a grainy sound carpet, use of various instruments) and in its technical development (the tracks follow one another, forming a sort of musical continuum) – EtherREAL

美しくて、魅惑的で、しかし不可思議で多様な「音楽」の結晶体 (E王!) – Ele-king

時間という不可解な概念を取り巻く抽象的なエレクトロニカ – Music Tribune

Trevor Jackson played ‘past from’ (from the album Everis) on his NTS Radio show

aus Everis

CAT No. FLAU100/LO224
Release Date: April 26th, 2023
Format: LP/CD/DIGITAL

Track List

1 Halsar Weiter 1 Halsar Weiter

2 Landia

3 Past From 3 Past From
4 Steps 4 Steps

5 Make Me Me

6 Flo

7 Swim 7 Swim
8 Memories 8 Memories

9 Further

10 Neanic 10 Neanic

ausが15年ぶりとなるニューアルバムをイギリスの老舗レコードレーベルLo Recordingsより発表します。「Everis」は、ストリングス、ピアノ、クラリネット、フルート、ドラムなど様々な楽器と声、エレクトロニクスを組み合わせ、モダン・クラシカル、インディー、ジャズ、アバンギャルド、フォークといった異質なジャンルから抜き出したアイデアを包含した美しいサウンドスケープ作品。 日常生活の振動が、親密なフィールドレコーディング、映画のようなストリングス、穏やかさと鋭さとの間を揺れ動く多彩なエレクトロニカと絡み合い、aus史上最もエモーショナルなアルバムに仕上がりました。
2017年に起こった空き巣事件によって、楽曲データを盗難された後、ausは PC上のディテールを追求するのではなく、心の奥底に潜む個人的なストーリーから何かを作り出そうと決心した、といいます。携帯電話に記録されていたビデオやフィールド・レコーディングと組み合わせ、つながりの消えてしまった記憶の間に音楽のシナプスを作り出すことに取り掛かったのです。アルバムには自身が主宰するレーベルFLAUのHenning Schmiedtや高原久実、Noah、Danny Norbury、Emma Gatrillに加え、親交深い日本人アーティストGutevolkと横手ありさ、ECMからもリリースするハルダンゲル・フィドル奏者Benedicte Maurseth、英国の即興音楽家Patrick Farmer、 オーストリアの音響作家Glim、メルボルンのシンガーソングライターGrand Salvoら多彩なゲストが参加。 ミニマリズムの反転と絵描き歌のようなレイヤリングというアイデアによって、パレットの中で混ぜ合わせられた大量の音の破片〜駅の改札、商店街、空港の滑走路、校舎から聴こえる吹奏楽、旅先で出会った民謡など〜、個人的な記憶に関連する日常の断片が古いアナログ機材を通して有機的にコラージュされ、全編アトモスフェリックな美しさを讃えています。

Encompassing ideas plucked from disparate genres such as classical, spiritual jazz, indie, avant-garde and folk; ‘Everis’ is the new album by Tokyo-born composer and producer aus.

Performed on piano, strings, clarinet, flute, voice and electronics, vibrations of everyday life are intertwined in the music with intimate field recordings, filmic strings and electronica running the gamut from gentle to muscular. The result is a cocktail of sound that illustrates lost memories, unforgotten events and footage from mental archives interpreted through audio. It’s a glittering whirlwind of late-night jazz; etchings of love songs; and dedications to life, organically interlaced with the deft use of vintage equipment, slow-dripped through a filter of cosmopolitanism sensibilities.

Following a major burglary at his home/studio and label HQ, from which he lost his entire catalogue of completed and work-in-progress music, Fukuzono decided to create something away from the precarious confines of his PC and more from the inner sanctum of his mind. Armed with only some basic stems salvaged from an audio/video installation project he had been working on with contemporary artist Karin Zwack, Fukuzono set about combining the long-existent melodies in his head with the video and remaining field recordings on his phone, in order to create musical synapses between memories which had remained unconnected.

Fukuzono states: “In doing so, I wanted to show that lost memories exist everywhere, without themselves, and are connected to the present. Like a Ekaki Uta [a Japanese drawing song] I wanted to convey the image of  a circle in which all memories overlap.”

In playing with the idea of inverting minimalism and the Ekaki Uta aesthetic of layering and superimposing individual parts, a palette of samples are merged and manipulated into a state of almost nonrecognition, including train station ticket gates; computer keyboards; airport runways; a brass band practising in a schoolyard; and many other fragments of everyday life that are closely associated with his personal memories.

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