Pre-Existence

Tetuzi Akiyama

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 18, 2005)
• Original Release Date: October 4, 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Locust
• ASIN: B000B8GTMO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #526,847 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pancake repairman is half right, June 14, 2006

By	xe non "xe" (san diego, ca United States) - See all my reviews

this record does sound like a banjo being tuned...but what beautiful soul cleansing banjo tuning it is...

im familiar with the minimalist con artists that pancake speaks of and all i can say is...yes, on the surface it is easy to fake the sort of thing that happens here, but with akiyama you have the real deal. he is really onto something with his negative space aesthetic, you can feel it...that is the key...you can feel it. a smattering of notes, a long silence, tension builds, ebbs and flows...like being deep in a cave, the eyes are useless so you make do with the nose and the ears and pretty soon you have a cathedral-like sense of the space, things are flitting around that you cant make out and you realize they are sounds falling off the face of the earth. akiyama allows a jaded music junkie like myself to reconnect with the very act of hearing again. recommended if you need that sort of thing yourself.

3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Please enter a title for your review, November 1, 2005

By	pancake_repairman "pancake_repairman" (gfjdhgfjhgj) - See all my reviews

I've heard some retarded avant-garde sparse experimental non-music in my time, but this recording reaches a new level of incomprehensible stupidity. It sounds like someone slowly tuning a banjo, and that is not an exaggeration, it could easily be a recording of exactly that.