Suzuki, Akio

Tubridge 99-00

Label: Edition Rz Country: Germany

Japanese installation and sound artist Akio Suzuki in recordings of made at the New Taiza Tunnel in Tango Kyoto, 1999, rich and pure works of ambient environments.

"I think of Akio Suzuki as a kind of magician, perhaps the most charming, engaging artist I've seen, Japanese musician and inventor, instrument builder and shaman Akio Suzuki is probably unknown to most of you. But we think his work is utterly captivating and crucial; it deserves a much bigger audience. Akio has been performing, teaching and building instruments for nearly 40 years. His music is simple and pure, and beautifully unworried by the rules of modern music. He explores nature and how its atmospheres and sounds can be harnessed and then set free, how you can lose yourself in the sound that surrounds us, and how musical creation and beauty exist in all things, in all moments"-David Toop