"In the past, this inner sea was both a passageway connecting communities and an obstacle separating them."-Tsss Tapes

"On Tetsuya Nakayama's Edo Wan¸ water flutters its wings while metals trickle and splash. The details of human voices get lost in the din while incidental rustles and crackles hold the mic. Occasionally, melodic sounds enter, acting as incidental noise to the dance of liquids and surfaces. The tape captures mundane situations and settings, yet there's something in the assembly of concrete and environmental sounds that re-enchants the ordinary. More than documenting their surroundings, the Chiba, Japan-based producer showcases a way of listening to what's around. Water flowing at different rates and intensities becomes as much of an occasion as musical notes. It chimes with lower case music, but Nakayama's elegant prose of discrete sounds holds time like a sentence cut short."-Daryl Worthington, The Quietus