Two Views Of Amami Oshima

Hideki Umezawa & Andrew Pekler team up for a split LP and present two longform-pieces, two aural views of Amami Oshima, an island in the Ryukyus: “Hideki Umezawa recorded a lot of natural sounds (…) On this long playing record these recordings are blended with electronically generated sounds. Next, Andrew Pekler, who has never actually visited Amami Oshima, upon hearing Umezawa’s field recordings creates (…) a complementary dreamscape of the island’s phenomena. Of what could be. This is a work that doubts between site specific and creative imagination. With sounds echoing between the anecdotic and the imaginary.“