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Tori Kudo - Studio Village Hototoguiss 2007-2022
Matsuyama in Ehime is the birthplace of haiku, and to this day, haiku submission boxes are placed around town. Young people gather in a haiku society-like manner. In other words, they observe and contemplate well, but their approach is generally instant, casual, and somewhat careless. There is a local disposition here, which they call “yomoda” in the dialect—a blend of humour and sadness. It’s as if they pretend to agree to demands in a laid-back way, all while delaying the big decision. It’s a matter related to the moment and ethics.
Near the famous Dogo Onsen is Studio Village Hototogisu, named after the magazine Hototogisu started by Masaoka Shiki, the father of haiku. The studio was once a large psychiatric hospital, which Mr. Tsuru, the owner, completely remodelled, turning the third floor into his music studio. Tsuru-san is both a psychiatrist and an avid enthusiast of classic rock. He’s a broad-minded adult who also accepts my type of music. About once or twice a month, I randomly select an instrument or device from his vast collection, gathers whoever happens to be around, usually his family, and in about two hours, we record and mix a piece. This album is a compilation of those recordings. The album label is designed after Matsuyama’s specialty confection, “Ichiroku Tart.”
From around the time of the pandemic, I started layering his dobro guitar or mandolin over my tracks on purpose. The mainstream and the fringe—once opposing camps—merged after this pandemic, a convergence in rock history that’s etched on side D of this album, reflecting the current global situation.
Could a society of free-verse haiku poets sharing both love and resentment for Matsuyama be possible? It’s a question that touches on the future course of nationalism.
– Tori
Near the famous Dogo Onsen is Studio Village Hototogisu, named after the magazine Hototogisu started by Masaoka Shiki, the father of haiku. The studio was once a large psychiatric hospital, which Mr. Tsuru, the owner, completely remodelled, turning the third floor into his music studio. Tsuru-san is both a psychiatrist and an avid enthusiast of classic rock. He’s a broad-minded adult who also accepts my type of music. About once or twice a month, I randomly select an instrument or device from his vast collection, gathers whoever happens to be around, usually his family, and in about two hours, we record and mix a piece. This album is a compilation of those recordings. The album label is designed after Matsuyama’s specialty confection, “Ichiroku Tart.”
From around the time of the pandemic, I started layering his dobro guitar or mandolin over my tracks on purpose. The mainstream and the fringe—once opposing camps—merged after this pandemic, a convergence in rock history that’s etched on side D of this album, reflecting the current global situation.
Could a society of free-verse haiku poets sharing both love and resentment for Matsuyama be possible? It’s a question that touches on the future course of nationalism.
– Tori
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Tracklisting
12" Vinyl Double Album (BR-D 53)
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- SEROTONIN
- Machination in your days
- Lickin' Up The Dust
- Miss You My Baby Doll
- Mousou Tokkyu Kamui
- 鬼火(ほおづきおとこ)
- 下鴨yugueにて
- 春
- Switch Back
- 港の人
- 音楽に寄す
- River Song
- Some of these days
- I'll keep it with mine
- 遺書Ⅰ
- みっつのリンゴ
- Net Cafe Mystery
- 休日出勤
- JOB2011
- Fridays
- Too Many Wives
- 名前 - el nombre
- The World is your Oyster
- 石切り ricochet
- 眺望
- 台風一過 ~ 岬を回って
- What if I never speede
- 改変期
- ai ai gomteira
- それをやめれば
- These Days
- Jaki
- Les Barricades mystereuses
- マックの店長で
- すっからかん節
- とうとうお金が無くなってきた
- 2020
- 平たい厳粛な家 flat solemn house
- people who are left alive yet
- 記憶に残るわんこ A memorable doggie
- Light of Love
- bheart earth
- Why are we sitting here until we die
- 2024-02-07