Jun Miyake

2LPs GATEFOLD EDITION

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Many years back, Jun Miyake went from working in familiar jazz modes to creating a genre that's all his own – music that has a very special vibe, and a sense of subtle beauty that's very much in keeping with the title of the album!

It's always hard to describe Jun's music in words – as at some level, it's an extension of some of the more minimal experiments on the Japanese scene of the 80s – those cool combinations of sound that came after the initial work of Ryuichi Sakamoto and his contemporaries. But at another level, Miyake's music is sometimes more song-based, and tuneful – yet never across the entire space of a record at once. Words won't get us too far in trying to convey the quality of the music, but maybe the phrase "whispered garden" is a start.

TRACKS:

• LP ONE

• A1. Untrodden Sphere
• A2. Hollow Bones
• A3. Counterflect
• A4. The Jamestown Bridge

• B1. Paradica
• B2. Farois Distantes
• B3. Undreamt Chapter
• B4. 1979
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• LP TWO

• C1. Fluctations
• C2. Seshat
• C3. Parece Ate Carnaval
• C4. Progeny

• D1. Le Reve De L'eau
• D2. Witness
• D3. Time Song Time
• D4. Arraiada