I am so delighted to announce that my new album with Leo Okagawa @leo_okagawa , ‘while it’s warm’ is out on Breton Cassette @bretoncassette today!
I’ve wanted to make a music piece that evokes images one day, so I am very happy that it has taken shape. I am very grateful to have met Leo Okagawa, who had the same interest, and to have been able to bring it to the world through the wonderful art project Breton Cassette.
The blue tape, imprinted with the bird symbol, is delivered in a beautiful handmade envelope embossed with text and symbols, together with three stills extracted from a video I created.
Mastered by amazing Adam Badí Donoval @adambdonoval , beautiful documentation by Erik Mowinckel.
We took the time to correspond with Pernille over more than a year and can’t thank her enough for the inspirational process and her love of art.
please serve while it’s warm.
https://bretoncassette.bandcamp.com/album/while-its-warm-by-ayami-suzuki-leo-okagawa
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while its warm by Ayami Suzuki and Leo Okagawa
while it’s warm, a collaboration between Leo Okagawa and Ayami Suzuki is a slow and careful mix of electronics, vocal, guitar, and field recording from everyday life.
Rain, humming, sounds from an open window, steps, electronic interference; all woven together as in a veiled texture, not unlike our memories, they too eventually become veiled.
As diarists, Okagawa and Suzuki share their everyday sounds and invite the listener into something close and mundane. They reconstruct, combine and mix their stories into 6 subtle, poetic and melancholic soundworks, where the ordinary is given attention.
while it’s warm is presented on cassette in a handmade envelope together with three still prints from one of Suzuki’s video work.
Ayami Suzuki: Voice, guitar, portable cassette tape recorder
Leo Okagawa: Electronics, field recording
Mix: Leo Okagawa
Mastering: Adam Badí Donoval
Design/layout: Pernille Meidell
Documentation: Erik Mowinckel
