Listen to Shuta Hasunuma

Green Repair (edit) 

Long Road Home (edit)

Prelude (edit)

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The artwork on Japanese artist Shuta Hasunuma's debut release is a collage of thousands of tiny pieces of photos.  Though any semblance of the original images is lost, he uses the pieces to create a delicately beautiful new image.

Similarly, Hasunuma uses pieces of field recordings from the streets and countryside of Japan, erratic electronic textures, and emotive guitar and piano melodies to create music that feels like the broken and escaping memories of dreams.  Throughout the album he does an amazing job of using simple, sometimes child-like, melodies to evoke a feeling of melancholy that's both cinematic and intimate.
   
Hasunuma's studies of Environmental Science, led to his deep appreciation for the relationship between urban life and nature.  He illustrates this relationship on tracks like "Green Repair" and "Morning Fanfare," both based around contrasting field recordings of Japan's urban and rural soundscapes.

In the end we get something akin to an audio diary, shifting from deeply moody with tracks like "Prelude" and "Double Navaho" to playful and whimsical on tracks like "Long Road Home" and "Eurikago Afternoon."

With diverse influences including '90s hip hop, Terry Riley, Fugazi, No Neck Blues Band, 54-71, lo borges, Tony Conrad, Alice Coltrane's piano, Somei Satoh, and Haruomi Hosono, Hasunuma has developed a unique ability to communicate the personal and the universal aspects of our relationship with our environments.

R.I.Y.L. The Books, Fennesz, Boards of Canada, Mum, Bibio, Mountains

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“It’s an album of simple but affecting emotion, of winsome recollections and bittersweet beauty.” – Fake Jazz

“Hasunuma’s debut is rife with gifted songcraft” – Fake Jazz

“his work is distinguished by its fragile delicacy and dreamy flow” – Textura

“a dense electronic landscape that totters between the lush expanses of wilderness and the encroaching limits of the city.” – Raven Sings the Blues

“Shuta Hasunuma’s debut is a meditation on everyday life and a nice accompaniment to the coming of autumn.” – Animal Psi

“nearly the perfect mixture of organic and electronic” – Almost Cool