Member Since: 1/3/2008
Band Website: lethe-voice.com/kk/
Band Members:
Influences: Releases - Lethe / Kuwayama Kiyoharu...........Lethe / Catastrophe Point 1 & 2 2CD (COS05.01).......... Lethe / Catastrophe Point 3 (3 inch cd-r Locust Media ).......... Lethe / Catastrophe Point 6 CD (SR-001).......... Jonathan Coleclough & Lethe / Long Heat CD (ICR43).......... Kapotte Musiek & Lethe / Tsurumai CD (int025).......... lethe / sleep dIgest (cd by pale - diac).......... toy bizarre + lethe / kdi dctb 115a - 000731 (7 inch by 20 city) .......... kneale - kuwayama / bottom of the motorway (10 inch lathe cut record by pale - disc).......... kneale - kuwayama / under nagoya (cdr by Celebrate Psi Phenomenon).......... Leif Elggren - Kwayama Kiyoharu - brent gutzeit / International Art Exhibition (3 inch cdr by boxmedia)..........Releases - Kuwayama-Kijima.......... kuwayama - kijima / st (cd by gg records).......... kuwayama - kijima / 00.10.17 (7inch by 20 city).......... kuwayama - kijima with matthew heyner / 02.02.18 (cd-r by boxmedia).......... kuwayama - kijima / 01.05.10 (cd by alluvial recordings).......... kuwayama - kijima / 01.06.16 (cd by trente oiseaux).......... kuwayama - kijima / 02.08.31 (cd by trente oiseaux).......... kuwayama - kijima with carter thornton / shrine LP(conduit creations 007)..........Collaboration.......... Jonathan Coleclough, Kapotte Musiek, Toy BizarreI, Rick Reed, BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL, Antony Milton, Sean Meehan, Matt Heyner, Sabir Mateen, Chris Corsano, Same Girl, Buttercup Metal Polish, Jacques Demierre, Norbert Moslang, Gunter Muller, Tomas Korber, Christian Weber, Jason Kahn,Michel Henritzi, Urabe Masayoshi, Mukai Chie, Suzuki Akio, Shimada Hideaki, Mizutani Kiyoshi, Otomo Yoshihide, Junko,
Sounds Like: Lethe / Catastrophe Point 6 SR-001 CD Nagoya based Kiyoharu Kuwayama has an interest in reverberant spaces, recording under bridges and flyovers as well as in warehouse and shinto temples at night. Although he occasionally employs cello, his works tends to explore space and perspective in utterly unconventional ways. Typically, he favours objects found in situ to sound the acoustic enviroment and is as likely to use a chair scraped along the floor as a standard musical instrument. But music this most definitely is. The first piece on offer here foregrounds what sounds like a handful of pebbles being clicked together against a distant backdrop of scraped sheet metal. The thickness of the room's acoustics lends the whole an almost frightening clarity, and there's an unreality to the way the two different reverberant layers combine that only adds to the sense of unease. We're thrown into a subtly heightened acoustic realm, in which scale and perspective are altered, to disquieting psychological effect. The second piece heightens and complicates the acoustic picture even further, and increases the density of the sonic activity. The sound sources here seem to be bundles of sticks, bottles, tea trays and iron girders thrown down lift shafts. Once again the ear tries to make sense of the altered relationships Kuwayama set up between loud and soft, close and distant. Slowly, the piece starts to focus more and more strongly on a huge, dark vibration at the furthest end of the acoustic spectrum, which builds in intensity, racking up the tension and subtly disturbing the mind's equilibrium. By this point, the music sounds like it's taking piece in a vast, pitch black aircraft hangar of the soul. by Keith Moline (WIRE No.264) . . .
Type of Label: Indie