The Floating Glass Key in the Sky
Wide-eyed hyperlink music
For waking dreamtime.
Baku Tsunoda (25) and Naomichi Tanaka (28) have been working together as the Rainstick Orchestra for the last four years. They met when they were both DJing in a club in Tokyo and, as they lived near to each other, they began hanging out and trying to improve their musical skills by working together.
By day, Baku is an Editorial Designer and Naomichi is a Systems Engineer. But it's music that drives them both. While Naomichi cites an early love of the music of Manchester as a formative influence as well as time playing in punk bands, Baku started out playing guitar and piano in both a Yellow Magic Orchestra covers band and a session group who played in the style of Maceo Parker and Funkadelic.
What they create together, using guitars, piano, bass & sequencers, is a delicate Systems musicthat gives a nod to the minimalism of Cage and Reich as well as echoing forms such as techno and jazz. Unsurprisingly, they both subscribe to the idea that music is Borderless
We are influenced by the art of different kinds / genres, such as paintings and constructions rather than music in many cases'...
Although Baku has released music under his own name, this is their first release as the Rainstick Orchestra.
And when the machine
Sleeps, this is the sound it
Hears in its tired head.
