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Sabaku no Genkai ( featuring Kenji Siratori )

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Back in 2008, living in Waseda University dormitory in Tokyo, one night i found a huge keyboard lying in the streets and took it home. I guess it was bound to be trashed, but was still working and looked beautiful and weighted a ton. I had just started playing with Reason and making drones with it, just the opposite of what it's meant to do, and had gotten in touch with Japanese noisician and writer Siratori Kenji who had sent me some of his spoken work to use as I pleased. With my flatmate's camera I had also been doing some field recordings around Tokyo and Enoshima, and all of this ended up in this track, Sabaku no Genkai ( "The Limits of the Desert", the only recognizable phrase Kenji said which I could understand at least ) which I considered as lost for many years and then found in some cd around my house. It was the initial inspiration for the later "Sabaku no Genkai" album which I did as Salomè Lego Playset with Susanna Laterza and Kenji Siratori. At the time I thought it was beautiful, now it's just some random notes on some random drone, with some random words on it, but I'm glad to have found it, and it brings back so many memories. I wonder where that keyboard is now: I did leave it in the dormitory for others to play with it, and it was honestly too heavy to bring it anywhere else. I hope it didn't end up in the trash as it was supposed to, that would be such a waste... Anyway, this is what i was doing 8 years ago, and it feels so much longer ago... Just the year before I had put out the first SLP album, "SLP" on Noisejoy netlabel. Now netlabels are almost no-existent, and I run one myself, Spettro Records, which barely survives. I don't think I was naive or immature, this was the music I could do 8 years ago, the product of that time and age, and don't regret it. Why would I put it online? More for myself to say that I exist and believe that what I do has some sort of meaning. I exist and somewhere that younger me still exists too.

Included as extra track on Salomè Lego Playset's "Sabaku no Genkai" on Spettro Records salomelegoplayset.bandcamp.com/album/sabaku-no-genkai

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released January 1, 2008
SLP ( electronics ), Siratori Kenji ( spoken word )

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