Satoshi Ashikawa's Still Way + Gareth Quinn Redmond's Laistigh den Ghleo CD COMBO
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
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With liner notes by Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada and Gareth Quinn Redmond.
Includes unlimited streaming of Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Satoshi Ashikawa's Still Way + Gareth Quinn Redmond's Laistigh den Ghleo VINYL COMBO
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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With liner notes by Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada and Gareth Quinn Redmond.
Includes unlimited streaming of Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Way TEST PRESSING (Edition of 25)
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Collector's item // Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Way test pressing // Only 25 available // Only here.
Comes with digital download + liner notes. ALL ORDERS SHIP WITH TRACKING.
Includes unlimited streaming of Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Satoshi Ashikawa - Still Way TEST PRESSING
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
4 copies.
Includes unlimited streaming of Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Vinyl LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
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With liner notes by Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada and Gareth Quinn Redmond.
Includes unlimited streaming of Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Digipack CD
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
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With liner notes by Satoshi Ashikawa, Midori Takada and Gareth Quinn Redmond.
Includes unlimited streaming of Still Way (Wave Notation 2)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Still Way Vinyl LP
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Back in stock.
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WRWTFWW Records is honored to announce the much anticipated reissue of Satoshi Ashikawa’s undeniable classic of Japanese environmental/ambient/minimalism, Still Way (Wave Notation 2). The album, available on vinyl (first time since 1982) and digipack CD (with one bonus track), comes with a cover artwork by Hiroshi Yoshimura and liner notes by Midori Takada, Satoshi Ashikawa himself, and Irish producer Gareth Quinn Redmond (whose Still Way-inspired album Laistigh den Ghleo is being released simultaneously on WRWTFWW).
Initially released in 1982 as part of the Wave Notation series*, Still Way is, without a doubt, a seminal Japanese environmental/ambient/minimalism album, often mentioned alongside Midori Takada’s Through Looking Glass and Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Green as one of the genre’s most important pieces.
"Like the moment of stillness, after the wind passes through the garden, when the rain stops for a brief second…" Notably inspired by Erik Satie’s Furniture Music and Brian Eno’s ambient work, Satoshi Ashikawa aimed to compose music "intended to be listened to in a casual manner, as a musical landscape or a sound object…not something that would stimulate listeners but music that should drift like smoke and become part of the environment."
The result is simply phenomenal, subtle minimalism and emotional elegance exquisitely orchestrated by Satoshi Ishikawa and his team consisting of his wife Masami Ashikawa (on flute), Midori Takada (on vibraphone), Yuko Utsumi (on harp), Tomoko Sono (on piano), and Junko Arase (on vibraphone).
In conjunction with Still Way, WRWTFWW is releasing Laistigh den Ghleo, a companion album by Irish ambient/minimalist composer Gareth Quinn Redmond, inspired by Ashikawa’s approach.
*The Wave Notation series also includes Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Music For Nine Postcards album.
Prelude 1:46
Harp - Yuko Utsumi
Piano - Tomoko Sono
Vibraphone - Midori Takada
Landscape Of Wheels 11:52
Harp - Yuko Utsumi
Still Park - Ensemble 12:05
Harp - Yuko Utsumi
Piano - Midori Takada
Vibraphone - Junko Arase
Still Park - Piano Solo 4:48
Piano - Tomoko Sono
Still Sky 8:33
Flute - Masami Ashikawa
Image Under The Tree 13.03
Flute - Masami Ashikawa
Piano - Tomoko Sono
Vibraphone - Midori Takada
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This album is like watching a sped up video of a small sprout growing into a seedling in loamy topsoil. Or a few microscopic organisms wriggling about. Very wholesome.
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