群像 by masafumi sato

Chihei Hatakeyama、Celer、Hakobuneファンまで、自然美豊かなテン年代以後のドローン・アンビエントを愛するすべての方に。

『ニューエイジ・ミュージック・ディスクガイド』の著者として全力でレコメンド。

亡き愛猫へと捧げた2ndアルバム『群像』。この作品へと触れて直ぐに頭を過ったのが「情念」という言葉であった。それは果てしなく雄大なもの....今作のテーマを聞かずとも、「ここではないどこか」へと想いを寄せていることは、私にも自然と伝わっていた様だ。

テン年代以降のアンビエントからゼロ年代のエレクトロニカ、エクスペリメンタル、ドローンの地平に至るまで、自身のルーツや興隆する現行のシーンやジャンルの枠組みを超え、渡り歩いてきた好奇心旺盛な人物、masafumi sato。

彼のライフワークは、「山に登ること」。我々日本人の心や営みの原風景であり、日本の郷土と人々の生命観に多大な影響を及してきた聖なる「山」のもとに、彼の創作の源泉がある。

「山」とは、日本の精神文化の力強い源泉にして、この国に息づく文化と多様性の象徴というべき場所だ。広大で美しくも、複雑で、そこに住まう人々の生活に多大な影響や恵みを齎す「山」という場所は、人間の「生」の象徴でもあると共に、「死」やその先にある「再生」という崇高な役目を担う、聖なる場所だ。

現世と彼岸、来世が交差する、日本の「山」という、聖なる場所に宿る力に触れ、養われてきた自由な精神と、そこに生きる自然を尊ぶ心が、彼自身の創作の根源的なテーマである「彼岸」（あちら側、ここではないどこか。）というものを浮かび上がらせたのかもしれない。

本作『群像』で描き出す、果てしなく広大にして幽玄なランドスケープのあちらこちらでは、在りし日の彼の猫の姿や、愛猫との想い出、記憶、影が浮かび上がってくる。さまざまな陰影や悲哀、みずみずしい活気に満ちた、在りし日の彼らの軌跡であり、今も終わりなく続くの営みのブルースである。まさに彼の「信仰」そのものを映し出したかのような、超越的にして、終わりなき「再生の物語」。この深遠にして素朴な美しさは、聴く者の心を捉えて離さない。

50年、100年先も色褪せることの無き、彼岸の景色の中で、何度もまた逢える瞬間に。

（meditations 門脇 綱生）
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Tokyo-based ambient artist masafumi sato's second album dedicated to his deceased cat, "Gunzo".

It is a raw trajectory that aims for the universality of emotions from the ambient and experimental line of the tenth generation.
The fortuitous encounters, the repose of souls for all the losses. A total of seven songs with a wish for rebirth.Limited edition of 50 copies on clear vinyl with an obi, carefully produced by Morimoto Shoten. Download code included.

For all those who love the natural beauty of post-ten's drone ambient music, including fans of Chihei Hatakeyama, Celer, and Hakobune.

As the author of "New Age Music Disc Guide", I will do my best to recommend this album.

The second album "Gunzo" was dedicated to my late beloved cat. The word "passion" immediately came to mind when I touched this album. It is something endlessly magnificent. .... Even without hearing the theme of this work, it seemed to come naturally to me that the artist was thinking of "somewhere other than here".

Masafumi sato is a curious person who has been crossing over the framework of current scenes and genres that have risen and fallen beyond his own roots, from the ambient music of the '10s and beyond to the electronica of the '00s, experimental music, and drone music.

His life's work is "to climb mountains. The source of his creativity lies in the sacred "mountain," which is the original landscape of the Japanese mind and life, and has had a profound influence on the Japanese homeland and people's view of life.

Mountains are a powerful source of Japanese spirituality and a symbol of the country's culture and diversity. Vast, beautiful, and complex, the mountains have a profound influence on and bless the lives of their inhabitants, and are a symbol of human life and a sacred place that plays the noble role of death and rebirth.

The free spirit and respect for nature that have been nurtured through contact with the power that resides in the sacred place called "mountain" in Japan, where this world, the other shore, and the next world intersect, may have brought to light the fundamental theme of his own creation, "the other shore" (that side, somewhere other than here.) The spirit of freedom and respect for the nature that lives there may have brought to light the "other shore" (the other side, somewhere other than here) that is the fundamental theme of his own creation.

In the endlessly vast and ethereal landscape depicted in "Group Figure," the image of his cat of days gone by, memories of his beloved cat, memories, and shadows emerge here and there. It is the trace of their lives in the past, filled with various shadows, sorrows, and fresh vitality, as well as the blues of their ongoing activities. It is a transcendent and never-ending "story of rebirth" that seems to reflect his "faith" itself. The profound and simple beauty of this song will capture the hearts of those who listen to it and not let it go.

It will never fade away, even 50 or 100 years from now, when we meet again and again in the scenery on the other side of the shore.

(meditations by Tsunaki Kadowaki)