Eiki Nonaka - A-Key

Studio Mule

£28.35

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: STUDIOMULE39
Barcode: 4250101445422
Release Date: 22 Jul 2022
Genre: Electronic/Jazz

Once again Studio Mule dives deep into the music history of Japan, unearthing the multi-colored album “A-Key” by Eiki Nonaka, released as CD only on the short living japanese label Sun & Moon Records in 1995. An album, that uniquely unifies global ethnic music styles, the playfulness of Jazz, innovative electronic soundscapes, and the winding per-sonality of spiritual music.

https://kompakt.fm/b2b/releases/a_key
It’s the only solo album of a musician, that is triggering the advanced electrified japanese music culture since the early 1980s. Eiki Nonaka was part of electronic New Age quartet interiors, releasing the two minimalistic, synth-pop leaning albums “Interior” and “design” in 1982 and 1987. likewise, he was a member of Haruomi Hosono’s band friends of earth, playing, voicing, and tuning the drum machine, guitar, synthesizers, and mi-crophone on their second landmark experimental Pop Electronic album “Sex, Energy and Star”, released Hosono’s outstanding non-standard label in 1986.
His one and only solo album “A-Key” features the essence of all his musical journeys until 1995, bringing, as he puts it on his blog http://www.viewz.jp, “all my musical career up to that point designed in sounds that were ringing in my head at that time. It's extremely introspective, but the various mental landscapes of that time are still vibrating fresh and acoustically new.”
Tracklisting

A1 Eiki Nonaka Phlanged Vortex 00:08:03
A2 Eiki Nonaka Splash 00:05:11
A3 Eiki Nonaka Absolute Domino 00:06:06
A4 Eiki Nonaka Pyramidal View 00:05:30
B1 Eiki Nonaka Sango 00:06:58
B2 Eiki Nonaka Is This How It Feels 00:07:44
B3 Eiki Nonaka Gorby’s Blues 00:09:41