Kosei Fukuda - 流転陽・ RUTEN +

REITEN

£18

Genre: Electronic/Ambient/Experimental/Electronica
Format: 2LP
Catalogue No.: RTN013
Release Date: 01 Jul 2022 (back in)

Kosei Fukuda presents the second half of his debut album – Ruten. In principle, the two halves, called ‘Ruten –‘ and ‘Ruten +’ are meant to represent the principle of Ying & Yang, the two elemental forces and the eternal cycle of energy. As a whole, they signify a journey from the nascent being to the eventual dissolution of everything into nothing. Yet there’s still a deeper message at play: the omnipresence of patterns. Even the incessant flow of changes is patterned. The philosophers ask what it tells us about reality. The artists offer answers, each coded in the respective artistic language.

The second volume offers a different take on such explorations, moving towards more nebulous and fuzzier modes of musical imagination. It is here where Fukuda’s music begins to evince ineffable qualities, going beyond words that could definitively grasp its content. As such it seems to be asking: are patterns really there, or are we projecting them onto the world? This change of the composition style signifies a change of intellectual perspective, the second complementing the first. Drone-like sounds of the opening tracks appear alien initially, but on closer inspection they are reminiscent of this-worldly ambient sounds – just amplified many times over, stretched to a border of recognition, and rearranged for a thought-provoking auditory experience. They are impressionist vignettes where chromatic properties count for much more than any beat or harmonic structure.

* Tracklist:
A1: 白光 Hakkou
A2: 慈光 Jikou
A3: 光源 Kougen
B1: 回向 Ekou
B2: 根源 Kongen
B3: 混沌 Konton
C1: 法眼 Hougen
C2: 霊験 Reigen
C3: 幽玄 Yugen
D1: 蕭寥 Shouryou
D2: 陽炎 Youen
D3: 流転 Ruten

* Tracklist:
A1: 白光 Hakkou (TRACK LENGTH 05:02 min)
A2: 慈光 Jikou (TRACK LENGTH 04:13 min)
A3: 光源 Kougen (TRACK LENGTH 04:35 min)
B1: 回向 Ekou (TRACK LENGTH 04:48 min)
B2: 根源 Kongen (TRACK LENGTH 02:19 min)
B3: 混沌 Konton (TRACK LENGTH 09:40 min)
C1: 法眼 Hougen (TRACK LENGTH 02:39 min)
C2: 霊験 Reigen (TRACK LENGTH 09:29 min)
C3: 幽玄 Yugen (TRACK LENGTH 02:13 min)
D1: 蕭寥 Shouryou (TRACK LENGTH 04:10 min)
D2: 陽炎 Youen (TRACK LENGTH 09:03 min)
D3: 流転 Ruten (TRACK LENGTH 02:01 min)