Bitter Sweet, by sawako

Bitter Sweet

by sawako

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Deylius Stunning album! Love the
hazy sound and the subtle use of acoustic instruments. Very unique! Favorite track: Looped Labyrinth.

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1.	Wind Shower Particle 07:20	buy track
2.	April - From Sea Shell 03:08	buy track
3.	Deep Under 04:34	buy track
4.	Looped Labyrinth 09:34	buy track
5.	Ex.o.tico 02:10	buy track
6.	H u g b u g 09:50	buy track
7.	Utouto (with Ryan Francesconi) 04:01	buy track
8.	Tsubomi Saku 04:59	buy track
9.	A Last Next 03:31	buy track

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New York/Tokyo based Sawako is a musician, software designer, and multimedia artist whose multi-disciplinary works intermix and pollenate her music with inspiration ranging from nature, science, academia and poetic motion. Following releases on Anticipate and And/Oar, Bitter Sweet is Sawako's 2nd release on 12k after the critically acclaimed Hum (12k1035) in 2005. Her music is fragile and intimate, delicate, ephemeral and resonant. Bitter Sweet is unmistakably Sawako but finds itself moving into much, much deeper territory than her previous works. Building on her past forays into experimental pop, she uses low and mid-frequency drones and soft, melodic highlights to shape beds of stripped-down, shifting into hypnotic and very linear tracks that fill the space they exist. These gentle movements are punctuated by field recordings and acoustic instrumentation with cello provided by Jacob Kirkegaard and guitar by Radiosonde and Ryan Francesconi who also co-write two of the pieces on the album. In what has become a bit of a signature, Sawako lends her own voice to the ending lullaby "A Last Next." These combination produce rich results.

Bitter Sweet's diffuse and hazy soundscaping is Sawako's most mature work to date, relying less on her previous child-like melodies while remaining feminine and tender. She has come into her own after having established herself for a number of years as a New Yorker where she has tirelessly performed, studied and created as an important member of the city's electronic music community.

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released May 13, 2008

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sawako 東京都, Japan

Sawako is a sound sculptor, a timeline-based artist and a signal alchemist who understands the value of dynamics and the power of silence. She released albums from 12k, and/OAR and Anticipate, and has performed internationally as an audio and/or visual artist in MUTEK(Canada); Warm Up at MoMA P.S.1 (NY); UCLA Hammer Museum (LA); Sonar, MACBA (Spain); OFFF (Lisbon); ICA London (UK) and more. ... more

discography

island light

Dec 2011
summer tour 2002

Jun 2011
early works #01

Jan 2011
early works #02

Jan 2011
Bitter Sweet

May 2008
Hum

Nov 2005
fishwish

May 2003

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