Symbol
Susumu Yokota
| Formats | Tracks | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12" Vinyl Album | 13 tracks | £18.00 | |
| Download Album (Skintone Series) (MP3) | 14 tracks | £7.99 | |
| Download Album (Skintone Series) (WAV) | 14 tracks | £7.99 | |
| Download individual tracks | From £0.99 | ||
Description
Susumu Yokota - Symbol
Originally released in 2004, the special limited edition reissue comes in a newly designed and beautifully packaged gatefold sleeve with liner notes by Ben Eshmade and Tsutomu Noda.
The prolific Yokota rightly saw this album as his masterwork. An incredible kaleidoscopic patchwork of samples from classical recordings by the likes of John Cage, Meredith Monk, Prokofiev, Debussy, Ravel and Tchaikovsky are brought together and lovingly transformed in Yokota’s inimitable style to create what Pitchfork described as an "ecstasy album”
Each track is a firework of temporality, as ideas collide and briefly hold together in the fragile moment before decaying and decomposing. Sampling, the re-imagining of music, is very much the instrument of Yokota. Within the restricted seconds of a digital sample you hear a recording from a certain time, you hear the room, you hear the dust on the cello bow, and you can just about sense what the musician was feeling that day.
The prolific Yokota rightly saw this album as his masterwork. An incredible kaleidoscopic patchwork of samples from classical recordings by the likes of John Cage, Meredith Monk, Prokofiev, Debussy, Ravel and Tchaikovsky are brought together and lovingly transformed in Yokota’s inimitable style to create what Pitchfork described as an "ecstasy album”
Each track is a firework of temporality, as ideas collide and briefly hold together in the fragile moment before decaying and decomposing. Sampling, the re-imagining of music, is very much the instrument of Yokota. Within the restricted seconds of a digital sample you hear a recording from a certain time, you hear the room, you hear the dust on the cello bow, and you can just about sense what the musician was feeling that day.
Reviews
...𝙖 𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙝, 𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙩-𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚-𝙡𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮. - Pitchfork𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙣, 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙙𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛. 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. - Loud & Quiet
...𝙖 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙘𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙮. - Norman Records
'𝙎𝙮𝙢𝙗𝙤𝙡' 𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡, 𝙖𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙧𝙜𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙘-𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣...𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜. - Vinyl Factory
𝙄𝙩’𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙝𝙚’𝙨 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡 𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙪𝙩-𝙤𝙛-𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙜𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙙𝙞𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚, 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩’𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙡 – 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡. - Juno Daily
𝙎𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙪 𝙔𝙤𝙠𝙤𝙩𝙖'𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚. - Djolo
𝘼𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙠𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙞𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙘 𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙗𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙜𝙚, 𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙈𝙤𝙣𝙠, 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙤𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙫, 𝘿𝙚𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙮, 𝙍𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙠𝙤𝙫𝙨𝙠𝙮. 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝟭𝟬/𝟭𝟬 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. - South Records
..𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚. - Minerva Records
𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙎𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙪 𝙔𝙤𝙠𝙤𝙩𝙖'𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙙𝙞𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙤𝙚𝙪𝙫𝙧𝙚... - All Music
...𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚. - Pop Matters
...𝙖𝙣 𝙖𝙢𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙. - Exclaim!
...𝙖 𝙤𝙣𝙚-𝙤𝙛-𝙖-𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. - Sputnik Music
Tracklisting
12" Vinyl Album (LO190LP)
- long long silk bridge
- purple rose minuet
- traveler in the wonderland
- Song of the sleeping forest
- the plateau which the zephyr of flora occupies
- fairy dance of twinkle and shadow
- flaming love and destiny
- the dying black swan
- blue sky and yellow flower
- capriccio and the innovative composer
- I close the door upon myself
- symbol of life, love and aesthetics
- music from the lake surface
Download Album (Skintone Series) (LO190DA)
- Long Long Silk Bridge
- Purple Rose Minuet
- Traveler In The Wonderland
- Song Of The Sleeping Forest
- The Plateau Which The Zephyr Of Flora Occupies
- Fairy Dance Of Twinkle And Shadow
- Flaming Love And Destiny
- The Dying Black Swan
- Blue Sky And Yellow Sunflower
- Capriccio And The Innovative Composor
- I Close The Door Upon Myself
- Symbol Of Life, Love, And Aesthetics
- Music From The Lake Surface
- Symbol Of Love (Ocean Moon Remix)