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Nick St. George - A Japanese journey (Kyoto)

from Sounds from Japan by Cities and Memory

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Mount Kurama train line reimagined by Nick St. George.

"The year has closed
While still I wear my sandals
And my pilgrim's hat
- Bashō (trans. Basil Hall Chamberlain)

"The 17th century Japanese poet, Bashō, spent much of his time travelling. Presented with a recording of a Japanese train journey, an audio journey seemed an obvious structure.

"So the piece takes us through two contrasting sides of Japanese life - manic/contemplative, noisy/peaceful, brash/cultured, modern/traditional and so on...

"With thanks to Free Music Box for the taiko drums, Librivox for the Basho readings and Freesound for the Japanese cicadas and wind chimes."

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from Sounds from Japan, released June 12, 2020

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Cities and Memory is one of the world’s biggest sound projects, a global, collaborative sound art and field recording programme with the aim of remixing the world, one sound at a time. It covers more than 100 countries and territories with 5,000+ sounds and more than 1,000 contributing artists.
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