The first and most obvious thing to say about this CD is that one should perhaps empty one’s bladder before attempting it. Here is a magical use of water as a sound source, the Main soundsource. Layers and layers of water, dripping, running, rippling, everything that water can sound like, then done double to make it sound like something else. Sometimes it is relaxing, sometimes it is unnerving. Sometimes, when it does really sound like water, it makes you have to “go”.
Aube is Akifume Nakajima, a noted Japanese noise artist, who has crossed a border with Ricochetentrance. For years and years we’ve been hearing people make music out of anything they could force to produce sound. It has been said that the need to have music in life is so strong as to drive people to create noise by whatever means they have available. Instruments have been optional forever. Think of primitive early American mountain dwellers, strumming out melodies from their corrugated washboards, cavemen beating on bones, Platform 5 weilding spanners on their radiators. This is how instruments were ever even invented, right? But here we have a man who has taken one essence of life, and used it to produce another..
Water to music. Blatantly obvious idea. And, he’s done it well. I think Aube may go on to continue discovering soundsources, new ways to re-do what’s been done in patterns too long. Hopefully, Mr. Nakajima will also continue to develop these water sounds. Water is life, and life needs music. What genius to use one to make the other. It should be noted that this CD has been done in limited edition, with beautiful packaging, simply reflecting the source within, designed by Aube as well as its contents. Do collect and reflect: Aube has reminded us that while nothing is original, our worlds can pool with creation, as close as the kitchen sink.
-Lilly2000-
