Lumen

Spiracle

• Title: Lumen
• Artist Name: Spiracle
• Track title: Lumen
• Duration: 19:17
• Format: 3" CDr
• Cover: 3" Jewel case
• Issue: August 2007 | Digital file edition 2023
• Label: Taâlem
• Catalog Number: alm 44

• Location: Original Source: Kagoshima (Japan) 2004. Composition: Lavaux (Switzerland) 2005, Mooste (Estonia) Summer 2006. Re-composition and Mastering: Genéve (Switzerland) Winter 2007
• Note: A work made around the same time as the previous work "Ananta" by Spiracle. Like Ananta, this piece was composed with a particular time of day in mind for the listening. In contrast to Ananta's before and during sleep, Lumen assumes the situation is just before sunrise, but it's not necessary to mean before waking up.
• The digital file edition is remastered in 2022 and released with the alternative mix "Mulen" as an album in 2023.

Review

Think Andrew Chalk. Then think about Chalk's contributions to Organum.
The early '90s drone compositions may very well be the springboard for the Japanese nomad Hitoshi Kojo, who records under the moniker Spiracle.
His slow moving acoustic drones have all of the gravel throated raspiness of bowed metals, gongs, long-strings, and whatnot; but his elegant compositional sensibility shifts these growling textures into billowing, aerated movements of endless dronescaping.
A brief 20 minute piece from Spiracle, but one that could endure more than a few repeated listens.
Very nice.

Helen Scarsdale Agency