Iris

Spiracle

• Title: Iris
• Artist Name: Spiracle
• Track Title: 1. Iris
• Duration: 20:45
• Format: Semitransparent Mini-CD
• Cover: Double Envelope
• Issue: 2005 Feburuary | Digital file edition 2023
• Number: Limited to 750 copies
• Label: Cloud of Statics
• Catalog Number: cosm0502
• Location:
  Source sound recording: Tokyo (Japan) Autumn 2003, Kagoshima (Japan) Spring, Grenoble (France) Summer 2004
  Composition: Epesses (Switzerland) Winter 2004

seven-million years of - the cyclops' sleep
the rutile mountain - transforms to flowers
the ocean-clouds - has crossed the pangaea
becomes - a rainbow dewdrop on a petal

Review

Taking cues from David Jackman's arsenal of growling harmonics from bowed metals, Ellen Fullman's long-stringed instruments, and Akio Suzuki's impeccable ear for tactile events, Hitoshi offers a dynamic drone composition of compacted layers of acoustic sound with slowly scraped strings amassing into a sustained drone made porous by tumbling fistfuls of sand poured out upon the floor and a weirdly compelling flanging bellow.

Aquarius Records

this mcd is surely enough to make me drool for more! Apparently inspired by an Eastern legend, this quite lengthy single track is a hypnotic power drone probably originated by manipulated string bowing. The repetitive playing tecnique is nerve-breaking but also exhilarating, creating a fine example of hardcore minimalism lying somewhere between La Monte Young and a less electronic Colin Potter.

Chain D.L.K