{"product_id":"hyakki-yagyo","title":"Hyakki Yagyo","description":"\u003cp\u003eBlack Truffle release a new solo album by Eiko Ishibashi, her first since her acclaimed 2018 Drag City release \u003ci\u003eThe Dream My Bones Dream\u003c\/i\u003e. Mixed and mastered by Jim O’Rourke.\u003cbr\u003eThis album finds Ishibashi shifting further away from her earlier piano-led songwriting and showing a deepening interest in electronics and audio collaging. \u003ci\u003eHyakki Yagyō\u003c\/i\u003e (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons) was produced for the ‘Japan Supernatural’ exhibition at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney focusing on ghost stories and folklore from the Edo period onwards and is a response to troubling questions about Japanese history, and the influence of the past upon the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduced with regular collaborators Jim O’Rourke (double bass) and Joe Talia (percussion), O’Rourke’s immersive mix creates a three-dimensional effect, with Ishibashi’s various sound sources enmeshing and interacting in captivating ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe two sidelong parts of \u003ci\u003eHyakki Yagyō\u003c\/i\u003e feature layered synthesisers, acoustic instrumentation, recited verse and field recordings, at times densely mixed but always with a subtle interplay of changing elements, hinting at an influence of European and American forerunners as diverse as Alvin Curran, David Behrman and Strafe Für Rebellion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Truffle","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50403115172171,"sku":"1096329","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/0fb3d738-9427-4079-91b9-ce7b752319b9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726557778","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/hyakki-yagyo","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}