[IA.003] Okamura Kumiko – MDDA
Kumiko Okamura, a current resident of the megalopolis of Tokyo but born in the snowy regions of Niigata prefecture, is a self-proclaimed ‘broken composer’ and ‘accident life player’. Her MDDA album, a collection of improvised first-takes recorded onto four-track tape, is full of elegy, poetry and violence — a dream-world that does not serve to prevent, but rather to invite, shock.
The tracks on MDDA make us aware of the fullness of life. And they do so informed by a strong musical instinct. One hears K.H. Stockhausen making contact, Yoko Ono singing from inside a closet, Pierre Schaeffer manipulating reels, alongside borrowings from Cologne techno, Group Ongaku, Brian Eno’s music for airports, and many other vanguard musics — all mashed together into a subconscious image of a sound country that is hard for us to travel if we lack a willingness to be vulnerable and insist that music has to be soothing.
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