BEATRICE DILLON / HIDEKI UMEZAWA - Basho / Still Forms LP Emo Much like his brass-heavy collaboration

Much like his brass-heavy collaboration album »Osaka Bridge« with Japanese collective Maher Shalal Hash Baz—made available again on vinyl by the German label Karaoke Kalk in February 2023—this album injects melancholic atmospheres with a sense of playfulness

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the six songs hit a highly satisfying mark of fine-wrought arrangements riddled with strange artefacts ornamenting the ether

Across his EP

BEATRICE DILLON / HIDEKI UMEZAWA - Basho / Still Forms LP Emo Much like his brass-heavy collaborationThe title of this work by Beatrice Dillon is taken from the notion of basho, developed by Kitar Nishida, Japanese philosopher and father of the Kyoto school. Kitaros basho () refers to a fundamental place or field where things exist and interact. Not just a physical location, but a more abstract space where all experiences, thoughts, and phenomena are interconnected. In Nishidas philosophy, basho is a dynamic, living ground where subject and object,