| From the album: "Program Music I" (2007) Born in Hiroshima, kashiwa daisuke started off as the tokyo-based composer and guitarist of postrock band "yodaka" in 2001. Having evaluated their sound, they have been praised by Jim O'Rourke. Being inspired by their psychedelic sound due to a postrock approach and by Maurizio Bianchi, he started his solo project in 2004. As a solo artist his idea is to create not only acoustic, but also electronic filmy soundscapes and atmospheres. He is doing that by melting together a variety of classic instruments, spoken word snippets, and crisp beats. With a proper amount of ambient music, all of these form an exquisite sound experience. In the first few minutes of "Stella", Kashiwa Daisuke uses the sounds of running water as a sample interlaced with his omnipresent piano and strings. He takes that sound, however, and breaks it up so that the running water no longer runs and instead limps. Music often flows like running water, and with this sample, Daisuke lays out his musical philosophy immediately, showing that he will take the most flowing, beautiful music and chop it up as he pleases. If Daisuke's piano and strings represent a piece of glass, untouched and perfectly clear, then his samples and beats represent a huge sledgehammer with which he destroys the glass and laughs as the glass shatters and falls to the ground. His aim, so precise, causes the glass to fall into a perfect shape in its shattered form, much like Picasso's cubist ... |
