METAMORPHPSIS


Well, let us listen to the CD “Metalive”!
It consists of three tracks that Aube has generated in 1990s.
For each track, metal was used as the sound material.
Sounds were metamorphosed and designed in live.

Live manipulation of the metamorphosed sound is an organic way that
Aube collaborated with images arising from the metal.

The first track was recorded in Germany.
It is a documentation during the first European tour.
The term "Heavy-Metalic Minimal Ambient" should fit for the music to be expressed.
Sound movement in it reminds us of "Vermiculation" of some internal organs.
The organs should be made with sound, metal and spirit.

The second track comes from the second benefit concert for supporting people
suffered from 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake at Yamamura Salon, Ashiya, Japan.
The music reflects "Floating Spirit of Metal", and would be most appropriate as
an embodiment of "Electronic Zen".
European people gave the nice term for expressing Aube music.

The third track has never been appeared on any recorded medium in public.
The origin of music was recorded in live during the socnd European tour.
The location of the recording was Germany.
An excerpt of music was remastered and appeared here.

This cool track intimated the concept of "Electronic Zen", again.
Metal sounds are metamorphosed from organic pulses reminding us of blood flow
to some floating of spirits - the spirits of metals.

Coexistence of these tracks in a CD reflects a bit of variation that Aube possesses.


The participant who did surprising jobs for the outer/inner cover and the label of the CD
is one of the leading illustrators for Japanese SF and monster stuffs, Yuji Kaida.

He listened to the Aube music in this CD and created the image reflected on the cover.
It is a pure result from his imagination and meditation through his listening experience.


The image on the cover looks like a scene of prophecy.
The metal-like object is floating in spite of its heaviness as a material.

The power making it float might be a cluster of idea generated
from residents in the urban.

The floating should be a result of will of people minding the change of the urban.
And the object itself looks like a brain.

Is the urban on the way of metamorphosis?
It might be metamorphosed for rejecting its change in qualitative level.
The floating materials might be an external memory of the urban.

A friction between the memory and the urban metamorphosis should have
induced the dissociation of the two phenomena.

Akifumi and Yuji were students at Kyoto City University of Arts, ago.
It should be noted when the curtain drops for this tale.



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