FACT Magazine contributor Lewis Gordon sits down with rising Japanese sound artist Sugai Ken.
“Sugai Ken’s music has a strong affinity for place. Born and raised in the rich, green suburbs of the Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan, his enveloping, avant-garde music doesn’t slip easily into the country’s pastoral tradition but feels rooted there all the same. Strange electro-acoustic sounds loom from ambient field recordings, offset by shimmering synth-work. It’s a style that hums with the vibrancy of people and tradition, deftly straddling the temporal gap between past and present, myth and reality.”
At Rewire 2018, Sugai Ken performs the vivid electro-acoustic soundscapes of his newly-released RVNG Intl album, ‘UKABAZUMOREZU’. Watch the stunning video for ‘Doujiri’ below and learn more about his performance at: Sugai Ken.
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