Kashiwa Daisuke - Stella

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 paintings or Dali's melted clocks.

Each piece of glass, its own unique shape, holds inside its own musical motif. Yet as the shapes of glass all fit together, so do the motifs. In this, Daisuke creates organized chaos of epic proportions, perhaps the most epic the electronic world has seen.

http://www.discogs.com/Kashiwa-Daisuke-Program-Music-I/release/1256142

link to picture

http://interfacelift.com/wallpaper/details/2437/on_the_road_again.html

Category:

Music

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• Electronic
• Rock
• Downtempo
• Post Rock
• Experimental
• Kashiwa Daisuke
• harp
• medley
• ambient
• electronica
• sakura
• sound
• noise
• blues
• chill
• destiny
• Starcraft II
• Justin Tv
• ROOTDestiny

[nitroburns]

thank you for sharing! and i am also interessted in this picture :)

[19Darshan63]

@nitroburns

yw and I have put a link to the picture in the info :-)

[Radiatedchimp1]

Awesome song! You gotta post a link for that cool picture in the video!

[19Darshan63]

@Radiatedchimp1

check the info :-)

[SadakoKenookami]

beautiful song...can you pls tell me where did you get the picture?

[19Darshan63]

@SadakoKenookami

check your mail :-))

[oOPeNoOo]

Thank you Steven Bonnell ii

[19Darshan63]

@TheXantaur

You happy = Me happy :-)

[xxjosxx433]

13 mins <3 18 mins <3

[khuang1996]

25:23

[RedundantComments]

@Slimcognito2012 I know I'm going to look stupid now, but I didn't actually to the whole song before writing that comment.

I stick to what I said in my comment regarding the intro, I didn't like the cutting part of that, but I loved the rest. I just skip the first five minutes every time I listen to this.

[Slimcognito2012]

@RedundantComments On the contrary, the cutting adds a type of texture and offcolour feel to the song that keeps the audience interested throughout the whole song. They allow him to build the song at the pace that it does and create an eerie effect through the intro.

[lilriku123]

@JClesexsymbol um... no.

[animetagger1]

This song needs some das keyboard action

[xXcheesemuncherXx]

watching westrice stream

[Tyko9464]

Southgrain.

[JClesexsymbol]

Eastrice?

[HansHugoSarah]

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