{"product_id":"geinoh-yamashirogumi-ecophony-gaia-2xlp","title":"Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Gaia 2xLP","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eDeep, deep, earth music from Tsutomu Ōhashi and the Geinoh Yamashirogumi crew. A macrosymphony composed for the International Garden and Greenery Exposition in Osaka, Japan, 1990, \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e, was supposed to be the stunning, aural centerpiece for a light and water performance system echoing the sentiment of the venue: \"Harmonious Coexistence of Nature and Mankind.\" \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e was in its truest essence the final part of a trilogy that began with 1986's \u003cem\u003eEcophony Rinne\u003c\/em\u003e, continued, in 1988, with their most-known work the soundtrack to Katsuhiro Otomo's dystopian, cyber-punk film \u003cem\u003eAkira\u003c\/em\u003e (released as \u003cem\u003eSymphonic Suite Akira\u003c\/em\u003e), and this release mere months later.Looking back one can break up these releases into a holy musical trinity: \u003cem\u003eEcophony Rinne\u003c\/em\u003e = spirit, \u003cem\u003eSymphonic Suite Akira\u003c\/em\u003e = body, and \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e = Gaia\/earth. \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e is Geinoh Yamashirogumi's most hopeful release. Rebirth, the hardest thing to capture in music, is something \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e expounds upon through sonics and feeling. You hear this in light echoes from \u003cem\u003eSymphonic Suite Akira\u003c\/em\u003e coursing through \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e, acting as symbols saying: \"not everything from the past needs to be discarded, that certain things, when rethought of, hold a heavier power.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Japanese Noh music you heard trapezing through \u003cem\u003eAkira\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Illusion\" walks positively untethered in \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Euphony\", Indonesian gong chimes that hit darkly in \u003cem\u003eAkira\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Tetsuo\" transform \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e's \"Catastrophe\" into the light sublime, serene music that it is. What's left over are the songs that point to new directions. Those that derive their influence from things that aren't easily quantifiable. The introduction of field recordings to a warmer palette of sound makes \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e Geinoh Yamashirogumi's first roots album. Of course, these roots belong to worldlier kind of music. Rhythms that sound like water coursing downstream from brook to ocean, electronic layers that hum and cycle through, string instruments that hover like atmosphere, wind instruments that sound like air and breath, and the powerful sound of human voices presenting divinity through communal chant – those all constitute the ecosystem of \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e. Things that you've heard\/felt before, renewed in a different luster. When you hear the album, notice how there are two sides to its whole: \"Chaos\" ending in \"Euphony,\" \"Catastrophe\" ending in \"Gaia.\" It would be a disservice to describe the way it sounds, it's an album based on belief not premonition. All you'll find in \u003cem\u003eEcophony Gaia\u003c\/em\u003e are movements. Hopeful movements. Needed movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invitation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67994792394840,"sku":"uto1793064200467","price":20.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0728\/7734\/2808\/files\/geinoh-yamashirogumi---ecophony-gaia-2xlp_1.jpg?v=1793064205","url":"https:\/\/foglampkit.shop\/products\/geinoh-yamashirogumi-ecophony-gaia-2xlp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}