The Boy from Sasebo, by A Vague Gardener

The Boy from Sasebo

by A Vague Gardener

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1.	Coin Locker Babies 04:07	buy track
2.	Lines 03:56	buy track
3.	Kyoko 07:30	buy track
4.	War Begins Beyond the Sea 05:53	buy track
5.	Almost Transparent Blue 04:09	buy track
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'The Boy from Sasebo' [佐世保から来た少年 : 村上龍] is an immersion deep into the work of the Japanese writer Ryū Murakami. Through seven of his books (from 1976 to 1998), A Vague Gardener aims to create a motley reconstruction of Murakami's universe, a dripping and glittering maelstrom where pain and love are angry sisters. Crossing ambient territories and electronic arpeggios, this project in an ode to a sincerely disturbing author. It ain't hard to tell that Murakami announced and described with his literature the modern wandering of our globalized youth, and the human appetence for cruelty, risk and destruction. What if you're lost, exhausted, shameful and depressed ? Read Murakami, and you will realize that you're not alone. Never alone again in this jungle of trash.

"There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting death ; and the other was that as long as you could still hear your heart beating, you had to keep fighting back."
― Ryū Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

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released March 8, 2019

☼ Composed and mixed by A Vague Gardener
Mastered by Catartsis at Studio Bergère, 75009 PARIS

Track 1 : chant sample from 'Sansho the Bailiff', Mizoguchi 1954 - Zushiō song
Track 4 : chant sample from japanese WWII military song 'Senyu'
Track 7 : field recording fron japanese seafood market near Fukuyama ; koto sample from Nanae Yoshimura

ARTWORK : from a photography by Ryū Murakami himself. 'Lili', cover of his novel 'Almost Transparent Blue'

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