Tetuzi Akiyama – Thaumaturgy [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop in her solo work cole

in her solo work cole uses contact microphones

Form & Feeling’s title is a riff on the philosopher Susanne Langer’s book Feeling and Form

with an incendiary flamboyance

he has been releasing music that inhabits its own artistic universe

The audience played well and some of that gig made it on to this CD

Tetuzi Akiyama – Thaumaturgy [LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop in her solo work cole"The intimacy of Akiyamas Thaumaturgy is immense. In nine short through composed pieces written over a ten year period, Akiyama captures something melodic, simple, and utterly transfixing. In his first instrumental solo acoustic guitar record in more than a decade, Akiyama, widely known for his improvisatory collaborations as well as his hypnotizing boogie drone guitar pieces, here works without effects and maintains a strict harmonic palette