Beatrice Dillon 'Basho'The title of this work by Beatrice Dillon is taken from the notion of 'basho', developed by Kitaro Nishida, Japanese philosopher and father of the Kyoto school. Kitaro's 'basho' (??) refers to a fundamental 'place' or 'field' where things exist and interact. Not just a physical location, but a more abstract space where all experiences, thoughts, and phenomena are interconnected. In Nishida's philosophy, 'basho' is a dynamic, living ground where subject and object, self and world, are not separate but mutually interrelated. Inspired by this, Beatrice Dillon develops a music of a complex nature, that never ceases to constitute itself as pure presentation, constantly re-exposed, reactivating at every moment both the object of attention and the listener who aims at it. Borrowing both its sounds (which have no real origin or internal space) and its idioms from electronic music, Dillon's Basho is a diversion, a rearrangement that places us, through elements that are familiar but suddenly alien, back into a field of pure listening.Hideki Umezawa 'Still Forms'Still Forms, by Japanese composer Hideki Umezawa, draws its sound material from the exploration of Baschet sound structures, instruments developed by the brothers Bernard and Fran ois Baschet in the 1950s that have since been highly prized by the world of contemporary musical creation. These structures were presented at the 1970 Osaka World's Fair, and some remained in Japan. Through various recording TracksDetailsCatalogue Number: SPGRM012LPFormat: Vinyl LPArtist: Beatrice Dillon & Hideki UmezawaRelease Date: 02 May 2025Genre: RockLabel: Portraits GRM/Shelter PressDistributor: Rocket Group
