Wednesday the 19th of May is the premier release of Kouhei Harada’s “Augapfel” EP on Slow Release Music.
The Launch night will be held at the Kurongkurl Katitjin (KK) Gallery @ ECU Mount Lawley Campus on Central Ave in Mount Lawley.
Kouhei Harada’s Augapfel EP is a lush world of sound, filled with warm acoustics and disembodied environments flickering between a field of digital transmissions.
Born in Tokyo in 1983 Kouhei Harada is a Japanese sound artist who uses field recordings, acoustic instruments and modified guitar that is processed and arranged through the use of Max/MSP programming to deconstruct and re-construct new acousmatic worlds filled with beautiful layers of melodic noise. Harada see’s the concepts of Glitch not as a style or a type of sound but as moments of sound caught in time and space. Harada studied Anthropology & Philosophy in Tamagawa University, having been influenced by German philosophers Arnold Gehlen, Anti-Illusionism & French philosopher Gilles Deleuze’s Mille Plateaux (1980 – Deleuze & Guattari) Harada turned to composition.
In 2006, he formed the side project “SAWADA + HARADA and by 2006 Harada Played as a closing act for the Avantgarde Festival organized by legendary German Krautrockers FAUST. 2009 saw Kouhei Harada tour Australia which led to his current signing to Western Australian Label Slow Release. http://slowrelease.waapamusic.com/
The Augapfel EP and many other great Slow Release Music Releases can be previewed and purchased online at http://slowrelease.waapamusic.com/
Slow Release is a music label based at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University in Mount Lawley, Western Australia. Established in 2009, the label releases music by staff, senior students and visiting artists to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
The label is run by third year students from the Bachelor of Music (Music Technology) overseen by an editorial board of WAAPA staff. The label structure reflects the expertise of the Music Department at WAAPA and covers Jazz, Classical, Contemporary and New Music genres.
Kouhei Harada – Abrutschen (taken from Augapfel EP) by Slow Release Music
“In the Mood For Jazz“
“Being in the big cities like Tokyo and New York means you spend a lot of time on the subway. The reason behind the title The G Train was that when I was in New York I was going to Brooklyn to check out a lot of the more underground gigs. The best way for me to get to Brooklyn was to connect to the G Train – a suburban line from Queens to Brooklyn. It was on some of those colourful late night jazz journeys on the G Train that I decided to follow this train theme with the album. You get to sit and think a lot when you are on the train – something not so common when I am in Perth – and I think that’s when the ideas were really hatching for me. It was the sounds, the smells, the interesting characters – freaks – and the whole hustle and bustle of New York.”
