 Hello everyone,I am Shinobu Nemoto, MOUFU-ROKUON is a small label releasing my work. MOUFU-ROKUON = BLANKEY-RECORDINGS. I play the electric guitar and live in japan with a bird, a dog, two cats and a broken tape recorders. - I want to live with the orangutang and the chimpanzee some time - It was piano that I did play first. However, I kicked piano at 13 years old and have begun to goddamn turn an electric guitar, I formed a band and enjoyed a roaring sound, my guitar always did howling... I worked as an assistant of Noriyuki Haraguchi of the Japanese contemporary artist at one time. He was not a musician, but I learned most from him. I love him and much respect. I am in charge of a guitar and a vocal in "Josef [K]", "SUMMONS OF SHINING RUINS" is my guitar solo by old memory, "DARK SIDE OF THE AUDIO SYSTEM" is an experiment with a broken recorder and tape loops. And, I record the improvisation of the guitar and field recordings by "SHINOBU NEMOTO" name. I do not use a PC (DAW) for recording. My sound vibration is POST-BINARY/PC in all. Many thanks for your support of the work. Kindest regards, Shinobu Nemoto |
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NEWS
01/2010 My studio "MOUFU-ROKUON" Article in Beat magazine (02 2010 issue). 12/2009 SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #1 was reviewed in THE WIRE (#311 issue). |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - Self title 200701 Boy is surrounded by old friends and stopping at loggia, It seem to be the mausoleum built from early time for him (11:26) 02 Facade was burnt down, glass cracks innumerably and diffused reflection, How did I come here? (11:42) 03 Summons of shining ruins (11:23) 04 Golden road, flower bloomed all over, It was only it and quiet (9:27) 05 Appearance had changed a little when I awoke, Understood it, I was left (8:26) 06 Strange shine between existence and nothing (7:15) 07 JobÅfs letter was not opened (7:54) 08 God's nation / God's people (6:42) It seems that Shinobu and I were meant to cross paths at some point or another - he got in touch with me and Wordsalad after he bought my "Of The Apple" CD in a record store in Japan, and after a little emailing. he shared this record with me which is simply epic and mindblowing to say the least. It's some of the best guitar-based drone/doom/noise I've heard since I discovered Boris (and no, I'm not just connecting him to them because of the Japanese thing). Brian Grainger (milieu) This is the first record of - Summons of Shining Ruins - Each tune was inspired with my first memories.The ruins had burnt down. It is an innumerable crack in the glass. The light of the sunbeam at a low position shone on the ruins. Crazy power of diffused reflection. I was standing in front of the ruins when noticing by chance. I was a kid. And now, shining ruins summons me again. I used the electric guitar, tape echo and some stomp boxes and those sounds were recorded by 4-track. I love organic saturated sound and physical glitch. The electric guitars is an extremely analog, noisy instruments and it has much possibility. Shinobu Nemoto Very rarely do we hear an album that sounds so emotionally complicated that you're almost drawn to tears over how frail it is, and how lucky you are to hear it. Summons Of Shining Ruins is such an experience. Shinobu Nemoto treads a charred black landscape, picking up burnt fragments of his childhood and carefully threading them together into a hazy history for us to observe. Being a collector of all sorts of vintage recording equipment, this album is a massive display of Shinobu's masterful way with guitars and tapes. There is a prevailing sadness in this album, almost like Nemoto has resigned himself to an eternity of loss and decay, completely and utterly tethered to a void that overtakes everything. INSTALL Dedicate to Hasuda Naoki Label : INSTALL INST003 CD / Jewel case Cover photo : J Adams / Click for CD details / BUY |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - Summons of Shining Ruins 2 200801 His pupil was finished open, all in white, only it (8:28) 02 You better bury Ned right You better not cut up nor otherwise harm no whores Or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches (8:30) 03 Yellow star means death. Why did they pick yellow? Sunflowers. Van Gogh killed himself. This drawing stinks. So what? No one sees it. Some day you'll make a good drawing. I hope, I hope, I hope... (5:49) 04 Night And Fog (4:40) 05 I went down that river when I was kid. There's a place.. in the river..I cant remember...Must have been a gardeniaplantation at one time. All wild and overgrown now, but about five miles you'd think that heaven just fell on the earth in the form of gardenias...(3:21) 06 Rosebud (9:00) 07 Deep blue sky, Deep blue air (6:14) 08 Can't you hear this ghastly scream surrounding us that people call silence? (8:05) I was going to acquire a real and raw noise sound on this record with an electric guitar and I did play of a melody to be opposed to it by the noise sound. I wanted to make real Apocalypse music and to see the beacon of hope there (However, I am not a Christian). Do you hear a beautiful sounds from this album? Or hear a real sounds from there? I recorded the sounds in reel to reel of 1 inch with an electric guitar, some analog effects and loops. The painting of the cover is painter Frauke Boggasch in Germany. She had a very excellent matiere and had stayed in Japan several years ago. Shinobu Nemoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd-005 Second Edition Limited 50 CDR / Jewel case Cover paintings : Frauke Boggasch Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - HELL'S VIEWS 200801 VIEW 1 (6:48) 02 VIEW 2 (5:50) 03 VIEW 3 (6:06) 04 VIEW 4 (7:07) 05 VIEW 5 (7:24) 06 VIEW 6 (6:58) 07 VIEW 7 (8:19) 08 VIEW 8 (8:07) 09 VIEW 9 (3:45) 10 VIEW 10 (7:41) Is wanting sometimes to be burnt by the conflagration of the hell only me? I enjoyed by this record enough, and I completely burnt. Dark drone and heavy riff appears alternately on this record. Anyway, play at high volume and do the full voice shout!! Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd-010 Second Edition Limited 50 CDR / Jewel case Cover drawing : J Adams Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - HEAVEN'S SMELLS 200801 HEAVEN'S SMELLS (32:18) This record should say collaboration of me and Jason. I repeatedly had the dream of a yellow heaven in childhood. An extremely beautiful place there. However, my feelings despaired completely. The awesome drawings of Jason reminds of the island where Seirenes inhabits. The singing voice of Seirenes was so fascinating, but all the people who listened to the song died. The island where Seirenes lived in looked very beautiful in a long distance. However, there were a human corpses and a many skeletons there. I made 1 long song with guitar and piano. It was recorded on reel to reel of 1/2 inch. Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd-012 Second Edition Limited 50 CDR / Jewel case with 6 pages booklet Cover & booklet drawings : J Adams Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - BIRD REQUIEM 200901 SONG 1 - UTA (3:47) 02 SONG 2 - MES (5:24) 03 SONG 3 - DEBU (5:53) 04 SONG 4 - UTYU (5:52) 05 SONG 5 - HEL (7:12) 06 SONG 6 - UTAN (6:22) 07 SONG 7 - PONKORI (5:11) 08 SONG 8 - MESUTYU (7:49) 09 SONG - 9 BONDAI (5:35) Analog Vibrations. That points into the right direction. Summons of Shining Ruins is a project of Shinobu Nemoto, who works with electric guitartape delay, old rhythm machines, stompboxes and 4-track-recorders. No computer or software is used to record this work. And you can hear that in every tone."BIRD REQUIEM" sounds at the first listen extremly raw. You can not define what you hear in the first moment. But everything sounds a bit haunting, hidden under a layer of dust. But the longer you listen, the more you can feel how warm everything sounds and how spirited this work is. You can point out subtle melodies, coming to you through this thick curtain build by delay over delay and tone over tone. You can hear the rhythm machine, ticking and rumbling from the past. And at some points you can imaging voices or shapes, floating by. To follow Shinobu's advice: Listen to it loud and feel the analog vibration. Christian Roth Some of the best remixes are incidental, accidental, chance. Think of the way a favorite song sounds on an unfamiliar stereo system. Or when a specific moment of a CD (an ever so brief segment) chooses to go, anarchically, into manic loop mode on a restaurant’s creaky stereo system. Or how inadequate radio reception can transform an innocuous pop hit into something clandestine. All of the seven pieces that comprise Bird Requiem, by Summons of Shining Ruins (aka Shinobu Nemoto), are heavily distorted melodies, heard through numerous filters and decaying techniques that render the original as some rough-hewn, world-weary document. Case in point the garbled, shaky thing that is “Utan” , which has the same sort of sense of sonic withdrawal that informed Gavin Bryars’s Jesus’s Blood, the half-conscious jitters of a soul going through rapid, unsolicited detox. Marc Weidenbaum « J’ai toujours vécu avec beaucoup d’oiseaux, aujourd’hui ils sont partis ». Shinobu Nemoto aka Summons of Shining Ruins fait partie de ces musiciens qui illustrent le regain d’intérêt de ces dernières années pour l’analogique. Cela est en partie lié au fait que le son organique, le bruit et l’imperfection créent une atmosphère particulière qui inspire bon nombre de compositeurs à proposer des œuvres intimistes, donnant libre cours à leur imagination. Bird Requiem se compose de sept morceaux à la guitare électrique hautement saturée. A la première écoute, on se trouve confronté à une opacité musicale due à un son très étouffé. Or, au delà de cette couche rugueuse qui enveloppe les morceaux, chaque composition abrite une douceur imprévue et une mélodie envoûtante venant des profondeurs. La touche simpliste de Shinobu Nemoto se révèle ici comme une envie de revenir sur ses propres souvenirs d’enfance, désormais « en ruines » comme il le dit lui-même. La musique apparaît comme un médium particulièrement efficace lui permettant de révoquer les impressions et de réaliser ainsi un véritable travail de mémoire. Bird Requiem est comme une prière secrète, extrêmement touchante, prononcée dans l’intimité mais qui s’adresse à toutes les âmes habitées par ce sentiment qu’est la nostalgie. Pinkushion I had lived with a lot of birds ever, now, they were gone. This music is a requiem for birds. What is the meaning we get over sadness and keeps walking? The church where the flame still blazes. But there has already burnt down. This songs were declared there. By the way, what does one sound of the cassette have? It is a smile in one word. Totally useless smile... Shinobu Nemoto Recorded at MOUFU-ROKUON on guitar, recorded in old reel to reel / January 2009. / Dedicate to N. Manabu Label : Humming Conch conch 004 Cassette Tape / Cover Photo : Shinobu Nemoto with Ileun Cho, Artwork done by Christian Roth Click for CASSETTE details / BUY The first seven tracks of this release are also available as free download via Resting Bell: RB060 - Summons of Shining Ruins - BIRD REQUIEM |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - ILEUN 2009!01 oido - winter (8:24) 02 jimbo & euna (7:42) 03 absolute crying (12:29) 04 ILEUN (7:39) 05 sits alone (5:28) 06 do not know where to go.. Late-night panic (5:46) 07 eyes closed, feels light, quiet.. quiet... (10:27) 08 enoshima - summer This album is different from a usual SUMMONS album a little. I tried to see through the unknown smell, sign and feeling and I made an effort in order to exclude a lie from there thoroughly. Did I bring it close to truth? Everything was always already shining. Should I make music? The feeling of the bit of hope was awesome than that of the imagination. That was found at everywhere. On the way where I begin and walk. In a limited time. Break a mirror! You should see on the other side.. Offered to your smile. Shinobu Nemoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd-015 Limited 50 CDR / Jewel case / Click for CD details US$13 / JPyen1300 Shipping is included |
 Summons of Shining Ruins - The Deadly Sins 2009 Soon!01 Pride (6:36) 02 Envy (9:17) 03 Wrath (4:11) 04 Sloth (5:57) 05 Greed (6:03) 06 Gluttony (4:15) 07 Lust (4:55) 08 Melancolia (3:28) 09 Oblivion (7:15) The sound that was compressed so as to seem to choke. The form of the deadly sins origin that's ambiguous is blinked while trembling. The feedback of the surplus self-reference lets dark pus gush out from there. "Un si funeste dsir" copies the state greedy for an unshapely pleasure correctly in VERTICAL DRONE which writhes. Even the fragment of healing is not included in this music. All obsession lets threatening air vibrate dimly and spits out a sound. This music is isolated from light and wants light, that sounds vertically. A hopeless act and narcissism without the end. We stuck to the trap we prepared. This album was made to sneak from there and it is iconoclasm. Remove all images! Shinobu Nemoto Label : Under The Spire Recordings |
| Summons of Shining Ruins - BUD VARIATIONS 2009 Soon! 01 Variation 1 (3:54) 02 Variation 2 (3:19) 03 Variation 3 (3:23) 04 Variation 4 (3:29) 05 Variation 5 (4:23) 06 Variation 6 (1:58) 07 Variation 7 (4:25) 08 Variation 8 (3:45) 09 Variation 9 (3:48) 10 Variation 10 (5:14) I have already gotten along with the old friend while tremble in the morning haze.I hadn't woken up yet. I kept dreaming a dream of the soft mild bud in the peaceful bedroom. I listened to the sound that a little bubble burst open, and listened to the sound which I could hear from the other side of the surrounding wall and which stayed dully. I couldn't understand that meaning though seemed somewhat to tell me. That is the same now, too. I didn't probably want to move from there. Then, the bud of the dream didn't bloom. Shinobu Nemoto Label : dead pilot records |
| Summons of Shining Ruins - ****** 2009 Soon! 01 HIRAGANA / HIRAGANA (9:00) 02 HOSHIWOMIRU / STARGAZE (8:22) 03 KUCHI / MOUTH (8:27) 04 ME / EYE (8:03) 05 IE / HOME (8:08) 06 MIMI / EAR (9:16) 07 RAKUDA / EASY (8:28) 08 AI / LOVE (8:23) It's played obediently. That's everything. I think nothing. That's everything. An effort isn't made. That's everything. A war is the end. That's everything. I look at a star and hope. That's everything. Hiragana is remembered. That's everything. Eye, ear and the mouth. That's everything. I'm homeless. Is there love? Easy. That's everything. Shinobu Nemoto Label : Song Title : Ileun Cho / Dedicate to Kuniko Shoji |
DARK SIDE OF THE AUDIO SYSTEM |
 Dark Side of The Audio System - loop collections 1 200801 loop 1 (7:16) 02 loop 2 (7:16) 03 loop 3 (7:16) 04 loop 4 (7:16) 05 loop 5 (7:16) 06 loop 6 (7:16) 07 loop 7 (7:16) 08 loop 8 (7:16) I use the broken recorder and I like dismantling a machine. The inside of an old recorder is a architecture-like. I become a dwarf and search for the inside. The scenery is barbarous, but comfortable and I am ecstasy for a noise to sound from the various places. I did not record music with this broken recorder. This CD is a work that amplifies the sound of a broken recorder and the loop running with feeding back. I did not think wanted to add something a musical element there. There was already all there. I was fascinating by barbarous scenery and sound there. In a sense this is field recording. Shinobu Nemoto He was interested in the dark side of audio and the movement of a machine broken than the machine which worked normally. The situation that control is impossible, or the movement that is impossible of a prediction and outside of the program. How is the energy of the exercise saved? A certain structure and the surplus. He was excited whenever he came across it.The broken machine is new type of life, and the sound is seeding. MOUFU-ROKUON Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd - 003 Limited 25 CDR / Jewel case Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included |
 Dark Side of The Audio System - loop collections 2 200801 loop 1(7:12) 02 loop 2 (7:12) 03 loop 3 (7:12) 04 loop 4 (7:12) 05 loop 5 (7:12) 06 loop 6 (7:12) 07 loop 7 (7:12) 08 loop 8 (7:12) The second loop collections of - dark side of the audio system - . He began various experiments by using SONY TC 357 reel to reel. This recorder is very old ( It was made at the early 1970, its really tattered machine ). And, it is a hotbed of electric glitch and physical glitch. The sound of this recorder very from far away and the glitch occurs by close at hand. He was possessed by this fascinating ambivalent. And, the improvisation of the piano was recorded with this reel to reel. Afterwards, dozens of loops were made based on it. He got a lot of discoveries by this process. This experiment of - dark side of the audio system - will continue. MOUFU-ROKUON Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd - 004 Limited 25 CDR / Jewel case Cover photo : Jaime Mtzz Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included |
 Dark Side of The Audio System - loop collections 3 200801 loop 1 (7:13) 02 loop 2 (6:45) 03 loop 3 (7:19) 04 loop 4 (7:06) 05 loop 5 (6:23) 06 loop 6 (6:51) 07 loop 7 (6:24) 08 loop 8 (6:57) Loop Collections 3 is the record ran tow loops at the same time. I did live mixing of sounds of tow loops. These are eerie loops. And, differentiation does loops to two reel to reel. Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd - 011 Limited 25 CDR / Jewel case Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen 1000 Shipping is included |
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SHINOBU NEMOTO |
 SHINOBU NEMOTO - Elephant Talks 4CDs 200801 Elephant Talks 1 (30:00) 02 Elephant Talks 2 (30:00) 03 Elephant Talks 3 (30:00) 04 Elephant Talks 4 (30:00) 05 Elephant Talks 5 (30:00) 06 Elephant Talks 6 (30:00) 07 Elephant Talks 7 (25:30) 08 Elephant Talks 8 (23:30) Elephants are doing the communication with super-low, I was thinking about it for a long time. The speed of super-low is dull we do not hear of the sound directly. However, the vibration of the sound advances slowly toward the distant place. I tried what kind of influence this super-low had on us. This record handles a low frequency band mainly, there does not have the gorgeous high bandwidth and a lot of super low of the silence is included in there. Turn on the power if you have subwoofer, and do play by the high volume as much as possible. what will happen there? Please experience it by yourself. I recorded the sound of electric guitar by 4-track. Shinobu Nemoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON : mocd - 006-9 Limited 25 4CDR / Jewel case Click for CD details US$12 / JPyen1200 Shipping is included |
 SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #1 200901 18:55 09 jan. 2009 (21:28) 02 13:33 11 jan. 2009 (12:47) 03 11:46 13 jan. 2009 (17:23) 04 16:27 14 jan. 2009 (16:07) 05 22:34 14 jan. 2009 (16:16) An epic album by Japanese artist Shinobu Nemoto, Improvisations #1 showcases Shinobu's ability to create beautiful and interesting sonic textures using minimal means. Using only an electric guitar, stomp boxes, and recording to a 4-track with no overdubs Improvisations #1 delivers 5 massive pieces. Recorded in January of 2009 each piece initially soft and subtle build and layer gradually into powerful and intense guitar noise drones. Jeremy Bible Shinobu Nemoto is one of the more colourful newcomers on Japan's exciting Sound Art scene. His studio looks like a maquette of Stockhausen's workplace in the 60s, a modularly convoluted wall of broken tape-recorders, cassette decks, various control units with secretive purposes, stomp boxes and plastic devices which look like Fisher-Price toys rather than musical instruments. He has recorded a 4CD-set of "elephant talk", a massive zoo-sonic collection aimed at extreme bass-listening ("Turn on the power if you have a subwoofer, and do turn up the volume as high as possible. What will happen there?", he naively asks on his webpage). And his discography includes a variety of pseudonyms and projects, including works by his experimental Punk-band Josef [K]. Just like the famous character of Kafka's novel, Nemoto sometimes feels alienated from the world outside, but rather than withdrawing into gloom and darkness, he is using music and a philosophical outlook to create an inspiring, upbeat and colourful creative cosmos that is full of surprises: "I don't plan anything", he explains his process, "I don't like pre-established harmony. It is boring." And so, all pieces on "Improvisations #1" (out now on Experimedia) may have been recorded with the same equipment, but they never once yield the same results. Noise, deep drones, Ambient bliss and even bluesy Guitar solos are combining into an intense listening trip of very physical qualities - even if you do not crank up the volume to the max. Tobias Fischer The five long, noisy drones on Improvisations #1 were recorded live, in one take onto a 4-track by Japanese artist Shinobu Nemoto using only electric guitar and Åfstomp boxesÅf. The first response to these vast pieces is disbelief at their simple construction, as thereÅfs a wealth of mysterious activity going on. Each piece moves gradually from whispered hum to grand squall, the towering feedback augmented with assorted clinks and blips, presumably from the stomp box. ThereÅfs a nod to Krautrock in the mystical shimmer, and the likes of Main and Flying Saucer Attack in basic construction, and an aesthetic akin to contemporaries Sunn O))), minus the metal posturing. For all the ruckus Improvisations #1 sits comfortably alongside Experimedia colleagues Billy Gomberg and Sylvie Walder, ambivalent sound poised between genial approachability and sinister malevolence. Joshua Meggitt Improvisations #1 by Japanese artist Shinobu Nemoto trumps the other Experimedia releases in at least one obvious regard, as all five of its settings clock in at running times between thirteen and twenty minutes. The material was recorded in its entirety over five days in January, 2009 and was recorded to a 4-track with no overdubs and using electric guitar and stomp boxes only. What Nemoto does, however, with such minimal means is rather amazing. There's some sameness of approachÅ\each piece begins quietly and gradually swells in volume and intensityÅ\but the impact is strong nevertheless. Representative of the five, the twenty-minute opener starts placidly enough, as elements arrange themselves into a peaceful mass, but things change at the five-minute mark when the volume and intensity of the droning mass both increase and the guitars begin to bleed and smolder. With the whole now churning at a powerful pitch, Nemoto counters the controlled violence of that churn by adding the swoop of a slide guitarÅ\a lulling presence that's constantly on the verge of being swallowed by the ever-building mass. The second piece blossoms like a psychedelic swirl until its semi-violent careen is crowned by razor-edged sheets of electric guitar tones, the third resembles a recording of Nemoto playing an extended electric guitar solo at the center of a wind tunnel, and the stuttering fourth ebbs and flows like immense ocean waves. The fifth parts company with the others in its menacing and macabre ambiance, as Nemoto stretches deep, brooding tones like the kind one might hear in a horror movie soundtrack across the track's scarred terrain. The awesome, wrist-slashing wail that the piece eventually rises to would no doubt make Xela envious were John Twells to hear it. textura The second of the Experimedia releases comes from Shinobu Nemoto and it’s an absolute blinder I have to say. I wasn’t 100% what to expect when I put it on, but I’m pretty sure I wasn’t expecting to be almost blown out of my seat by one of the most intense guitar drone releases I’ve heard in some time. I almost had to think of Belong (if you remember that – awesome album) for the sheer depth of the layers on offer but in most respects this is a pretty different beast. The pieces (five of them) are simply named after the time and date they were recorded, I assume, and I like the ambiguous nature of that – it allows you to fill in a lot of the details for yourself which is always a pleasing way of listening to an album. Things begin very much as they mean to go on by slowly building up a layered guitar sound with a touch of distortion and plenty of effects and it all spirals its way upwards and outwards into one hell of a gorgeous wall of sound. There’s a hint of shoegaze to some of the extended note melodies and the sound of the percussive effects in the background have something of the quality of waves crashing over rocks – they accentuate the flow of the chords and layers to amazing effect. Then halfway through things get a lot more subaquatic with a spellbindingly muted track that takes all the best elements of the style of the first two pieces and then filters them down so it feels like you’re listening underwater. Supremely nice. And then it’s back into the more uplifting sounds again with an almost spiritual, choral work that shimmers and shines. A super way to follow such a melancholy track. And then as we hit the final work it’s back to melancholy again with possibly the most dramatic and enigmatic piece on the album. Intense is barely the word for this and every time I put it on I’m glued to the speakers by the sheer energy that’s been put into it. I love the fact that this album is so robust yet so absolutely beautiful at the same time. Truly brilliant from beginning to end. Highly recommended. Smallfish Records This Japanese guitarist would have been much better off calling this record anything other than Improvisations #1. To be fair, these five extended pieces of drone smolder are technically improvised, but they sure as hell do not sound like the improvisations of Keiji Haino, Tetuzi Akiyama, Masayuki Takayanagi or any other giants of Japanese improv guitar bruitism. Shinobu's work recalls much more of the post-shoegazing excursions that you would get from Explosions In The Sky, Tarentel (circa From Bone To Satellite), and even some of Machinefabriek's constructions. As we mentioned, Shinobu does technically improvise each of these tracks, although it might be better stated that be records these pieces in single takes, collecting loops through his arsenal of pedals and layering them into these architecturally dense mounds of compacted fuzz, drone, and noise all blurred into a beautifully shoegazing atmosphere. The first track builds a warm enveloping haze on top of which Shinobu plops a rich piece of slide guitar work, that gives this track train-chugging-through-desert-valley-at-sunset type of cinematic scope. The second piece takes a slightly darker arc that billows with bioluminescence and distantly mechanoid pulsations. Again, Shinobu continues darker still throughout the album with the ensuing tracks, as the guitars become more spectral, more laced with shadow, and heavier on the low end frequencies. Here, you'll find more references to Troum or Aidan Baker, in terms of a darker take on the ambience. With the fourth track, Shinobu brightens everything with a guitar driven variation on the Gas / Pop Ambient sound that's very, very nice. Afterwards, the darkened murk and shadow returns on the finale, a majestically black piece of ambience. So so cold. Experimedia has been turning up some pretty amazing artists from around the world that previously we had never heard of, and this album is certainly one of the gems in their increasingly prolific catalogue of releases. Aquarius Records I used the electric guitar, some stomp boxes and those sounds were recorded by 4-track, no overdub.Enjoy. This album was reviewed in THE WIRE (#311). Label : EXPERIMEDIA / BUY / Click for CD details / SHINOBU NEMOTO Interview by Tobias Fischer |
| SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #2 2009 Soon! 01 21:38 27 Nov. 2009 (15:15) 02 22:04 27 Nov. 2009 (15:15) 03 22:35 27 Nov. 2009 (19:32) 04 22:57 27 Nov. 2009 (17:33) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in old reel to reel. Label : |
| SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #3 2009 Soon! 01 16:27 28 Nov. 2009 (14:59) 02 17:14 28 Nov. 2009 (13:56) 03 18:14 28 Nov. 2009 (15:16) 04 18:34 28 Nov. 2009 (11:19) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in old reel to reel. Label : |
| SHINOBU - Improvisations #4 2009 Soon! 01 18:56 28 Nov. 2009 (12:26) 02 19:22 28 Nov. 2009 (12:34) 03 19:49 28 Nov. 2009 (13:34) 04 21:48 28 Nov. 2009 (10:57) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in old reel to reel. Label : |
| SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #5 2009 Soon! 01 21:32 29 Nov. 2009 (64:41) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in 4 track. Label : |
| SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #6 2009 Soon! 01 20:18 30 Nov. 2009 (62:28) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in 4 track. Label : |
| SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #7 2009 Soon! 01 19:27 03 Dec 2009 + 19:48 03 Dec 2009 + 20:12 03 Dec 2009 + 20:35 03 Dec 2009 = 15:15 04 Dec 2009 (15:46) 02 01 19:27 03 Dec 2009 + 19:48 03 Dec 2009 + 20:12 03 Dec 2009 + 20:35 03 Dec 2009 = 15:57 04 Dec 2009 (31:57) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in 4 old reel to reels.. Label : |
| SHINOBU NEMOTO - Improvisations #8 2009 Soon! 01 22:10 03 Dec 2009 + 22:31 03 Dec 2009 + 22:48 03 Dec 2009 + 23:08 03 Dec 2009 = 16:17 04 Dec 2009 (15:20) 02 22:10 03 Dec 2009 + 22:31 03 Dec 2009 + 22:48 03 Dec 2009 + 23:08 03 Dec 2009 = 16:57 04 Dec 2009 (30:21) I played an electric guitar and recorded it in 4 old reel to reels.. Label : |
COLLABORATIONS |
01 His head had beams like star beams (8:40) 02 Headless (7:28) 03 Dimensions of height are mind seduction (6:34) 04 UFO or DIE (5:53) 05 DISPEL SPACE-TIME LUST (6:12) 06 The ax is sharpened and makes a needle (5:48) 07 Blood Will Sing (5:23) 08 Purple Boots (6:32) 09 still early though late (6:18) 10 Indicates, not looking for (5:21) "The music of Jason & Shinobu is like a heavy green atomic cloud filled with howling spectres. A great ball of flames rises from the abandoned lakeand electrifies the clouds." Jason Adams This record is collaboration of Jason Adams (HEPTANGULAR) and Shinobu Nemoto (Summons of Shining Ruins). We met on the Internet accidentally. There was a common point in the music we created. We had a psychedelic, raw and organic sound, noisy and obscurity. We began collaboration at the next day. We played a guitar and scattered a noise. The words were unnecessary for our collaboration. Shinobu Nemoto Unholy decibel levels: DISPEL SPACE-TIME LUST by the collaborative duo of Jason Adams (Heptangular, Wordsalad) and Shinobu Nemoto (Summons Of Shining Ruins). Both heavy and heartbreaking, Dispel showcases the strengths of both artists in a powerful way...sad, violin-like swells of guitar give way to mangled and desolate atmospherics, while on other tracks we seem to be locked inside an aural prison of blackness, smog and the scent of burnt hair. The recording itself also seems to have been significantly damaged, with crusts of tape noise and warping throughout, giving us the feeling that Jason and Shinobu consecrated the master tapes in a fiery ritual inside a cave on Mars. Fans of both Shinobu's work as Summons as well as Jason's work as Heptangular (see below) would likely find this album to be an essential body of work, and one worth hearing for anyone who loves massive onslaughts of guitars writhing in and out of a bleak universe, conjured by two very seasoned mages. INSTALL Another week, another fine drone/ambient release, this one is from Jason and Shinobu through the mercurial Install. Slow waves of evocative drifting textures are randomly assaulted by sinister outbursts of grizzled fuzz, creeping up the sides of the stately walls like curious splashes of acid whilst someone in the distance metrononically taps a length of piping in an echo chamber. Further investigation reveals a CD that is quite bleak & industrial, kinda post apocalyptic. The sounds on 'Headless', for instance, seem corroded, decaying, creaking, rusting yet incredibly thought provoking, later I hear skeletal feedbacking tones and the disembodied fuzz of some malfunctioning transmitter, that electroid chirruping I love so much with plenty of cool industrial clanking & scraping from a way away - all this I find both strangely comforting & peacful! I think the appeal of this release is the sound displacement, noise & sound detritus seemingly coming from various distances, through walls and floors, other dimensions. A really absorbing release from a top quality stable. NORMAN RECORDS Label : INSTALL Cover design : J Adams / Click for CD details / BUY |
 Brian Grainger & Shinobu Nemoto 200801 Arihagne (7:11) 02 Night Shards (8:34) 03 Lethe (8:47) 04 Smoke (8:11) 05 Red Sun (5:43) 06 Hanging Garden (7:35) 07 Sirenes (7:39) 08 Sleeping Village (6:19) A new collaborative record with Shinobu Nemoto (also known as Summons Of Shining Ruins) that was principally conceived and recorded from Spring to Fall 2008. I've been a longtime admirer of Shinobu's work (and his expansive studio) and this album is really something special to me because of it. Outside of my work with David Tagg in VCV, I haven't really "clicked" with another guitarist THIS well, until now. Musically it has to be one of the saddest, most achingly beautiful guitar albums I've ever heard...but it isn't just limited to guitars either; Shinobu plays piano on a track, and I played organ and bass in addition to my guitar parts. It isn't really that far off from something like "Of The Apple" as far as sad melodies and textural overload goes, and it's also close to things like the first two VCV records or "Porous Variations" in parts where the drone overtakes everything. Thanks to Shinobu's inimitable style that really shines through the fog here making this one of my favorite releases of the year, without a doubt. Brian Grainger This record is collaboration by Brian Grainger (Milieu) and Shinobu Nemoto (Summon of Shining Ruins). My guitar sounds and "Brian Tone" fused very well. When we lived in the same town, we would surely form a band. We do anything only with the guitar. And, Cho Cho gave the chance to make us this record. (Cho Cho is a cat living with Brian, we were going to record it for our pets at first. Thank you Cho Cho!!). I talk about nothing else. Music talks all. Shinobu Nemoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON : mocd-013 Limited 25 CDR / Jewel case Cover design : Brian Grainge Click for CD details US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included / SOLD OUT!! This album will be re-releasing from dead pilot records soon. |
 DANIELLE & SHINOBU 'S LABORATORY - An Extra Terrestrial Tourist's Guide To Earth 200901 Crayon Roar (8:11) 02 boiling point hypnosis (5:23) 03 beet sandwhich (5:55) 04 preschool for dollar bills (7:42) 05 hate love and serendipity (4:30) 06 wish wasi (3:21) 07 clock talk (3:19) 08 a butterflydrinking tea (7:30) 09 exfoliating bumble bee (3:01) This record is collaboration of Danielle Demos (owl dreams) and Shinobu Nemoto (Summons of Shining Ruins). The Terrestrial Tourist is a sonic journey from the perspective of the alien visitor, coming down to Earth. The alien has no preconceived notions of the way things are but the sheer reaction of everything being unfiltered and foreign and new. Planting its energy in this foreign land it can perceive with out categories, labels and stereotypes. It gets confused at times from the overwhelming amount of incomprehensible stimuli. It sees our way of life here and our lust for money and ravishing greed. It hears and breathes in the dissonance from all corners of the planet. The confusion the hurts. The pluses and minuses. Time is the unsolidified master of all of this as it whittles everything away to the point of death, breaking room for new life, new frontiers, new ideas. Humans are mysterious creatures that want nothing more then love deep down yet spread so much hate, cruelty and desperately strive to one up each other. Danielle Demos We were aliens, lived in your backyard. We may still live in there. You should check out there. Shinobu Nmoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON : mocd-014 Limited 25 / Click for CD details / Cover art : Danielle Demos US$10 / JPyen1000 Shipping is included |
JOSEF [K] |
 Josef [K] - SPIRYTUS 200501 introduction 02 spirytus 03 1982 04 second nation 05 stone 06 far east empire factory 07 fourth eyese 08 sunshine 09 lawrence of arabia 10 dubthree 11 puluppu This is the first record of - Josef [K] - Its called SPIRYTUS. Josef [K] started as a punk band of the three-piece. They stayed in the home, and started recording afterwards. They succeeded in packing this record with all of their spirit. They did not adopt unity bythe structure and tone with this album. It is intentional. They were suicide persons for drunkenness and only recording was the help. This work searched for new order and the possibility of the houserecording. This is an experimental work. Please shuffle it and enjoy.! MOUFU-ROKUON There is the standard that a work is formed as music, It is one unwritten law. At first we doubted the standard. Because the standard is worthless.Do not want to persist in a trifling style. We hate predetermined harmony, generalized standard and we respect an experiment than the experience. In that sense, this album is experimental and methodical. The Integration feeling of one album is a problem of the recognition of the listener. It happens in listener's mind through the sense organ. Stop persisting in a dull style. Feel most more freely and the music is creation. Shinobu Nemoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd - 001 US$12 JPyen1200 Shipping is included Limited 100 Click for CD details Josef [K] |
 Josef [K] - KARAKARA-GARAGARA 200601 be head 02 karakara_garagara 03 RXA 04 world is complete 05 air_bondai 07 god. rid. 06 NHK Archives 08 P.B.R. 09 illuminated china 10 july 7 11howling This is the second record of - Josef [K] - Its called KARAKARA - GARAGARA. What is the krkarakara_garagara? It is secret. Because it is a code. "karakara_garagara" is nostalgia, and Seed, Surprise, Epic, Throb feeling, Possibility, Hand of saving, Despair, Blink of star and It is a new start during a day. It is self-dismantled in a determinate outline. We will say, "karakara_garagara" instead of 'Good morning". Only "There are three tomatoes on the table, and surprise that I am ahead of that" this is "karakara_garagara". This is music of hope. Please shuffle it and enjoy. MOUFU-ROKUON We drank only spirits. Therefore previous work "SPIRYTUS" was a watery sound. However, the sound of this "KARAKARA - GARAGARA"is dry. This album is our dead body. Our spirit disappeared. We were cremated. We who became smokes from the chimney rose and it was scattered in whole town. However, it is harmless lethal ash. We experimentally used various methods for this album. Shinobu Nemoto Label : MOUFU-ROKUON mocd - 002 US$12 / JPyen1200 Shipping is included Limited 100 Click for CD details Josef [K] |
TAE |
 T A E - Solo Recordings 200701 Festival of the backyard 02 JUMP 03 I put much thought on the green grassy plain 04 GOLDEN VOYAGE 05 Anger turns into tears 06 Super Awakening 07 Spirit 08 You are free 09 Vacant night 10 I ride on the cloud and do a trip TAE made this music with her friend MUNEKAWA in the days of the teens (TAE is a bassist of Josef [K] now). TAE wrote lyrics and sang and played a harmonica. MUNEKAWA plays the other part. TAE ride the cloud which swirled and she sang the throb of the life. TAE loved Jim Morrison and danced like Edie Sedgwicke. MUNEKAWA was crazy about Joy Division. They were going to never understand the life. It does not still change. She never does the work for money. However, TAE began a part-time job recently. Is it thought to be her human growth? No, it is wrong. TAE and MUNEKAWA hate The military forces and the factory. TAE loves comics and a small animal. TAE, you know your right. MOUFU-ROKUON TAE Solo Recordings 2007 Label : MOUFU-ROKUON : mo - 001 Cover drawing : TAE |
