#yamawarau

[luuurien]

Fuubutsushi - Yamawarau (山笑う)

(Ambient Jazz, ECM Style Jazz, Chamber Jazz)

After the first half of Fuubutsushi's seasonal album series was wrapped up in blankets next to the fireplace, the rejuvenation of spring begins to thaw the band into more overtly human territory. Utilizing the human voice and the power of more instruments, more patience, and more wanderlust, Yamawarau easily makes the case for Fuubutsushi's power to make you feel once more.

☆☆☆☆☆

Fuubutsushi, if they've proved anything over the past year, are the only thing you'd need to show someone that being able to sense a musician through their music is one of the best feelings you can ever possibly have. It's more than easy to get that deep, tactile connection in a live setting no matter who you see, but being able to sit down with the same recordings for the fourth, sixteenth, six-hundredth time and still get shivers that trickle down your spine, now that's something incredible. Instrumental music is pretty good at getting this across most of the time, compared to other genres, but it's often carried inside another concept or built around so much other instrumentation that only in spurts will you ever notice it. In that case, it's utterly mercurial a band like this exists at all. Basing their first four albums on one season respectively, Fuubutsushi have been using the world around them for maximum effect. Finally crossing the bridges of windy fall and interior winter, the quick-blooming spring of Yamawarau invites another new batch of dreams for Fuubutsushi to materialize. Taking advantage of the more overt sensory tones spring has in mind: melodic birdsong, rushing rivers and thought-provoking afternoon discussions; while Setsubun and Fuubutsushi's tactility came through instrumentation's atmospheric presence, Yamawarau often gives it to you outright. Chaz Prymek's guitar is picked up by the wind pushed off Chris Jusell's violin on opening track Good Morning Patrick, a song dedicated to the band's multi-instrumental marvel Patrick Shiroishi that removes him from the equation to emphasize just how important he is later on. With each of Fuubutsushi's releases, there's been a particular member who runs the show: on Fuubutsushi it's Matthew Sage's minimalist-styled keyboards that drive the rhythms of each song and allow more experimentation where his percussion and the band's structures were concerned, on Setsubun everything orbited Prymek's lovely guitar solos and run-ins with chattering synthesizers, and on Yamawarau nobody can come close to touching the album's soul as Shiroishi. When he sings on his own atop Sage's teary piano and Prymek's contemplative guitar on Kodama, you cannot take yourself out of the moment. Fuubutsushi's music has always been built on this nervous tenderness, a band working across state lines through the power of the internet while making music so intricate that, thus far, has centered itself on their dreams of a more lovely world when they walk out the front door. Yamawarau now explores the band now opening their windows and finding themselves in a world untouched by anything but wildlife. Hints of human voice glide through the last minute of Mistral, but what you'll really take note of are Shiroishi's steady melodic touches and Sage's restless energy on the drums. Floorless Room's golden vocal harmonies make the piece one of Fuubutsushi's most overtly ambient songs in their discography, the ghost-rhythms of birdsong in the background are the closest thing to a rhythm you'll get over Jusell's slender strings. As the temperature has warmed, so has the band, acclimating to the environment they create together within and subsequently letting their songs explore new territory as long as they return with something back. It's why the seven-minute Kodama is so engrossing, building from an intimate poem from Shiroishi right into the most propulsive and speedy rhythm on the entire thing. It'd be showy if it weren't for how natural this feels: after Fuubutsushi have thrown all their emotions to the wind, all that's left to do is run. In the end, there's less to dig through on Yamawarau compared to their first two releases because of how open-hearted these pieces are, but don't think for a minute that means they lose their impact. Fuubutsushi's success has never come from instrumental complexity, and their biggest accomplishment here is the full embrace of emotional honesty. As Shiroishi toys with a melodica on Cracked Lake, seeing all the possibilities with such a small and peppy instrument, you don't need to look very far into the water to see the magic below. Yamawarau's ecosystem is closer to the shore, allowing human conversation on nostalgia and hope for the future to seep into the final moments of finale Wisconsin Basin. It's not much, but it's there, and it's a pureness we're not accustomed to anymore. Submitting to that calm is a slow process, but now's the perfect time to begin. 

This review is part of the ALL I'VE MISSED: 2021 series, where I catalog the most exciting releases I didn't get to from last year.

[playongivemeexcessofit]

Yamawarau 🀦

Yamawarau (山笑う) is the third in a four-part album cycle by Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, and Patrick Shiroishi. The quartet have continued to refine their signature ambient jazz sound, edging into pastoral and lyrical tones.

Though still approximately “jazz” these songs feel more like a kind of campfire circled by the players. They are propulsive in places, meditative in others, often dynamic, but profoundly radiating light.  

Yamawarau (山笑う) by Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi

[tmphtmt]

yamawarau

草木染めアクセサリーブランド yamawarau

my letter 小澤佐代子さんのブランドです。

10/25〜11/6 東京PARK GALLERYでの展示にあわせて撮影しました。展示ではいくつか写真も飾られるようです、ぜひ足を運んでみてください。

design : 小澤佐代子

model : CHIGON / ミズキ

[birdshummingthebeat]

MOMENT#008 - yamawarau

春の里山のささやくような森のそよぐ音や鳥たちの鳴き声に浮かぶシンプルなアルペジオの上を即興ピアノが美しく舞い優しいアンサンブルを奏でる1曲。

自然の音たちに誘われてめちゃいい曲になってます（笑）

birds humming the beat · MOMENT#008 - yamawarau

[burlveneer-music]

Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi - Yamawarau (山笑う) - new spring-themed album from this ECM-inspired quartet (cachedmedia)

Spring rises from the ground like a spirit full of light and latent pollen. A mountain, laughing, covered in flowers. Yamawarau (山笑う) is the third in a four-part album cycle by Chris Jusell, Chaz Prymek, Matthew Sage, and Patrick Shiroishi… feel free to simply call this group “Fuubutsushi” if you so prefer. What began with their first album, Fuubutsushi, an autumnal ECM jazz suite, led to Setsubun, a warm place to hide from those too-long winter nights. As Spring breaks, the quartet have continued to refine their signature sound, to expand their mutual vocabulary, and to take playful risks together, all while maintaining their social distance.

This collection feels connected to their previous albums, but also feels different; vocal harmonies appear at the center of several songs, both wordlessly and sung beautifully in Japanese. Though still approximately “jazz” these songs feel more like a kind of campfire circled by the players. They are propulsive in places, meditative in others, often dynamic, but profoundly radiating light. What has been said before about this quartet remains true: they collectively cultivate a tenderness when playing together. That tenderness comes from patience, from foregrounding a sense of play, from leaving space and from finding joy in the act of creation as a group. Yamawarau is just that, a joy in cultivation, a smile full of new blossoms.

Chris Jusell: violin, voice Chaz Prymek: guitar, bass, clarinet, synths, samples Matthew Sage: keyboards, percussion, voice, acoustic guitar, field recordings Patrick Shiroishi: trombone, guitar, glockenspiel, tenor and alto sax, laptop, samples, voice   

[yamawaraudyeing-blog]

草木染めのストール 左：藍染　　右：インド茜

[theam-cjsw]

New episode: Monday, May 24, 2021

Rainy day music for the Victoria Day long weekend. This week's A.M. takes a long, meandering stroll through morning mists of ambient jazz and drifting synths, gazes at dream-pop clouds, and splashes in psychedelic puddles along the way. Take a breath of cool morning air, and enjoy.

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Hour One:

Last Breath Body San • Reborn While Shopping

Kodama Fuubutsushi • Yamawarau (山笑う)

The Fellowship Joseph Shabason • The Fellowship

Soon It Will Be Fire Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, featuring Moses Sumney • This Is a Mindfulness Drill

Home for a Dream Qaett • Leavereveal

Supernocturnal User20200202 • The Mind Factory

Real People in Real Places - Reimagined Sun Rain, Alaskan Tapes • Single

Along Deserted Streets Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk • Eight Fragments of an Illusion

Bubble Wrap Absolutely Free • Two Cares Due None

Hour Two:

Hazel and Gold Daniel Avery • Together In Static

Nauczyłaś Mnie Szaio • Obraz

Delicate Tracks Sook-Yin Lee & Adam Litovitz • jooj two

Tonopah Wish Lash • Altar of Doubt

Fish - From Heaven No Joy • Can My Daughter See Me From Heaven

if i am My Bloody Valentine • m b v

new you My Bloody Valentine • m b v

Nothing Ever Changes Art d'Ecco • In Standard Definition

Come Back Down Nevada Brown • Speak Low

Purple World Hair Control • Sled Island Lemonade Stand

Hour Three:

Dhuaan El Michels Affair • Yeti Season

Bismilahi Atagah Mdou Moctar • Afrique Victime

Los Angeles The Los Sundowns • The Los Sundowns

Night Biting Gloria • Sabbat Matters

Blood Sunglaciers • Foreign Bodies

Never Enough Low Hummer • Single

I Ran Away Dinosaur Jr. • Sweep It Into Space

David (I Hope You Don't Mind) Cherry Pickles • Single

Water Brother Chad VanGaalen • World's Most Stressed Out Gardener

Cosmic Radiation Hootenanny Orange Crate Art • Space Age Revelations for the Climax of Spring

Pat Metheny explains why he's working with music robots Skodak • The brain and the bar E​.​P.

[auralthicket]

episode 21: recent roundups

set 1:

Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi -- Good Morning Patrick -- Yamawarau (山笑う) (cachedmedia, 2021)

Cody Yantis -- Argent -- Argent b/w Jupiter (Full Spectrum, 2021)

Valerio Cosi -- Soundproof Album #1 -- Early Archives (self-released, 2016)

Lisa Cameron & Sandy Ewen -- Meerkatstoat -- See Creatures Too (Astral Spirits, 2021)

Michael Foster & Ben Bennett -- resin rain -- Contractions (Astral Spirits, 2021)

set 2:

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt -- Demands of Ordinary Devotion -- Lucy & Aaron (Hanson, 2021)

Vernacular -- The Voodoo Runs Rafeeq Down -- The Little Bird (Astral Spirits, 2021)

Sunburned Hand of the Man -- Tablecloth Trick -- Vulgarisms (self-released, 2021)

Blaine Todd -- Natural Bridge -- Natural Bridge b/w Wellness Tycoon (Full Spectrum, 2021)

set 3:

Sally Decker & Brendan Glasson -- Sheaths -- An Opening (Full Spectrum, 2020)

Rob Frye -- Goldilocks -- Exoplanet (Astral Spirits, 2021)

Landon Caldwell & Flower Head Ensemble -- Woven Realm -- Simultaneous Systems (Moon Glyph, 2021)

[park-tokyo]

【 終了いたしました 】2017年10月25日（水）〜 2017年11月6日（月）/ ホンボン鞄 × yamawarau Exhibition「花に針」

2017年10月25日（水）より、京都を拠点に活動する革鞄作家・辻本まりこによる「ホンボン鞄」、同じく辻本まりこと、おざわさよこ ふたりによる草木染めブランド「yamawarau」によるふたつのブランドの展示会を PARK GALLERY にて開催します。

「手仕事」というもうひとつの「表現」を、この機会にぜひ見に来てください。

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ホンボン鞄 × yamawarau 個展

花に針

2017年10月25日（水）〜 11月6日（月） @ PARK GALLERY（末広町） 東京都千代田区外神田3-5-20

OPEN：13:00 - 20:00 *最終日は月曜も営業です。但し18:00まで CLOSE：MON , TUE 入場無料

http://park-tokyo.com info@park-tokyo.com 070-6482-4186

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yamawarau http://yamawaraudyeing.tumblr.com

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会期中に草木染めのワークショップが開催されます。

ー ちいさな冬支度 絹の靴下とハンカチを染める

2017年11月3日（金・祝）13:00 - 16:00 @ PARK GALLERY（2F） 定員：7名 参加費：2,300円（お茶付き） 内訳：材料費1,300円＋参加費

予約希望される方は

① お名前　 ② 参加人数 ③ メールアドレス ④ 足のサイズ

info@park-tokyo.com まで

[shourakuan-blog]

yamawarau | 山笑う . . . 先日の雨で 山々は瞬く間に春色になってきました。 柿の木の若葉も開き始めています。 工房のつばめ達は相変わらず元気です。 . mountains have started changing their colors since the recent rains. the young leaves of persimmon trees are growing fast. the swallows are full of energy here inside my studio. . . . #nicecompany #potterylife #山笑ふ #陶芸 #工房 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwIcH1Eg1-B/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1joj6cpdf8g9s

[stationeryblog]

@yamawarau さんにもらったおもちゃ、お気に入りでベッドにも持ちこんでるよ‼️😊ありがとう‼️She lives this toy so much and brings it to her bed 🐶💓 #shunauzer #シュナ #シュナ #シュナウザー #保護犬 #里親募集中 #里親募集

[honbonbag-blog]

ホンボン鞄　東京展示販売会のお知らせ

ホンボン鞄 × yamawarau 個展

花に針

2017年10月25日（水）〜 11月6日（月） @ PARK GALLERY（末広町） 東京都千代田区外神田3-5-20

OPEN：13:00 - 20:00 *最終日は月曜も営業です。但し18:00まで CLOSE：MON , TUE 入場無料

http://park-tokyo.com info@park-tokyo.com 070-6482-4186

ぜひお越しください。

[une-ni-ame125]

植物で染めた糸や革をつかってつくるアクセサリーや小物のブランド、yamawarauを立ち上げました。 相方の辻本まりこさんは主に革、わたしは糸をつかって作っています。

[stationeryblog]

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@yamawarau さんがシュナちゃんびプレゼントをくれたよ❣️ピコピコお気に入り🐶💕 My friend gave Shuna chan a present 💝 She love it 😊 #shunauzer #シュナウザー #シュナ #シュナ #里親募集中 #里親募集 #保護犬

[stationeryblog]

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ギネちゃん、こっそりみーこちゃんを嗅ぐ😂🐽 Guinness sneakily smells Miko @yamawarau 🐒 #bernesemountaindog #bernersennen #バーニーズマウンテンドッグ