All in all For A Fleeting Moment is a serene minimal lowercase ambient exploration that will ravish followers of zen-inspired ambient aesthetics from classy Japanese sound designers such as Hiroshi Yoshimura and Yoshio Ojima, but also those who come across the production of LINE Records (notably referring to the slow motion sound architectures of Manja Ristić, Richard Chartier, and Olivier Alary.
Through spacious inner rooms of deep quietness
IIKKI is a sub label of Brittany based publisher laaps whose catalog is widely recommended for avid listeners of adventurous microtonal, scenic and ambient-esque reveries, giving a space to confirmed sound artists such Offthesky, Benoît Pioulard, and Arovane, but also promising new electronic music artisans. To this date one of my favorites is the spellbinding and uplifting melancholic modern classical No More Darkness, No More Night by Danny Clay (laaps, 2024). I discovered the work of Nakamura a while ago with his album Literarure (laaps, 2020). If the previous releases were processing to a sentient cross between semi acoustic folkish sounds and soothing ambient waves, this new effort admits a more abstract and minimal direction but always to transport our soul and heart through spacious inner rooms of deep quietness.
It appears that those micro detailed organic sceneries develop similar moods and movements to the lowercase genre (defended by Steve Roden and Bernhard Günter) because of the electro-acoustic technic and use of silence or almost imperceptible sound motifs. All in all For A Fleeting Moment is a serene minimal lowercase ambient exploration that will ravish followers of zen-inspired ambient aesthetics from classy Japanese sound designers such as Hiroshi Yoshimura and Yoshio Ojima, but also those who come across the production of LINE Records (notably referring to the slow motion sound architectures of Manja Ristić, Richard Chartier, and Olivier Alary.
For A Fleeting Moment is available on IIKKI. [Bandcamp]
