St. GIGA - Tide of Sound Archive (90's Japanese ambient/new-age/house radio)

it really is

and yeah the official stuff is all their custom made field recordings that they mix in (which, interestingly, seems to really fuck up the auto-song ID apps like Shazam)

there's also this st. giga-adjacent thing:
https://www.fondsound.com/4%E2%84%83-christmas-suite-1992/

ATTN: NYC ppl Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano: a tribute to St. GIGA Night #1 with Strugglin' + a pre show artist conversation moderated by Sadie Starnes

THANK YOU I am a billion percent there because of course but also because I'll be heading to Japan soon afterwards! What perfect timing.

There's a second NYC night tonight
https://dice.fm/event/m78ev-visible-cloaks-yoshio-ojima-satsuki-shibano-a-tribute-to-st-giga-night-2-with-ucc-harlo-afterparty-featuring-dj-healthy-28th-sep-public-records-new-york-tickets?lng=en-US

Show was great! Only planned on the first night - had a wonderful time.

Could you tell me a little more about it? I'm probably not going since i have tonsilitis, it's far away, it's expensive and i start work at 11pm... but i've been thinking about going for weeks, idk

(it's bacterial, i'm not contagious)

Well there was an interview with Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano about the origins of St. GIGA which was interesting - nothing mind blowing - but nice to hear about their philosophy behind the concept and the timing, meant to calm anxieties of the Japanese people at the time, the conceptual programming that was intentionally trying to sync up with the tides and the moon etc.

Then Strugglin' came on, did an interesting musique concrète performance that was very good, followed by Visible Cloaks + Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano playing their material they collaborated on in 2019 which I actually had not listened to before. They had experimental imagery projected behind them as they played and yes they sounded fantastic. Picked up the LP afterwards and got it signed by Yoshio & Satsuki.

Yeah it was expensive for sure but I felt like I had to go due to the obsession with the archives and my trip coming up in a WEEK.

went to this last night too. that summarizes it well tho I personally wish there wasn't an opener, just to keep things moving.

I'd say go if you can. I mean, how many times is something like this gonna happen?

thanks Evan! i didn't make it out there but that record (which i didn't know about) is very nice- none of the FRKWYS releases i've heard disappointed me yet

just got out of this — lovely. opener ucc Harlo was really great too

I'd say go if you can. I mean, how many times is something like this gonna happen?

yeah now that i'm aware of Ojima's and Shibano's role in the original broadcasts, i'm sorry i didn't go. would have had to leave at least 30-40 mins early tho, going on the timestamp on churl's post

^digging into their collaborative discography today and it dovetails nicely with my recent Satie obsession.

Shibano's 'Rendez Vous' my immediate favorite but it's early

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SEQcJt0vc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrehcTeCXS4