Ambivalence, by Yoshinori Hayashi

Ambivalence

by Yoshinori Hayashi

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Andrew Jervis As this Tokyo-based producer's musiquarium proves, Smalltown Supersound are on fire in 2018.

Camryn Marquez This record has kinship in spirit with Ground’s Sunizm album that came out this year on ESP Institute. There is a definite appreciation for collage and abstraction, but I would say perhaps even more so with this album. The textures are brilliant and some of the sounds are unexpected when they peak through in the mix because their emotion seems to contrast so strangely with the overall emotionality of the track. There are so many approaches to crafting sound and deciding how they should be modified to maximize their idiosyncrasies. Favorite track: Palanquin Bearing Monkey.

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1.	Overflow 07:35	buy track
2.	III Chose 00:36	buy track
3.	Palanquin Bearing Monkey 06:09	buy track
4.	Bit Of Garden 06:08	buy track
5.	Downstream 05:35	buy track
6.	0208 13:24	buy track
7.	Flexible Mono 06:26	buy track
8.	Spasm 05:17	buy track
9.	Geckos 05:13

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Smalltown Supersound is proud to be releasing Yoshinori Hayashi’s debut album, Ambivalence, on October 26th. Previous work by the Tokyo-based producer has been called “a complex patchwork of studio gear, live instruments, dusty jazz records and smartly cut library sounds, whose textures are soft and inviting. But its arrangements are constantly ruffled, squeezed, brushed and pinched—which is to say, nothing stays still for long” (Resident Advisor).

Hayashi presents his self-described “collage expression” throughout Ambivalence, which he produced and played in its entirety. Album opener, “Overflow,” is a club track inspired by Cecil Taylor. It’s freeform nature sets the tone for the album’s cosmic, hypnotic, and almost ritualistic approach.

Hayashi has studied under Japanese avant-classical composer Mica Nozawa. When not DJing, he works in a record store in Tokyo. Thus far, Hayashi has released a string of 12”s on labels including Going Good Records, Jinn Records, Lovers Rock, Gravity Grafitti and Moscoman’s Disco Halal.

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Yoshinori Hayashi Tokyo, Japan

Having carved out his own signature avant-disco sound on a string of 12”s on labels such as Going Good Records, Jinn Records, Lovers Rock, Gravity Grafitti and Moscoman’s Disco Halal, Yoshinori Hayashi debut LP, Ambivalence is out October 2018 on Smalltown Supersound. ... more

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