OMNITOPOEIA by IKU SAKAN

*Cassette comes with album download**

I see lucid blue flames moving before my eyes.
I hear voices melting. Voices somewhere from within.
Speaking words I do not know but feel connected to, almost as if I have known the meaning once..
Noises that obscures the multiple pictures hidden in these digital compositions.
Iku Sakan have created a set of five tracks that takes the listener on a
trip deep into the human psyché. Emotional flickering movements that twists and turns. The albums have a darker, much more intense feel than some of Ikus earlier magical and often hypnotic music. A myriad of different voices creates pulsing patterns and constantly morphing pictures for my inner eye. It's an album that might work as a hack to our lingual structures, pushing limits, pushing possibilities of meaning.

A pool of over-saturated information boils and out of the vapor new contours take form.
The magical and hypnotic is not gone, I still recognise the softer aspects of Ikus highly detailed hybrid sound design. But I no longer see where it takes me. It excites me. It feels like the world is expanding again, breathing. The sounds on the album asks us questions and points in several directions at once. In the shadows, weeds of lucid dreams grow deeper roots, reaching for my inner ear.

The faint sounds on the track Nature Morte reminds me of expeditions to the local witch house ruins as a child. Something almost not there, something felt. History, Memories and the connection between the two seems to have played a part in these compositions. Emotional reactions that plant reactions in other people, all around creating soft movements on the face of our planet.

Whether our collective psyché is an open field or an impenetrable dark forest, is of less concern with a key like Omnitopoeia, that works like an enhanced mirror, reflecting the dreams of the words we speak everyday, reflecting the emotional charges of significant places. Unrecognisable but still remembered.

OMNITOPOEIA
[άmnɪṭəpíːə]

composed, produced & mixed by Iku Sakan

at ICECREAM MUSIC, Osaka

MAY 2021 - JAN 2022, JUN - JUL 2023

based on the sound sources recorded and/or collected by the composer in Berlin 2009 - 2015

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“Humanitarian” features contributions from:

Anders Lauge Meldgaard - field recording of a laughing donkey, Burkina Faso
Claus Haxholm - text (recited by I. Sakan)
Daisuke Nishizaki - sh-101
Michael Northam - table harp, voice
Tanaz Modabbar - setar

“Lucid Blue” features a contribution from:

Miki Yui - field recording of whistling frogs in the botanical garden, Potsdam

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