Tomonari Nozaki - Une Histoire De Bleu flac mp3 download

In any film, you'll come across one or perhaps two moments where the director's vision burns right out of the celluloid and into your mind. Depending on how effective the said director is at integrating those beats into the rest of the proceedings will determine how good of a production you're watching. These fleeting, frozen frames are elusive at the very best and illusory at worst. Tomonari Nozaki has, with his album, made the auditory equivalent of a movie that is nothing but those intensely smoldering cinematic yearnings. Each second is an expansive, intuitive descent into what makes our blood curdle, boil and run cold all at once.Une Histoire de Blue is a profoundly sad, forlorn piece of work. Each chapter a series of regrets, every thunderous wave which breaks upon your ears is a lamentation. What once was, what could have been, where things stand now, the one who never requited what was given them. I hear this kind of artistry rarely in my line of work, it is all too easy to just thrown down a couple layers of formless drone then tinker in a few random noises and call it good. But this release here contains fully-formed, extremely articulate compositions where the field recordings flow imperceptibly into what Nozaki has channeled out of his machineryLoss is the main arena Nozaki is working within, all of his sounds and structures contain a slowly decaying core; the soundtrack of a satellite descending out of orbit with the lifeless, inert crew forever frozen in place at their stations. Watching. Waiting. Wailing. I cannot help but come away from hearing this with a very heavy heart. The tantalized memories of one person's understanding of what the color blue can mean. Is this in reference to the film? I could not tell you but the sense of cataclysm and sudden rupture from life are undeniable. We may have both a meditation on all the different meanings of what it is to exist in this realm and also an alternate score to a movie which was easily the strongest act to a three film epic that resonates to this day.No matter, however, let us return to what Mr. Nozaki has given us. It is described as an excursion into the sublime, which is pretty close to the mark. There are much much more than simple synonymic anagrams going on within these four chapters (the four stages of life? the four cycles of civilization? the four seasons on the calendar?)I'll leave that with the listeners fortunate enough to hear this... for me they are four exquisitely designed, shape-shifting takes on the very nature of reality. Everything is transitory, this will give you something to hold on to.