AGF & Various - A Deep Mysterious Tone
Artist: AGF
with: Kyoka, Misumi Mizuki, Ryoko Akama, Tujiko Noriko, Yu Kawabata
Rating: EXCELLENT
Genres: Glitch,  Sound Art,  Spoken Word
Released: 2015
Type: Album
Label: AGF Producktion
Link: Bandcamp
A Deep Mysterious Tone is the third edition in AGFs poetry series, following Gedichterbe [German/2010] and Kuuntele [Finnish/2013]. The series investigates the history of poetry in one particular language from a female perspective. Via current music and sound art practices the poems are reimagined in a 21st century context. Twelve Japanese poets were selected for this issue. Three poets date from the Heian period (794-1185/1192) and the rest are from the Meiji Restoration (when closed Japan finally opened up to the world, starting in 1868) and after. In addition to the Japanese language poets, one piece features the sound of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan. These primarily female stories were interpreted by AGF and her contemporaries Kyoka, Tujiko Noriko, Yu Kawabata and Ryoko Akama, fellow artists and producers she got to know at various music festivals in Europe. The only living poet here is Misumi Mizuki, who reads her work herself....

released June 6, 2015
Editions:
2015 Original Release
AGF Producktion | AGF 020 | CD/Digital
  01. AGF ‐ State of Ainu: Dance (3:44)
02. AGF ‐ Admidst the Notes - Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) (2:41)
03. AGF feat. Ryoko Akama ‐ The Rock and The Rock - Ito Noe (1895-1923) (4:26)
  04. AGF feat. Kyoka ‐ Yugure Wa - Izumi Shikibu (976-?) (3:52)
  05. AGF ‐ For Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) (3:48)
  06. AGF feat. Tujiko Noriko ‐ I Am: New Woman - Hiratsuka Raicho (1886-1971) (4:37)
07. AGF ‐ A Secret Code - Kurahara Shinjiro (1889-1965) (2:32)
08. AGF feat. Yu Kawabata ‐ Oto - The Lady Ki (around 1100) (3:31)
  09. AGF ‐ River of Ice - Tsuboi Shigeji (1897-1975) (3:12)
10. AGF feat. Misumi Mizuki ‐ Complicity - Misumi Mizuki (1981) (3:39)
  11. AGF ‐ Crows of Sapporro (2:05)
12. AGF ‐ If I Could - Ibaraki Noriko (1926-2006) (5:19)
  13. AGF ‐ Falling - Muro Saisei (1889-1962) (3:14)
  14. AGF ‐ Tanka & Haiku (0:48)
  15. AGF ‐ Ono [in dedication to Yoko Ono] - Ono no Komachi (825-900) (2:15)