Heavy Snow by Chihei Hatakeyama

Beautiful landscape of electric guitar and analog synthesizer.
Hatakeyama started making this album in 2015 and then became the first work to fully incorporate modular synthesizer.
The snowy scenery in winter is white anywhere and its creamy sounds seem to fly to the heavenly world.
It is also a sound that makes you feel lonely as if you were left alone with a pot in the majestic nature like Siberia.
The acoustic treatment that wraps around the delays and reverbs that are stretched many times,
Slowly blurred white noise and even hiss noise sounds like a musical tone.

Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist , an organizer and mastering engineer who was born in 1978, and lives in the Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a electric guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006.
Since then his many album was released by Room 40, Under The Spire, Hibernate Records, Magic Book Records, Home Nomal, OwnRecords, Spekk, Dronarivm, Constellation Tatsu, Glacial Movements Records and his own label White Paddy Mountain.
In 2013 Hatakeyama founded the record label White Paddy Montain, which since then has released over 40 recordings by some of the most accomplished musicians and modern ambient musicians, Shoegazer and folk musicians in Japan.
Recent years Hatakeyama continues to evolve his sound by analog synthesizer, modular synthesizer and compact guitar effector. Hatakeyama approaches some modular synthesizer and electric guitar drone project with an expectation of new directions.

http://www.chihei.org/
http://chihei-mastering.com/

white paddy mountain is a small record label based in Japan.
Chihei Hatakeyama is A Sound Artist And Musician Living On The Outskirts Of Tokyo.
http://chihei-mastering.com/

chihei.org