{"id":30146,"date":"2025-07-21T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/?post_type=product&#038;p=30146"},"modified":"2025-10-07T16:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T16:28:03","slug":"arc00348","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/product\/arc00348\/","title":{"rendered":"theAdelaidean: UTSURU (Live at Knock Koenji, Tokyo, 2025) (Digital)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album= 3261588414\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless> <a href=\"https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/utsuru-live-in-tokyo-2025\"> UTSURU <\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"hideme\">\n1. TOKORO (Live at Knock Koenji, Tokyo, 2025) 25:15<br \/>\n2. TOKORO Rehearsal (Live at Tokyo University, Tokyo, 2025) 44:54<br \/>\n3. TOKORO Reflected (Live at Australia House, Niigata, 2025) 30:18<br \/>\n4. TOKORO Excerpt (Live at Knock Koenji, Tokyo, 2025) 05:18\n<\/div>\n<p><BR>Recorded on a cool, wet night in Tokyo, this performance by theAdelaidean (aka #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sean Williams) weaves the many threads of his May release\u00a0<B>Tokoro<\/B>\u00a0into one sonic tapestry of electronic pulses, elusive melodies and layered ambient textures.<\/p>\n<p><BR>A review of\u00a0<B>Tokoro<\/B>\u00a0by Rich Dodgin from\u00a0This is Darkness:\u00a0\u201cThe latest album from theAdelaidean blends subtle field recordings and minimalistic synths and electronics to provide an immersive aural portrait of life in Japan. The music here is dreamlike, otherworldly, with a sense of wonder and beauty running through it. Listening to the music is a soothing and reflective experience, and this is one of those beautiful albums that deserves to be listened to on headphones, with no distractions, so that the music can be savoured. Outstanding!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><BR>The opportunity to perform this expansive work (the\u00a0<B>Tokoro<\/B>\u00a0album spans over three hours) in front of a live audience while in Japan was irresistible. TheAdelaidean performed on the opening night of Naviar Record\u2019s second tour of Japan on the same bill as sound artist Nukomori Eugene and ambient superstar Chihei Hatakeyama in the intimate space of Jun Kitamura\u2019s Knock Koenji.<\/p>\n<p><BR>Recomposing\u00a0<B>Tokoro<\/B>\u00a0for a much shorter length of time\u00a0without sacrificing too many of its layers upon layers of ambient textures was a considerable creative challenge, one met through weeks of iteration and experimentation, creating a living document of theAdelaidean\u2019s final months in Japan. Also included is a rehearsal that lasts twice as long,\u00a0a subsequent iteration composed one month later in Australia House at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, and a short excerpt for curators.<\/p>\n<p><BR>The title\u00a0<B>Unsure<\/B>\u00a0comes from the title of one of the cornerstone tracks from\u00a0<B>Tokoro<\/B>: \u201cCherry Blossom Petals Falling \/ Forever \/ Shinjuku Billboard.&#8221; This haiku, translated into Japanese by Hugh Nettelbeck, with oversight by Shimauchi Ran and Rosemary Dean, reads:\u2028\u2028<BR>\u6563\u308b\u685c<br \/>\n\u6c38\u9060\u306b\u6620\u308b<br \/>\n\u770b\u677f\u3088<\/p>\n<p><BR>The characters \u6620\u308b in the second line, or \u201cutsuru\u201d in romaji, mean \u201creflected\u201d, which seems fitting for an album capturing the multi-layered immersion that is life in Tokyo.\u2028<br \/>\n<BR>With additional thanks to Marco Sebastiano, Jun Kitamura and Michael Williams from the Knock Koenji event; Sugai Ken for the use of his field recordings; Yoko Arakawa, Sumie-san, Takeuchi-san and Kobayashi-san at Australia House; and Bec Allen, Hitomi Toku and Janine Pitt of the Australian Embassy Tokyo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/assets\/images\/DigitalOnly.png width=400><\/p>\n<h3>Projekt release: July 18 2025<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=https:\/\/projektrecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/utsuru-live-in-tokyo-2025 TARGET=BLANK><IMG SRC=\/store\/assets\/images\/Button-Bandcamp.png width=129><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[50,556,149,49,831],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-30146","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-ambient","product_cat-digital","product_cat-drone","product_cat-electronic","product_cat-theadelaidean","pa_artist-theadelaidean","pa_format-digital","pa_label-projekt-archive","pa_release-year-983","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple","border"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/30146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=30146"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=30146"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.projekt.com\/store\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=30146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}