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ma ta ta bi

by Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda

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This is the duo's first album. It was selected in The Wire's best 50 albums in 2014.

Japanese sound artists Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda present a unique opportunity to experience the innovative artists’ sonic and spatial explorations. Though they differ in generation and performance practice, the NYC-based Onda (b. 1967) and the Kyotango-based Suzuki (b. 1941) share an astonishingly inventive, open-ended, and spontaneous approach to the infinite and variegated possibilities of sound. Since initiating a collaborative relationship in 2005, the duo have embarked on a number of tours in Europe and Asia, exploring site-specific locations ranging from an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Brussels to an underground parking lot in Glasgow. Suzuki and Onda released their first album “ma ta ta bi” on ORAL_records in 2014 and the second album “ke I te ki” on Room 40 in 2018.

Onda and Suzuki perform by utilizing unconventional and self-made instruments including analog cassette Walkmans and radios, found pieces of wood, nails, hammers, buckets, marbles, and glass jars, allowing the individual architecture and acoustics of the various sites to guide the flow and development of the performances. Each performance will begin with the artists in the middle of the space, surrounded by the audience, before gradually moving throughout the environment as the performance unfolds.

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released July 22, 2020

Akio Suzuki: ANALAPOS, De Koolmees, stones, wood pieces, nails, hammer, room echo, bottles etc...
Aki Onda: radios, walkmans, amps, tape echo, cymbals, bottles etc...

Music by Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda
Recorded by Eric Mattson at Black Buddah, Tuned City Brussels on June 30, 2013 Edited and Mixed by Aki Onda in Brooklyn
Mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at TurtleTone Studio, New York City
Design and booklet photography by Eric Mattson
Texts by Akio Suzuki and Aki Onda, Carsten Stabenow (artistic director Tuned City)
Cover photography by Rebecca Shatwell
Drawing by Akio Suzuki

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Aki Onda Mito, Japan

Aki Onda is an artist and composer. His musical and visual works are often catalyzed by and structured around memories—personal, collective, historical—such as his widely-known project "Cassette Memories", drawn from three decades of field recordings (or, as Onda refers to them, ‘sound diaries’). After residing in New York for many years, he currently lives and works in Mito, Japan. ... more

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