Opposite

by Taku Sugimoto

Opposite cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Hat Hut
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 48:00
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A deeply uncompromising exercise in acoustic restraint, this solo guitar recording fundamentally shaped the Japanese onkyo movement. Taku Sugimoto plays incredibly sparse, atonal notes separated by vast stretches of silence, actively forcing the listener to focus as much on the quiet decay of the strings as on the actual plucking.

Genres

Descriptors: minimalistic, acoustic, instrumental, atonal, avant-garde, experimental, minimal, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Mirrors (1:08)
  2. Bells Of... (4:05)
  3. Flagments of Happiness (1:35)
  4. Spoon River I (3:57)
  5. Spring (3:22)
  6. Midnoon (1:43)
  7. Opposite (0:45)
  8. Subtle (1:37)
  9. Birds of Afternoon (1:32)
  10. Stained Glass Windows (1:21)
  11. A Narrow Path (1:32)
  12. Transylvania (2:34)
  13. Paris (1:31)
  14. Spoon River II (3:17)
  15. Monad (8:49)
  16. Treading (2:22)
  17. Pale Light (1:33)
  18. A Day Book (2:04)
  19. At the Corner (2:01)
  20. To Ward (1:11)

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