風土 · Fūdo Vol. 03 — 碁盤 · Goban
風土 · Fūdo · Vol. 03

碁盤 · Goban

The Grid

The guitars count. A Kyoto voice gets on.

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Prologue · 序

碁盤

The guitars count. Streets cross at right angles; the barline does not.

A Kyoto voice will get on. It will sound like J-pop until you try to tap along.

Listen in order.

Bands · バンド

* Names link to MusicBrainz.

Tracklist · トラックリスト

Runtime ≈ 48:44 (11 tracks )

  1. 01
    The board, no voice yet
    mudy on the 昨晩 — Fashion 2010 3:55
  2. 02
    A voice gets on
    tricot — 初耳 (Hatsumimi) 2013 3:58
  3. 03
    The other trio
    the cabs — タッチ (Touch) 2009 3:49
  4. 04
    A pretty loop. Not an ending
    JYOCHO — 美しい終末サイクル (Utsukushii Shumatsu Cycle) 2018 4:08
  5. 05
    The grid in a smaller room
    水中スピカ — Chamber 2021 4:23
  6. 06
    Candy on the count
    tricot — スキマ (Sukima) 2017 5:16
  7. 07
    Take the voice off
    mudy on the 昨晩 — GHOST DOG 2023 4:08
  8. 08
    What we failed to count
    the cabs — わたしたちの失敗 (Watashitachi no Shippai) 2013 4:12
  9. 09
    Heat in the cabinet
    宇宙コンビニ — 体温 (Taion) 2013 4:55
  10. 10
    Everyone shouts
    the cabs — すべて叫んだ (Subete Sakenda) 2013 6:30
  11. 11
    Goodnight on the grid
    tricot — おやすみ (Oyasumi) 2013 3:30

Curator Notes · キュレーターノート

tricot is the door — Kyoto, 2010, pop melody on a counted grid. This sit imagines the hour around them: the other Japanese sung grid, one instrumental room, and three Kyoto-adjacent sentences that are not 雨女. Listen in order. If nothing clicks, the grid isn’t yours.

Why these cuts
  1. 01 · mudy on the 昨晩 — Fashion

    Opener has to be a grid with no singer. pavilion studio 3:55, Nagoya math, Motifour’s name-source band. Floor, not a statement. Leaves a pattern so 初耳 can put a voice on it.

  2. 02 · tricot — 初耳

    First Kyoto cut, first voice. T H E (2013), 3:58. Not POOL — that cut already rides Tape Hiss. Math already running; first hearing. Cannot follow with another tricot or the door clumps.

  3. 03 · the cabs — タッチ

    Other sung grid. Trio, 変拍子, harsher throat than Ikkyu. Proves the lane is not a one-band primer. Then the sit can ornament.

  4. 04 · JYOCHO — 美しい終末サイクル

    Same length-class as a short sprint, but the title is a cycle, not a run — face that. Voice + technical guitar from the Kyoto start. One cut only. Then leave them or the next song is another long sentence.

  5. 05 · 水中スピカ — Chamber

    Self-described math/post-rock, smaller room, 4:23. Breaks the sung stack before スキマ so the candy cut is a center, not a pile-up of choruses.

  6. 06 · tricot — スキマ

    Spine in the middle, four years later. 3 (2017), 5:16, longest tricot cut in the hour. Same coating, later production — the door is a band, not one album. Then take her off or the next song is an encore.

  7. 07 · mudy on the 昨晩 — GHOST DOG

    Second and last mudy. Voice off, 4:08, An Instrumental. Separates two sung rooms. After this the sit returns to a throat, not another instrumental.

  8. 08 · the cabs — わたしたちの失敗

    4:12. Title aims the station (failure / miscount). Last short cabs room before the long shout — cannot follow with すべて叫んだ or the close is all cabs.

  9. 09 · 宇宙コンビニ — 体温

    The math-rock band JYOCHO’s bio names; vocal, warmer cabinet, 4:55. Body heat after the failure cut so the hour still has a person in it before the shout.

  10. 10 · the cabs — すべて叫んだ

    Longest cut, 再生の風景 studio 6:30. The rush (急). A shout this long cannot close; the sit still needs a dissolve. Do not use the 6:44 demo.

  11. 11 · tricot — おやすみ

    Third and last tricot, T H E, 3:30. Goodnight, lower heat, still counted. Bookend to 初耳: voice on, voice out. Closes the door in a different register than スキマ.