Description:	Japanese CD in A5 pack on Trumn
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Trumn
	Price:	£13.89
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

4
...according to our Brett on 03 September 2009.

The CD on Trumn Ant got to review had loads of amazing stuff written on it about sitting down and really liking basses but mine doesn't. C'est la vie. Entropy is by Yui Onodera and while the title would aptly describes the lack of action in many an ambient release there's a fair bit going on here: moods range from Celer-like bliss to eerie nighttime electronics, while interest is added with brief, skittering spurts of percussion and the odd little field recording moment. Nice is the tall Raster Noton-like foldy card packaging and good are the sounds.

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Sound clips for Entropy by Yui Onodera: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Trumn, T02, £13.89.

What their label says...

‘Entropy’ by Japanese artist Yui Onodera, is the second release by
label, Trumn. It was released simultaneously with Tamaru’s ‘Figure’,
but explores an entirely different scope of artistry. With the gentle
melody of guitar, the sound is most entrancing, absolutely warming,
and as emotive as ever. Gliding into audibility with gentleness and
grace, it reminds one of snapshot moments from another world. The
unique packaging completes the entire album as a fitting visual
complementing the equally distinctive music.


--- review

Yui Onodera's first solo work, Entropy, first appeared on the
Tokyo-based producer's own Critical Path label in 2005 but quickly
sold out, making it thereafter a much sought-after item. We can
therefore thank Hideho Takemasa for making it one of the first
releases on his newly-created Trumn imprint. Onodera generated the
album's ten micro-ambient settings (all untitled) between 2004 and
2005 using field recordings, electronics, and electric guitar as sound
sources that subsequently were subjected to computer processing. The
resultant electro-acoustic pieces are soothing and serene and very
much reminiscent of releases by 12k and Line.

The opening track is dominated by blurry cloud-like fields of electric
guitar, while others feature soft whistling drones, shimmering
organ-like pools, wavering wind tones, and clusters of tiny percussive
rattles and speckled noises. Entropy also will appeal to fans of
Celer's work (apparently, during the past couple of years, Onodera has
been collaborating respectively with Celer, The Beautiful
Schizophonic, and Exit in Grey, no results of which have yet been made
public). Mention must be made of the presentation of the release.
Designed by Ricks Ang and April Lee (aka aspidistrafly), Entropy comes
in a large-format, tri-fold sleeve graced by landscape photos taken in
South Africa by Erica Lai. The distinctive packaging is a fitting
visual complement to the equally distinctive musical content.
(Textura)