The Last Day on Earth, with works by Midori Hirano and Kris Limbach is a C30 of chrome quality. It was duplicated at home, in real time, using a Marantz CP430. The inlay is an A4 with the complete texts of both scores and the credits.
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There is this person, and that person can be anyone. It can be you; it can be someone you've seen on the street for a very short moment. It can be someone from a long time ago, when you still lived in Japan.
And this is happening on a day that starts in an ordinary way. It is a day like any other day. It is filled with small and big pleasures, but also with small and big pieces of nothingness.
But one thing is not as always. There is not this feeling of boredom, or the tiring feeling that something should be done, not even the gravitation of one's own existence is perceived. It is as if everything, and everything in itself, is without weight. The light, the perception of things, the colours are perceived as gentle pleasant caresses.
This person feels an unhappy happiness as if something is going to happen. And she laughs.
She walks through her room, goes into the hallway, into the kitchen, and looks out of the window.
She looks at all the windows in the courtyard. But one of these windows makes her curious.
She stares and she does not notice that the hours pass, very fast; it is morning, it becomes noon and the evening falls, and she does not notice it.
Then, it is quite early (it is summer), the first lights of the day shine on the walls and roofs, and someone appears at the window. She is not even amazed when she sees herself, who looks at her in exactly the same way.
They look at each other, and now the time goes very slowly, you do not notice how slowly, but in this slow flow, and while looking at this other person who looks exactly like yourself, you notice that you move, and this moving is even slower than time.
She moves so slowly that she loses her body, like a serpent loses his skin.
And suddenly she finds herself between these two people who look at each other.
Although she knows that she is an apparition, she is fully aware that she has to make a decision and choose in which person she should live.
But she also knows that for whomever she will decide, that she has just experienced the Last Day on Earth.
credits
from The Last Day on Earth (complete album),
track released June 16, 2017
"a forlorn solo piano playing heartbreaking music in a very touching manner" says Ed Pinsent in the sound projector
"Hirano, on her side, completely disappears into the composition, the piano taking over as if it’s observing humankind with its melancholy, desperate fragments, watching the end of the end of our destruction as we wipe each other out, because isn’t that what we’re wired to do?" says Ryan Masteller in tabs out.
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supported by 5 fans who also own “The last day on earth”
Hard to pick a favourite on this album of gentle and warm ambient tracks. I think the field recordings are beautiful as well, the whole release reminds me of sunny autumn or spring days in the park. PadraigC
Noisy, unsettling experimental pop in turns touching and political. From now until 3/5, 50% of proceeds go to Planned Parenthood/ACLU. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 8, 2017
