XW5005CD

Seijiro Murayama , Michael Northam

MORIENDO RENASCOR

*comes in gatefold sleeves made from thick and weighted brown recycled paper.
*includes a handwritten text of a poem by Lionel Marchetti. Poem was inspired by Moriendo Renascor.

“Between 2003 and 2004 - Michael Northam and Seijiro Murayama met a
few times in Switzerland and France. One artifact of their meetings,
‘They Stood Around and Watched’ a 20 min CDr was published by universinternational.
A more comprehensive and extended document of these
meetings has finally made its way in the form of ‘Moriendo Renascor.’

Seeded from composted recordings taken in Lisbon, Portugal and
Astoria, Oregon. Northam offered heavily mixed sources during these
meetings. Selections were made by trying to find segments of activated
sonic ‘matter’ then finally to be passed through the ears and hands of
Murayama. An awkward meeting perhaps - tangential - yet something
else.  A shared desire to find some shared experience through the
medium of sound.

During the process of creation the two took drives out to the Jura in
Switzerland and through rural France and passed some terse moments
arguing the finer points of the unlikely meeting between a densely
planned acousmatic ‘composter’ and a highly disciplined improvisor. A
discussion that ended up producing four enigmatic tracks.

‘Moriendo Renascor’ - a term taken from a southern French dialect -
meaning ‘in death, rebirth’”