专辑简介

We are really happy about Haruki´s new “Snowed in food shelter” release on our small community.
Haruki is a new face to klanggold but an old face to the experimental and ambient scene, worldwide.
 He released records on Kaspar Hauser records, Thelandof, Hibernate recs as well as Nomadic kids republic and now also on Klanggold.
His “snowed in food shelter” is a  logical showstopper of his last Album “to humble a nest”, released on thelandof.
This new album is just a way of working further in that vein of amorphous, organic, free floating kind of music, mixing acoustic and digital sound sources, “beautiful” and “annoying”, ….. Only this time he wanted to make the atmosphere more consistent, more focused, less wandering around different places, maybe even “smaller” or “quieter”;  or limiting himself more to explore a specific atmosphere in depth. This is also reflected in the sound sources used, which are less diverse than on “To Humble A Nest”. There’s, for instance, a much more prominent role for piano-sounds on this one. some reviews: by dark entries: Despite the crisis in the music industry there are a lot of new experimental labels popping up, which evidently has to do a lot with the DIY principle. Now you can add the German Klanggold to the list. A first look into their release catalogue reveals that I don’t know any of their artists, but, as the saying goes, unknown is unloved … And this certainly goes for this Haruki, an artist that surrounds himself with drones, ambient noises and, from time to time, atmospheric piano fragments, as you know them from The Moon & The Melodies. The music is excruciatingly slow (but never boring) wich makes you feel like walking around in a museum of sounds. This cd is rather short. Where drone music often leads to long-drawn-out tracks, Haruki restricts the album to its essence: to lead you into another world. Not suited for everyone, but, then again, we assume you are not just any one … by chain dlk: Haruki is one of the artist who are trying to mix acoustic and digital sound sources. His music is constructed using two lines: one line is a soundscape (noisy or drone), the other is the resonance of an acoustic instrument. This could sound simple but, because he doesn’t juxtapose, when the resonance sink into the soundscape, the music has its charme. The album has five songs “Animals all over the table” where sharp guitar notes color large grains of noise; “a chair is for reaching out” with a clarinet and a calmer sounscape introuduces us to a quieter listening experience. The album ends with “how to bend over in 5 movements” with softly nuances of resonance. “Your flowers are dripping” and “There are things we should have talked about” are doomy pieces based on piano resonance which act as a bridge to the various atmospheres of the record. This is, unfortunately, a brief album, just half an hour, but a good pick if you like calm records to relax after a working day. by remote_thoughts: It’s fair to say that I rather like Haruki’s work. Having thoroughly enjoyed both of his recent releases on The Land Of and Hibernate I was excited to hear this new album on Germany’s Klanggold imprint. Using a range of digital and acoustic sources the most immediately noticeable aspect of this work is the way it portrays a more gentle side of his character. The other releases I’ve heard definitely tended more towards a wide range of sonic elements with, dare I say it, a more playful overall style. This, however, remains tightly focused and concentrates on certain instruments as motifs, the piano and guitar for example, that recur from track to track. It’s a deeply introspective sounding piece of work, from the tender touches of melody to the haunting and decidedly melancholic layers. It had me looking inwards whilst listening to it and I think it really is supposed to imbue the listener with a tangible feeling of sadness. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know. The delicacy with which the piano refrains are played and processed is beautiful and it almost reaches into William Basinski territory at times with a hypnotic flow and grainy sounds. But instead of staying static it uses the gentlest of movements to guide the tracks along. A hint of bassoon here, a reversed chord there, acres of space for the sound to swim around you, a cunningly unstructured sounding style that I imagine is actually painstakingly put together… all of these things combine to make a very personal album that fans of the quieter side of contemporary ambient electronic music should really enjoy. Subtle, deep, lovingly crafted. An album of substance from this excellent artist.