Ai Yamamoto - Pan De Sonic - Iso (2021)
Artist: Ai Yamamoto
Title: Pan De Sonic - Iso
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Room40
Genre: Ambient
Quality: 24bit-44,1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 28:21
Total Size: 292 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
TracklistTitle: Pan De Sonic - Iso
Year Of Release: 2021
Label: Room40
Genre: Ambient
Quality: 24bit-44,1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 28:21
Total Size: 292 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Waking up – Alarm, podcast, kettle (01:29)
2. Start of the day - Toaster, water, Gas, cutting apple, chopstick, glass, cup, bowl, knife, hand mixer, kids, cat (03:18)
3. Ritual – Brushing (00:30)
4. Late morning - Remote learning and house chores, remote working (washing machine, vacuum cleaner, printing, typing, clicking, pencil, paper, cup, glass bottle (04:52)
5. Afternoon exercise - tennis, walking, trampoline, beer can, frog, more (02:58)
6. Wine glass assembly waltz (Wine glass) (01:10)
7. Evening Night fall - Fire, cricket, wine glass etc (11:12)
8. Gigi's lullaby (cat purr and melody with wine bottle) (02:52)
In Melbourne, the city in which I live with my family, we faced an extended period of lockdown in 2020.
During these long winter months, I recorded a lot of samples of my iso life from morning to night. As the process wore on I became quite fascinated with these sounds, some of them so familiar and domestic that I decided to turn them into music.
All the sounds of this album are made strictly from materials coming from these domestic field recordings. Even though parts are quite melodic and tonal, no instruments were used at all. It is a sound diary and one whose sounds would be familiar for many people living in Melbourne. The sounds of morning, the chatter of remote learning, the ceaseless flow of house chores, physical activity in our brief moments outside and evenings where we all just try to wind down.
Those days were all about routine, and the mundane qualities of life became a kind of daily ritual that was full of repetition and loops. These are the spark for this album and it becomes a document of this curious moment in time that will linger with us all going forward.