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Hiroshima EP

by Site Nonsite

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Andy Moorhouse
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Andy Moorhouse A truly moving artwork, incredibly evocative. The music alone is wonderful (and it seems amazing that Simon has not been making music for long - a talent), but put together with the stories and artefacts it becomes a deeper experience; it almost feels like we’re intruding on something very personal. I am eagerly awaiting the next instalment. Favorite track: Shimmering City.
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Chris Glass Simon Collison created something that's hard to encapsulate. In one breath, it's an EP of atmospheric music, but as you dig deeper you find it's a diary, a love letter and a reflection, a different way to experience a place. Favorite track: Hotel Sunroute.
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clagnut I really didn't know what to expect as a first release, but this is a lovely piece of ambient electronica reminiscent of Erland Cooper. I think I'll be turning to it a lot. Liking your work, Colly. Favorite track: Paper Cranes.
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"One of my favourite tape series in recent years... a wonderful multimedia project.”—Lippy Kid, Electronic Odyssey

The first of four multimedia projects documenting experiences in Japanese cities, this EP is a love letter to Hiroshima, a city writing a new history.

1. Shimmering City diarises a return to Hiroshima in 2018, following the first visit two years earlier. The weather was gorgeous, and there was blossom on the trees.

2. Cheer Song celebrates the Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team and the game against the Giants on a beautiful evening at Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium.

3. Paper Cranes recounts a harrowing visit to the Peace Memorial Museum and concludes with the experience of meeting a survivor on the second trip.

4. Hotel Sunroute builds on the vivid memory of stepping into the heat of the final morning and the desire to stay, soundtracked with a hazy collage of facts, thoughts and sounds.

Complete liner notes, location metadata and translations included with both cassette and download, and online at sitenonsite.com

Site Nonsite is a project researching and documenting a connection to place. Site is the source, a place rich with scattered information and experiences; Nonsite is the resulting document, a multimedia abstraction of that place. (These guiding thoughts are adapted from land artist Robert Smithson’s 1968 Theory of Non-Sites.)

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released May 6, 2022

Written, produced & mixed by Simon Collison.
Mastered by Simon Mills (One Half of Bent).
Translation by Geri Coady and Saki Watanabe.
Artwork & photography by Simon Collison & Geri Coady.

Additional spoken word by Saki Watanabe and Geri Coady. Field recordings were collected during Spring trips to Hiroshima in 2016 and 2018.

Catalogue no. OTSN-01, published by Obvious Things.

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