Osaka EP, by Site Nonsite

Osaka EP

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The third of four special edition cassettes. Includes mini fold-out locations map, track-by-track notes and translations, diary entries, holographic sticker and replica Grand Sumo program.

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1.	A Different Kind of Light 05:40	buy track
2.	Sauce! 04:57	buy track
3.	Grand Sumo 04:47	buy track
4.	Of Fields and Forests 05:27	buy track

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"One of my favourite tape series in recent years... a wonderful multimedia project.”—Lippy Kid, Electronic Odyssey

The third EP in the Japan series celebrates Osaka’s unique culture and effervescent personality and remembers a rural retreat in neighbouring Hyōgo.

1. A Different Kind of Light is a theme for a city so big that its edges are blurred, with a downtown that fizzes with sci-fi intensity. The track bathes in the neon that illuminates with an effervescence reflecting the cultural uniqueness of Osakans.

2. Sauce! highlights the Osakan sense of humour and love of unfussy sauce-soaked dishes like okonomiyaki and takoyaki. Osakans shed a tear for their wallets when they say, “eat yourself to ruin”.

3. Grand Sumo captures day twelve of the Spring tournament and our chance to see our favourites up close. The track features elderly superfans welcoming top-division rikishi into the building, the ring-entering ceremony, thrilling bouts and cheering crowds.

4. Of Fields and Forests is a song about how memories feel and find their place in time. It recounts travelling to neighbouring Hyōgo prefecture to stay with the family of our friend, Yūsuke, for two days of rural peace that filled us with optimism. The track closes with Yūsuke describing his family home and setting.

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 April 7, 2023

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

Additional spoken word by Yūsuke Samida. Field recordings were collected during Spring trips to Osaka in 2016 and 2018.

Catalogue no. OTSN-03, published by Obvious Things.

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“Eerily beautiful experimental compositions” (Electronic Sound) / Live shows this May-July / The Japan Series and Remixed albums out now

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Fat Lil's

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discography

Remixed

Feb 2024
The Japan Series

Feb 2024
Tokyo EP

Oct 2023
Osaka EP

Apr 2023
Kyoto EP

Nov 2022
Hiroshima EP

May 2022

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