Chihei Hatakeyama

Chihei Hatakeyama is a Tokyo-based ambient musician and understanding engineer who creates chiming, shimmering soundscapes with acoustic equipment (including electric guitar, vibraphone, and piano) and notebook processing. His functions often evoke moments from character, and appropriately consist of an abundant quantity of field recordings and various other organic sounds. Because the discharge of his well-received debut record Minima Moralia (Kranky) in 2006, he continues to be extremely prolific as both a single musician and collaborator, and his function has always preserved a consistently top quality. Hatakeyama originally started making music within several hardcore and steel rings, and his passions steadily drifted toward experimental rock and roll and traditional music. He produced a duo known as Opitope in 2002 with Tomoyoshi Time. Kranky released Hatakeyama’s single debut in 2006, and Opitope released their initial full-length, Hau, on Spekk the next calendar year. Hatakeyama’s second single album, Dedication, made an appearance on Magic Reserve Information in 2008. From 2009 on, his discharge timetable was restless, with albums on Hibernate (The River), Area40 (Saunter, Reflection), Home Regular (AN EXTENDED Trip), and many other ambient/experimental brands. This year 2010, he started launching music digitally through his Light Paddy Hill label; steadily, the label started issuing CDs by various other artists (such as for example Celer, Machinefabriek, and Aaron Martin), that have been mixed and learned by Hatakeyama himself. He continuing release a albums on various other brands, including Rural Colors, Little Fragments, and Aircraft Label, furthermore to collaborations with performers like Asuna, Hakobune, and Federico Durand. Hatakeyama released six albums in 2015 by itself, including Frozen Silence (a cooperation with Sakana Hosomi), Mist, Five Dreams, and his third record for Lawrence English’s Area40 label, Moon Light Reflecting Over Mountains.