Jodo

The first collaboration album of Stijn Hüwels and Chihei Hatakeyama has been completed.
Stijn Hüwels is runing Slaapwel label in Belgian, which releases high quality ambient works.
also, he is mucian forcusing minimalism by long-form pieces, using processed guitar and field recordings.

This album was recorded in during twice in 2018 European tours of chihei hatakeyama.
chihei hatakeyama has used for this recodings a small Arturia analog synthesizer and an electric guitar.

Jodo means Buddhist paradise in Jaonese.
In Buddhism, there is the world after death called "the Land of Happiness".

A whisper-like, fine-grained analog synth sounds like an empty can thrown away on a longing road

The tone of the analog synth with an indefinite pitch overlaps with the melodic tone of the electric guitar and fades away as it is sucked into a huge gravity or black hole.

The reverbs and delays of strymon and eventide invite guitar drone into the poetics of sorrow that is sucked into a huge mist, and it becomes a reverberation of rage.