minato, by Leo Okagawa

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Glass mastered CD. Packaged in black mass-tinted cardboard digisleeve with frame. It holds a set of 2 double-sided art cards with a different artwork from the regular edition on 350gr satin paper + a set of 3 square photos on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Paper Supreme, one of which numbered & displaying part of some exclusive artworks Leo created for this release.
Inner sleeve features a strip of 150gr Khadi cotton rag paper inkjet printed with part of an old Yokohama harbour photo (all treated differently) mentioning edition number, artist’s name + title…

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"minato" is a soundscape work based on field recordings around Yokohama Port.
In 1630’s, Japan started the trade policy called "Sakoku (鎖国)" that cuts off diplomacy except for a few countries. The policy ended in 1853 and Japan opened 5 ports including Yokohama Port in 1859. Yokohama Port is now one of the biggest maritime terminals in Japan, and it has been working for the moving and the logistics between Japan and foreign
countries for a long time.
This time I focused on its functional aspect, and recorded sound materials. This work was created by mixing various sound materials of this area and a few simple electric tones.

As a side note, "minato (みなと, 港, 湊)" is a Japanese word and it means 'the port', 'the place the things are gathered', and so on.

(Leo Okagawa, October 2021)

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released January 31, 2022

LOCATIONS : Yokohama Port area, Kanagawa, Japan
(Yokohama Hammerhead, Honmoku Wharf, Osanbashi Terminal, Yamashita Park, and Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse)

Recorded and mixed in October - December, 2020.

Cover & card design + treatments by Daniel Crokaert.
Based exclusively on photos by Leo Okagawa.

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