Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka - 'Magnificent Little Dudes vol. 2' Vinyl LP
Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka - 'Magnificent Little Dudes vol. 2' Vinyl LP

Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka - 'Magnificent Little Dudes vol. 2' Vinyl LP

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Magnificent Little Dudes vol. 2 - Chihei Hatakeyama & Shun Ishiwaka

2 x 140gm with OBI Strip

Release Date: Friday 25th April 2025

From his first full-length album ‘Minima Moralia’ (“Excellent” 8.1 Pitchfork) in 2006, through the subsequent 70+ albums that followed, Chihei Hatakeyama has created a mighty canon of work.  

Having collaborated with the likes of Ai Kuwabara, Hiroki Chiba, Kei Matsumaru, Gen Hoshino, Terumasa Hino, Tony Allen, and countless others, Shun Ishiwaka is one of Japan’s most prolific modern jazz drummers. 

Between them they’ve played across ambient, experimental, electronic, pop, hip-hop, jazz, and metal projects, and that’s what this new release represents – a meeting of like-minded musicians with innumerable reference points coming together at an epoch-making juncture to produce an ambient work brimming with creativity and understanding.
They met while appearing live on radio. This extended to a series of gigs. The chemistry was instantaneous and recording sessions for this 2 volume epic followed, in March 2023. 

Chihei’s specific references for guitar treatments on this album include My Bloody Valentine, Les Rallizes Dénudés and Keiji Haino. 

Both musicians drew on their love of Free Jazz and Spiritual Jazz, and in particular the works of Alice Coltrane and later period Sun Ra.

Psycho-acoustic considerations, chance, spontaneity and the cross-section at which musicians respond (or not) to each other, in the heat of the moment, were all inspirations for this remarkable project, which is being released in 2 separate volumes across 2024.

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Tracklisting: 

Side A

M3 (feat. Cecilia Bignall)

M1_Space Age Mix

Side B

M2

M4 (Future Days Mix)

Side C

M5

Side D

M6

M3 (Unreliable Angel Mix)

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Credits

Chihei Hatakeyama: electric guitar and sound effects

Shun Ishiwaka: drums and percussion, piano on ‘M6’

Cecilia Bignall: Cello on ‘M3’

Hatis Noit: voice on ‘M4_Future Days Mix’

Composed by Chihei Hatakeyama and Shun Ishiwaka

‘M3’ composed by Chihei Hatakeyama, Shun Ishiwaka and Cecilia Bignall

‘M4_Future Days Mix' Composed by Chihei Hatakeyama, Shun Ishiwaka and Hatis Noit

Produced by Darrel Sheinman

Recorded at Aobadai Studio

Engineered by Masato Hara

‘M3’, ‘M2’, ‘M5’ mixed by Caspar Sutton-Jones

‘M6’, ‘M1_Space Age Mix’, ‘M4_Future Days Mix’, ‘M3_Unreliable Angel Mix’ mixed by Chihei Hatakeyama

Mastered by Caspar Sutton-Jones

Graphic Design by Alan Foulkes

& © Gearbox Records, 2025

 

 

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