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KYO SHU

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KYO SHU is a five-song musical reverie of Gorfain’s years spent in Japan, first as a college student, then as a Tokyo studio musician, through improvised studio performances made with amplified acoustic violins, guitar pedals, piano and synthesizers. Gorfain performed, recorded and mixed the album himself.

“The project began as purely musical exploration but transformed into soundtracking memories,” explains Gorfain. “’Kyo Shu,’ like so many words and concepts in Japanese, is a word of duality. It means ‘reminiscence’, but reminiscence with an undercurrent of ‘nostalgia.’” The soundscapes have a mesmerizing energy, like that of a walk after midnight on the sand dunes of the Japan Sea coast (“Mayonaka Sakkyu”), or the wonderment of standing under a full moon in autumn (“Mangetsu”).

“Yuki no Rotemburo” conjures up soaking in the warm waters of an open-air onsen, chilled by snow falling on winter trees in the dark. On “Saishu Densha,” the plucking of the violin flickers like Tokyo’s neon lights, viewed from a train where you are its only passenger. “Kon Ran” has been set to a hypnotic video Gorfain filmed during a sleepless, jet-lagged cab ride.

KYO SHU’s album cover uses one of Gorfain's own photographs, with Japanese and English calligraphy by Ryotaro Kato, a friend and master ceramicist from the famous Koubei-gama ceramics family dynasty.

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released July 17, 2020

All sounds made, recorded and mixed by tone-cluster (aka Eric Gorfain)

All songs published by Quietstreet (ASCAP)

Mastered by Marc Urselli

© Littlebox Recordings, 2020

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tone-cluster Los Angeles, California

tone-cluster is the experimental music project from violinist/arranger Eric Gorfain, the founder of The Section Quartet, one of the busiest studio string quartets for rock & pop artists, film & TV scores, also known for their string quartet interpretations of Radiohead’s "OK Computer" & "The Bends." Eric has worked with Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Nick Cave, Beyonce, & Fiona Apple to name a few. ... more

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