where is home : third shore

by Tomo Nakayama

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Ｋ this is amazing, very soothing to listen to
not what I expected from TN (I didn't read the description first) but really glad I bought it Favorite track: fire exit (mythical creatures).

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1.	lobby (where is home) 04:08	buy track
2.	basement (origin story) 06:25	buy track
3.	third floor landing (the building) 10:06	buy track
4.	vault (liminal space) 06:00	buy track
5.	fire exit (mythical creatures) 08:36	buy track
6.	terrace (i. walking) 05:24	buy track
7.	terrace (ii. gestures) 03:20	buy track
8.	terrace (iii. the architecture) 03:54	buy track
9.	terrace (iv. waves) 02:13	buy track
10.	terrace (v. third shore) 04:51	buy track

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This instrumental album was composed and recorded for experimental dance and performance ensemble Malacarne's site-responsive piece, "where is home : third shore". In it, four immigrant solo dancers guide the audience through Seattle’s Inscape building. Each tour aims to integrate the performers’ embodied immigration experiences with the Inscape building’s history as an Immigration and Naturalization Center. Now serving as the largest arts and culture enclave in Seattle with workspace for artists and artisans of all disciplines, Inscape pays respect to the history of the former INS Building and the people who made that history, the incredible structure and its bipolar spirit, the triumphs of those who became citizens and the tribulations of those who did not, the joys and the sorrows that manifested the unique nature of the edifice.

Many of the sounds you hear in "where is home : third shore" were built on field recordings collected within the Inscape building and outside in its surrounding downtown neighborhoods of the International District, SoDo, Rainier Beach, West Seattle, and the Duwamish Riverway. Natural ambient sounds such as waves, birds, whistling, traffic noises and wind interact with synthesizers and percussion instruments built from samples of handrails, pipes, radiators, vaults, concrete walls and stairs, metal fences, and doors both opening and closing. Melodies were formed from half-remembered fragments of Japanese folk songs and movie and television themes from my youth, memories around the time of my own immigration to the United States.

The immigrant artist team was led by Alice Gosti (Italy), and included composer Tomo Nakayama (Japan), lighting designer Chih-Hung Shao (Taiwan), costume designer Ophir El-Boher (Israel) and performers Marceline Nyakirindo (Munyamulenge/Democratic Republic of Congo), Sofiya Kostareva (Ukraine & Russia), Margaret Luxamon Hotchkiss (Thailand), and Prasti Purdum (Indonesia).

Cover Photography by Allina Yang / www.allinayang.com
More info at www.malacarne.co

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released October 6, 2023

Composed, performed, and produced by Tomo Nakayama. Copyright 2023, Ricebelly Music, BMI.

Dedicated to Ryuichi Sakamoto

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"When music journalists say things like 'this artist is a fixture in Seattle music,' there’s probably no one right now who fits that title better than Nakayama." - KEXP

Born in Japan and raised in Seattle, Washington, Tomo Nakayama is an artist whose melodic, complex and emotionally compelling music has been praised by NPR, New York Times, and KEXP. ... more

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Kings Hall at Apex Art and Culture Center

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Town Hall Seattle

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