— The artist edition double LP includes a 13” x 35.5” traditional tenugui Japanese towel featuring a design used for wrapping paper in Tashi’s grandmother's confectionery shop in Kyoto. Tashi’s grandmother opened the shop in their family home to help make ends meet after her husband, Tashi’s grandfather, died in the war, shortly after his father, Yoshi Wada, was born. The tenugui towel will be available to one hundred customers online, and at select live dates.
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You get 2 tracks now
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and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
— Pressed on audiophile black vinyl by RTI, packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket printed by Dorado Music Packaging
Includes digital pre-order of What Is Not Strange?.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
— Japanese import CD w/ Obi officially licensed and pressed in Japan by Plancha
Includes digital pre-order of What Is Not Strange?.
You get 2 tracks now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
Purchasable with gift card
$16USDor more
Streaming + Download
Pre-order of What Is Not Strange?. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
What Is Not Strange? is the first full-length solo album by Los Angeles-based composer Tashi Wada, comprising his most far-reaching and impassioned music to date. Written and recorded over a period that encompassed the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, the album sees Wada reflecting inward to explore broad narratives—being alive, mortality, finding one’s place in the world—through new modes of ecstatic, song-based expression. While the denser forms, stark contrasts, and overt surreality may carry a different weight than Wada’s earlier work, which elicited perceptual effects with minimal means, the heart of What Is Not Strange? is still in experimentation and unforeseen outcomes.
credits
releases June 7, 2024
All music written by Tashi Wada
The melody from “Calling” is based on a traditional Swedish herding call, or kulning, as sung by Elin Lisslass.
Produced by Tashi Wada
Recorded by Chris Cohen
Additional recording by Tashi Wada, Julia Holter, and Ezra Buchla
Recorded in 2022-2023 at Tropico Beauty, Glendale, CA; Chris’ studio, Altadena, CA; UCI Percussion Studio, Irvine, CA; and the homes of the musicians in Los Angeles and Berkeley, CA
Mixed and mastered by Stephan Mathieu at Schwebung, Bonn, DE
Additional mixing by Tashi Wada
Vinyl cut by Dave Polster at Well Made Music, Bristol, VA
Photography by Dicky Bahto
Color correction by Julie Sadowski
Design by Will Work for Good
All music published by Saltern (ASCAP)
Julia Holter appears courtesy of Domino Recording Co. Ltd.
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Of the pieces available via Bandcamp, this one has a formality and almost ceremonial restraint in it's feel/approach that I find hard to explain. It is in a good way, and it commands respect. Mr. Paul
supported by 14 fans who also own “What Is Not Strange?”
Absolutely love this recording. I listen to it at work. I listen to it in the car on the way home from work. I listen to it while falling asleep. Curtis’ cello is so amazing. Just got the vinyl in the mail from Discogs the other day! Can’t wait to play on my hi-fi system! Dave Sewall
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