What Is Not Strange?

by Tashi Wada

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— 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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— Pressed on audiophile black vinyl by RTI, packaged in a deluxe gatefold jacket printed by Dorado Music Packaging

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— Japanese import CD w/ Obi officially licensed and pressed in Japan by Plancha

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1.	What Is Not Strange?
2.	Grand Trine 06:10 video	buy track
3.	Revealed Night
4.	Asleep to the World
5.	Flame of Perfect Form
6.	Under the Earth
7.	Subaru
8.	Time of Birds
9.	Calling
10.	Plume
11.	This World's Beauty

about

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.

Ezra Buchla – viola, electric viola
Corey Fogel – drums, percussion
Devin Hoff – double bass
Julia Holter – vocals, additional keyboard
Tashi Wada – keyboards, sirens

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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2220 Arts + Archives

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