This April, Kankyō Records will release Carpet & Sound Rec Vol.3, a live recording captured at House of zutto, a renovated traditional home in Imizu, Toyama. The event was organized by Oshima_Pros, a company specializing in imported carpets, and features a performance by Tokyo-based musician Okada Takuro. The album presents two extended improvisations, each unfolding over roughly thirty minutes.
Launched in 2024, the Carpet & Sound series is a collaborative project between Oshima_Pros and Kankyō Records that pairs carpets and music in intimate listening settings. For this recording, House of zutto was transformed with Oshima_Pros’ carpets spread across the floor, while soft light filtered in through the high atrium ceiling, creating a calm and resonant atmosphere.
The piece on Side A drifts like a sketch in sound: organic guitar tones surface and fade like breath, underpinned by a quiet drone that anchors the room. Bells and small percussive textures emerge from the background, adding depth to a performance that moves between silence and tension. The guitar flows like water, gradually dissolving into both body and space, until subtle sounds rise from the quiet like bubbles, weaving a richly textured sonic tapestry.
Side B opens into a dreamlike mirage, its resonant tones evoking the stillness of an exotic night before shifting into raw, cave-like experimental timbres. The music traces a fine line of transformation—layers of improvisation overlap and evolve, moving from subterranean stillness, as if awaiting germination, toward vivid, intimate sounds that recall the blossoming of spring.
Merging improvisation with an organic sense of circulation, Carpet & Sound Rec Vol.3 is both mystical and intimate—a rare document of space and performance woven together in sound.[GRRRDEN]
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released September 30, 2025
Produced by Oshima_Pros & Kankyō Production
Recorded by Nekomachi
Mixed by Takuro Okada
Mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama
Cover Design by Yudai Osawa
Manufactured by Kankyō Records
