MARI SEKINE - Beginning LP T-Shirts and heavily layered vocal tracks

and heavily layered vocal tracks filtered through an array of effects

an anthem of fantasy

his third album – and the first under his full given name - arrives after a prolonged break

recorded traces of this installation rendered as musical notation produce a series of events—concerts that explore the outcomes of the acts of amplifying

MARI SEKINE - Beginning LP T-Shirts and heavily layered vocal tracksBeginning is, appropriately enough, the world wide solo debut by Japanese percussionist Mari Sekine. She has been active since 2000 with numerous groups and artists, as well as providing music for the theatre. This latter experience is particularly in evidence throughout this piece, with its dramatic shifts and changing scenery, forming a very visual and evocative music with over fifteen percussion instruments entering and leaving the stage in their