TRACKLIST

CREDITS

Music : KiMiMi
Publishing : conatala, Calax Records
Art direction : Yoshiaki Miura
Layout | Editing : Yusei Yamamoto
Photo: Kazura Sunamori (collage side), KiMiMi (liner notes side)
Poetry reading : Miki Mano (track 5)
Mastering : Makoto Oshiro
Thanks : Keisuke Oka, Nao Kimura, Arimasuton Builders, Ai Ohno, Tamaru, Ko Ogura, Miami

音楽家・大野慎矢によるソロ・プロジェクト KiMiMi が、東京・三田に位置する建築家・岡啓輔による20年のセルフビルド建築「蟻鱒鳶ル」に宿る時間の層と人々の気配を音として掬い上げ、音楽として再構築した作品『ИМА（イマ）』。

ブルガリアで学んだガイダ（バグパイプの祖先楽器）を軸に、多彩な楽器を自在に操るマルチ奏者のKiMiMiは、これまで旅先で録りためた生活の痕跡や民俗的な旋律を宅録というスケールに持ち帰り、カセットテープ作品や舞台音楽などを通して幻想的なフォークロア音響を紡いできました。

その音楽活動の傍ら、「蟻鱒鳶ル」の建築作業にも参加し、現場で響くハンマーや鉄骨の音、昼休みの雑談、誰かが奏でた楽器の旋律、通りを走る車の音などを記録してきました。

2022年末からは、この建築を題材にしたZINE『月刊 蟻鱒鳶ル売り鱒』が始動。KiMiMiは毎号寄せる音楽作品にこれらの録音を取り入れ、ガイダをはじめ、アコーディオン、ギター、笛、ウクレレ、ピアノ、足踏みオルガン、鍵盤ハーモニカ、シロフォンなどの生楽器、そしてシンセサイザーの音を重ね合わせながら、現場の湿度や呼吸が刻まれたサウンドスケープを形にしています。

KiMiMiの創作は、計画的な構築よりも、偶然や直感、そして時間の流れに委ねる姿勢に貫かれています。断片的な録音を重ね、時間を置き、再び掘り起こす。その繰り返しの中で、音楽が自然と形を成していきます。それはまさに、あらかじめ図面を用意せず即興的に層を重ねあわせ、つくりあげられていった蟻鱒鳶ルのプロセスと共鳴します。

『ИМА（イマ）』は、KiMiMiの音の旅の現在地であり、建築と音楽、記録と創作、個と共同体の境界を軽やかに越えていく試みです。都市の喧騒、手作業の静けさ、笑い声、蟻鱒鳶ルの現場に響くあらゆる音たちが、KiMiMiの音楽と溶け合い、人が生きる時間そのものを映し出しています。

• KiMiMiによる楽曲ごとの解説を収録したポスターサイズのライナーノーツを封入。
• 3/26よりBandcampにてデジタルアルバム販売開始。（3曲先行発売中）
• LPは6月発売予定。後日受注開始いたします。

‘ИМА (Ima)’ is a work by KiMiMi, the solo project of a musician Shin-ya Ohno, which captures the layers of time and the presence of people inhabiting ‘Arimasuton Building’―a self-built structure created over 20 years by architect Keisuke Oka, located in Mita, Tokyo, and reconstructs them into music.

A multi-instrumentalist who masterfully handles a diverse range of instruments, with the gaida (an ancestor of the bagpipes) – which he studied in Bulgaria – at the core of his sound, KiMiMi has previously brought traces of daily life and folk melodies recorded during his travels back to the scale of home recording, weaving fantastical folk soundscapes through cassette tape works and stage music.

Alongside his musical activities, he has participated in the construction work for ‘Arimasuton Building’, recording the sounds of hammers and steel beams echoing on site, lunchtime chatter, the melodies of instruments played by others, and the sound of cars passing by. From the end of 2022, a zine titled ‘Monthly Arimasuton Building Urimasu’, based on this construction project, was launched. KiMiMi incorporates these recordings into the musical works he contributes to each issue, layering sounds from live instruments―including the gaida, accordion, guitar, flute, ukulele, piano, foot-pump organ, melodica and xylophone―alongside a few synthesiser tones, to shape a soundscape imbued with the humidity and breath of the site.

KiMiMi’s creative process is characterised not by planned construction, but by an attitude of entrusting the work to chance, intuition and the passage of time. Fragmented recordings are layered, set aside for a time, and then unearthed again. Through this repetition, the music naturally takes shape. This resonates perfectly with the process of ‘Arimasuton Building’, which was built up improvisationally, layer by layer, without any pre-prepared blueprints.

‘ИМА (Ima)’ marks the current stage of KiMiMi’s sonic journey and represents an attempt to gracefully transcend the boundaries between architecture and music, documentation and creation, and the individual and the community. The clamour of the city, the tranquillity of manual labour, laughter, and every sound resonating at the Arimasuton Building site blend with KiMiMi’s music, reflecting the very passage of time in which people live.

• Includes poster-sized liner notes with track-by-track commentary by KiMiMi.
• Digital album available on Bandcamp from March 26 (3 tracks available now.)
• The LP is scheduled for release around June. Pre-orders will open soon.