Mitchell Akiyama Mort Aux Vaches
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“It’s been a while since I last heard the music of Mitchell Akiyama, the ‘If Night Is A Weed And A Day Grows Less’ (VItal Weekly 421), and that left with mixed feelings. It didn’t fulfil my expectations, certainly not after his work with Desormais. But as ever, Akiyama is on the road and he recorded his session for VPRO radio in April 2004 already, using guitar and laptop but apparently he doesn’t use any prepared samples, but entirely based on treatments of the guitar. Akiyama strums and plucks, and the signals are picked up by the computer and the outcome is a stretched out field of ambient glitch that occasionally works it way to distortion. Not unlike Keith Fullerton Whitman’s work in this direction, but more minimal and perhaps also less refined. It is surely nice music, but in this single, forty-three minute piece, I didn’t have the feeling I was hearing something new and left me with similar mixed feelings as before. Executed with care and control, but nothing earth shaking new in terms of progress in the realms of glitchy ambient meeting post-rock.” (FdW)
