Oscilation Circuit – Série Réflexion 1

A timeless masterpiece in the history of Japanese ambient/minimal music is reissued as a 2LP+12inch including previously unreleased material.

Sound Process Design, a company founded by Satoshi Ashikawa, a pioneer of environmental music in Japan, distributed this work in 1984. This is the elusive fourth release on the Sound Process label and the lone entry in the Sound Process Serie Reflexion newly remastered by Kuniyuki Takahashi.

A mysterious entry in the canon of Japanese minimalism, Série Réflexion 1 was the debut and swan song of Oscilation Circuit, a short-lived ensemble helmed by composer Kenichiro Isoda. 

Where composers like Ashikawa and Hiroshi Yoshimura took ques from Satie, Eno, and Budd, Oscillation Circuit’s interests lay in the minimalism of Riley, Young, Reich, and Glass, while also echoing the most impressionistic and nocturnal ECM jazz.

With its hypnotic swirl of delicate electric piano and concentric sax, Série Réflexion 1 embodies the kind of peaceful, melancholic bliss perfectly suited to cold days and winter doldrums.

"Kenichiro Isoda and Hiroshi Hirohashi approached minimalism in the more canonical sense, evaporating New York rigidity into a gaseous state suitable to “drift like smoke” within the environmental space Satoshi Ashikawa had envisioned. Imagine not the grid of the city, but the clouds between." (Spencer Doran - Visible Cloaks)

2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Remastered

Tracklist:
A1 Homme 16:53
A2 Nocturne 6:36
B Circling Air 21:34
C1 Nocturne - New Recording
C2 Nocturne II - Take2
D1 Nocturne II - Take1
D2 夜曲 Yakyoku