Kiyoshi Mizutani - Scenery Of The Border: Environment & Folklore Of The Tanzawa Mountains [2005]
Here's one I actually own. It's a 2xCD I picked up last year at No Fun Fest in Brooklyn. I'd never heard of Mizutani, but I love field recording stuff like Toshiya Tsunoda and this one Charlemagne Palestine disc I heard a couple of years ago that he constructed out of ambient noise from some ethnic parade in lower Manhattan or something. I really want to buy that one but I can't remember the title. Anyway, I love hearing new stuff in this genre and this collection is pretty impressive. It's put together well and it has a lot of different tracks from the various specific locales he took the source material from, all of which fall within this Tanzawa Mountain region in Japan. I like that the tracks are shorter and don't resort to long and overdone ambience that's barely connected to the original sounds like a bird chirping or a river flowing, but rather he takes the sounds of each area and really lets them do the 'talking'.
I don't think he even added anything to these tracks, unlike most other field recording artists I've heard. I like that. It's a very calming work and I applaud his efforts. Well worth the $8. I dare say I'd love to do something like this myself one day, if for nothing else than my own enrichment or personal gratification. Hopefully in Japan, too.
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