Credits:

Nobukazu Takemura

Description:

Artist and composer Nobukazu Takemura, known for his many collaborations with Tortoise, Yo La Tengo, Steve Reich, and others, has released his first new album “Meaningful Tama” (Japanese title for Japanese release) in 11 and a half years since his original album “Zeitraum” (2014) on Thrill Jockey Records, a prestigious indie label in Chicago, USA. The album is his first new album in 11 and a half years since 2014’s “Zeitraum” (Japanese title for the Japanese release. The original title is “knot of meanings”) (THRILL-JP 62 / HEADZ 271).(This is the first release from Thrill Jockey in 22 years.)The album contains 18 tracks (19 tracks in total with one additional bonus track on the Japanese edition), gems recorded between 2016 and 2024.The songs on this album were not newly written for the album, but were carefully selected by Takemura himself from the vast amount of songs he had recorded in