{"product_id":"空間現代-kukangendai-baquet-wheel-lp","title":"空間現代 \/ Kukangendai - Baquet Wheel (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eUnfeasibly tight Tokyo trio Kukangendai transmute cues from Tuareg blues, motorik krautrock, and jazz, into fascinating abstractions oscillating between driving pointillism reminding of Oren Ambarchi \u0026 Konrad Sprenger works, to time-bending avant expressions akin to Derek Bailey, all with signature dexterity and discipline, spellbinding in their focussed nuance. RIYL Kakuhan, Carl Stone, Mark Fell...\n\"Since 2016 the band have set up shop in their studio and venue space, Soto, which houses an incredibly well tuned and powerful sound system that has become a well known destination for touring musicians. In March of 2025, Marionette was celebrating a belated 10 years of activity with label showcases across Japan in collaboration with Dotei Records, and Soto was inevitably one of the stops as many label alumni have set foot in the venue over the years. This is where I got to experience Kukangendai perform for the very first time and knew right then we were destined to work together.\n\nKukangendai embody an undeniable sense of timing and precision through collage-like repetition of minimalist phrases that manifest as a single unified rhythm. Their latest offering for Marionette, titled Baquet Wheel, is a purely acoustic endeavor, remarkably recorded live using Taku Unami's special binaural microphone. The trio seamlessly twist polyrhythms and melodies rooted in jazz, krautrock, blues, and Tuareg producing a timeless sound that preserves the primitive and memory evoking narratives buried deep within the music. Over the course of five tracks, the visceral nature of Kukangendai’s dynamic evolves from playful riffs that are seemingly familiar yet strikingly original, making it impossible to discern exactly when this material was conceived.\n\nKukangendai have maintained a prolific yet relatively low profile for the last two decades, with a handful of self-released editions on their own labels (Soto and Leftbrain) as well as a collaborative album with pioneering electronic music composer Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2018, then venturing outside Japan in 2019 to release their first widely distributed album on Ideologic Organ, a label curated by Sunn O)))’s Stephen O'Malley. Other collaborative projects to date include an album produced with rap group Moe and ghosts, live performances with Keiji Haino and with poet Gozo Yoshimasu, productions with the Chiten theater company, and most recently a remix album of their works featuring Carl Stone and Madteo.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 307px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1971258096\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u0026lt;a href=\u0026quot;https:\/\/kukangendai.bandcamp.com\/album\/baquet-wheel\u0026quot;\u0026gt;Baquet Wheel 空間現代 \/ Kukangendai\u0026lt;\/a\u0026gt;\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Marionette","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49994794959107,"sku":"Marionette032","price":5159.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a3545570887_10.jpg?v=1792888855","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/%e7%a9%ba%e9%96%93%e7%8f%be%e4%bb%a3-kukangendai-baquet-wheel-lp","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}