Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi

‘Multiple Musics’

LP – Metaphon 019 – 2024
Edition of 500 copies
Cover painting by Wayne Jacob
Mastering by Stephan Mathieu
Release date, september 21, 2024
Price: 24 euro

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MICHAEL RANTA / TAKEHISA KOSUGI

Previously unreleased live recording from the Ranta archives. The creative duo of Michael Ranta and Takehisa Kosugi performed many times in the 1970’s and 1980’s. In this outstanding performance, recorded at the Japanese Culture Institute in Cologne in 1987, the application of an advanced multi delay system, independently utilized by both players, plays a central role. The smartly treated cyclic tapestry of the delay system (modulated, transformed, harmonized) injects additional dimensions to the highly coordinated improvisation with voice, percussion, violin and electronics, creating interactive ‘composition-like’ textures being ‘Multiple Musics’.

Michael Ranta: Percussion, mechanical sound sculpture, voice, strings, effects
Takehisa Kosugi: Voice, violin, electronics, effects