Daisuke Suzuki - DDD

This is, as far as I'm aware, the only solo recording by Daisuke Suzuki, who you might know as a member of Ghosts on Water (with Andrew Chalk) or Lost Shadow (with David Jackman & Michael Prime), or for his recordings with Darren Tate. Daisuke also runs the excellent Siren Records label in Tokyo, which has released music by like-minded artists such as Jonathan Coleclough, Robert Haigh, and The New Blockaders, sometimes in cooperation with Robot Records and Chalk's Faraway Press. This gives you an idea of the world Daisuke lives in, which makes his only solo album a strange thing indeed. "DDD" includes two seemingly unaltered field records of ducks (on one side) and crickets (on the other). The album was recorded in 1996 and 1997, then released by IDEA as an LP in a run of 300 copies in 2001. It's difficult to hear the connection between this documentary-style presentation and the weighty, sober drones made by the artists' associates, but then maybe it ought to be listened to as simply what it is, without bias.

Daisuke Suzuki - DDD