{"product_id":"go-hirano-the-habit-lp","title":"GO HIRANO - The Habit LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than three decades, Go Hirano has developed a quietly enthralling sound world on the peripheries of the Japanese underground. Emerging in the 1990s, Hirano released three albums with the revered PSF Records label and established himself as an artist with a unique sense of melody and atmosphere that was both entrancing and intimate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis work, largely recorded at home and in the field, de-emphasized technical perfection in favor of an unvarnished immediacy that imbued the quiet moments of daily life with a dreamlike splendor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn The Habit, Hirano brings together recordings that span decades of his playing the piano and other instruments on a daily basis. The core of the album was recorded in 2020, while other pieces draw from recordings dating as far back as the late 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough this span of years, a coherent vision emerges, marked by patient, subtle engagement with repetition, space, and resonance. Hirano works with a restrained palette—piano, pianica, wind chime, percussion, and synthesizer—to develop simple melodic figures that gradually shift in harmony and texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSpacious piano chords expand through soft synthesizer tones. Near-imperceptible rhythmic frameworks intertwine with tranquil phrases that drift and merge with the sounds of the world around them. This synthesis of music and the environment in which it is created is critical to Hirano's approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than isolating the music from its surroundings, he embraces the atmosphere of the moment, the room in which each piece is played, capturing the subtle sounds and artifacts of the artist's daily experience and the surrounding natural world. For Hirano, these \"imperfections\" are pathways to vibrant, living expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile he may share affinities with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and even Brian Eno, Hirano's dedication to \"initial, unadorned expression\" and processing the environment through his own particular filter sets him apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/njParY228KU?si=ncW2VkFSWnkB2LO8\" title=\"YouTube video player\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44236278759466,"sku":"GO HIRANO - The Habit LP","price":64.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1273\/6111\/files\/gohirano-thehabit.jpg?v=1775382587","url":"https:\/\/www.strangeworldrecords.com.au\/products\/go-hirano-the-habit-lp","provider":"Strangeworld Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}