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| | Cyclic Defrost - Issue #009 (November 2004) - Takashi Wada - Meguro (Onitor) |
 | | In spite of his incredible legacy, there was one project Alfred Hitchcock dreamed of doing but which remained unfulfilled: a film that would encompass “twenty-four-hours in the life of a city,” as he described it in his infamous conversations with François Truffaut. |
 | | His solo debut, the stylistically rich Meguro, begins at 3 am and ends at sunset, with the intervening hours spent taking in a city’s architecture, light reflections, fluctuating weather conditions, and landscapes. |
 | | There’s an innocent, even slightly naïve, quality that aligns the recording with the music of Nobukazu Takemura in its child-like qualities (for instance, the Gameboy-like tones that appear in the beginning of “Night View”); in addition, both artists are multi-talented instrumentalists and work with admirable ease in a multitude of styles. |
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