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D​ō​ch​ū​ki: Recordings from a Soggy Sleeping Bag

by Mola

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Thunder Upon the Bridge 01:19
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Nightside of Sengaku-ji 01:13
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Nakamise-dori, Kawasaki Daishi 01:35
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Busy and Uneasy 00:42
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Heart Synchronicity 01:02
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Tokaido misc. 1 00:25
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Appealing Song 01:10
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Garden at Hiratsuka's Sogo Koen 00:29
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A Clumsy Prayer for a Safe Journey 01:06
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Between Two Tokaidos 01:20
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Sukumogawa 01:18
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Suntory Boss is the Boss of them All 00:41
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Along the Coast at Numazu 00:48
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Waiting Out the Rain 00:30
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Waves at Yoshiwara 00:57
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Tago no Ura 00:53
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Tokaido misc. 2 00:17
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Fresh Rain at Seiken-ji 00:43
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Days Take Flight 00:58
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Bus Stop 00:56
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Tororo 00:35
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Gero Gero 01:10
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Back on Concrete 00:43
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Welcome to my Garden 01:13
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Passing Oigawa Steam Locomotive 01:22
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Wind Through Bamboo 00:20
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Kakegawa, Early Morning 00:41
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Down by a Shallow Stream 01:18
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Scaffolding Cover 00:24
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Murmuring Pines 00:37
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White Waves and Travels Home 00:48
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Hamanako weird 00:19
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One Last Seaside Recording 00:36
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As if they weren't loud enough 00:35
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Every Dog Barks at Me 00:09
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Sakura 01:28
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Dancing Down a Ravine, Laughing at Route 1 00:45
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Factory 00:26
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Balloons 00:55
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Swimming Upstream 00:37
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Starlit Promontory 00:39
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Like Chikusai 01:21
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Grass Pillow; Passing Rain - No Dogs, Though 01:24
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Shelter for the Night 01:22
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Drowned Out 00:46
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Discarded Toy Drum 00:20
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Dawn on Kameyama 01:27
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Kodama? 02:50
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Across a River, Two Deer 01:25
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Small Roadside Shrine 00:37
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Obligatory Suikinkutsu Recording (for Saif) 00:54
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Five O'Clock 01:01
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That Valley Stream that Flows Between the Trees 00:58
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Mii-dera 02:49
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Sanjo Ohashi - No Ceremony 01:12
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about

Dōchūki is a collection of field recordings made along a historic road in Japan known as the Old Tōkaidō Highway. There are 55 recordings total – one for each of the 53 post stations as well as the start and end point respectively.
The album makes frequent references to literature from throughout Japan’s history – primarily diaries and poetry – from before the Heian period to the late Meiji era (click on the individual tracks for more contextual information). These referential recordings allow the listener to hear how the soundscape along this historic road has changed over the centuries, as well as compare their own emotional response to that of the writer. Furthermore, by informing my approach through Japanese literature, I hoped to adopt a more ‘native’ perspective of the Japanese soundscape which helped to avoid the ethical dilemma of representing a history through that which is deemed ‘exotic’ by an outsider – a distinction that defines a culture primarily by its relative ‘other-ness’.

credits

released May 24, 2015

Recorded March and April 2015 by Chase Lynn.
Additional graphic design by Andrew Tuersley.

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