Mickey Guitar Project
In 70 stages, in one long track, Ken Matsutani plays “hardly melodically played” reverbed vibrations of the guitar, with birds like sounds sipping through as an accompanying background, like an area of a sea of sounds in a room, which feels vibrant and completely stagnant at the same time. The composition hardly moves over the tracks, while the overtones of the echoes tend to move forward, from water to air, like dripping circles of sound on a flat waterline. The echoes swell and become a hypnotic excursion. The loops of circles become round..but also circle around a little too often. They are too slowly changing to convince that it is a real, alive and well, spontaneous energy, considering its duration. In the end, such lack of additional ideas during the evolution, confirms the stage of stagnation. It demands an overdose of patience from me, something which I more or less gave up showing after the 24th section.
