TAGS 'FOURCOLOR'

  • FOURCOLOR: JAPMAG (2006)

    INTERVIEWS

    "Der Mesiter De Minimalen."

  • SAWAKO: BLOW UP (2007)

    INTERVIEWS

    "5 years ago, I was making the sound for tens or hundreds of people who I know directly. Now, I am making the sound for several thousands of people who I know or don';t know directly"

  • FOURCOLOR

    ARTISTS

    "Keiichi Sugimoto is an artist and composer from Japan and plays in several sound projects such as FilFla, FourColor, Minamo and Fonica.His compositions have been released from record labels throughout the world such as 12K (US), apestaartje (US), Tom Lab (Germany), and HEADZ (Japan). As FourColor, his album Water Mirror was chosen…"

  • AIR CURTAIN

    RELEASES

    "Air Curtain is the latest release from Keiichi Sugimoto's (Minamo, Fonica) solo project Fourcolor. Following his release Water Mirror (Apestaartje, 2004) in which Sugimoto created gradually evolving works using guitar drones and resonances, Air Curtain was composed to be a more diverse album and an exploration of different processes. Utilizing…"

  • LETTER OF SOUNDS

    RELEASES

    "Following the release of his work as part of the electro-acoustic quartet Minamo on 12k (12k1031, 2005) and the proto-pop outing under his new moniker Filfla (Plop, 2005), Fourcolor (Keiichi Sugimoto) is back with his second release on 12k, Letter of Sounds. His previous work, Air Curtain (12k1029) was a…"

  • 12K1058-BLOW UP

    REVIEWS

    "Con il progetto Minamo, il quartetto giapponese formato da Keiichi Sugimoto, Yuichiro Iwashita, Namiko Sasamoto e Tetsuro Yasunaga ha attraversato praticamente per intero lo scorso decennio..."

  • FOURCOLOR EUROPEAN TOUR: JUNE 2010

    NEWS

    "Fourcolor will be playing 8 shows in the UK and France this June. read below for dates and locations."

  • DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS - FEATURING MUSIC BY FOURCOLOR

    NEWS

    "Fourcolor’s “Curves Of Air” is featured in one of the short films for Doctors Without Borders, an organization fighting malnutrition around the world. http://vimeo.com/13127465"

  • AS PLEAT

    RELEASES

    "Fourcolor is the solo project of Keiichi Sugimoto (Minamo, Filfla) and should be well known to the 12k audience with his two previous releases, Air Curtain (2004) and Letter of Sounds (2006) both highly regarded and now out of print, which established him as one of the label’s leading roster…"

  • FOURCOLOR “AS PLEAT” RELEASE PARTY TOKYO

    NEWS

    "There will be a release party in Tokyo for the upcoming FourColor As Pleat album in Tokyo on June 10th."

  • 12K1065-FLUID RADIO

    REVIEWS

    "Keiichi Sugimoto has created so much more than a beautiful piece of ambient work. As Pleat’s depth and dimensionality are very much mesmerising and unique"

  • NEW FOURCOLOR SOON - AND FIRST REVIEW

    NEWS

    "The new FourColor album, As Pleat, is officially released this coming Tuesday, May 3rd. We will be launching it, however, tomorrow (April 29th) in our online shop. To get you ready for the release, here’s the first review, courtesy of the UK’s Fluid Radio."

  • SPECIAL FOURCOLOR “AS PLEAT” WEBSITE

    NEWS

    "FourColor’s Keiichi Sugimoto has set up a special website for his new release on 12k, As Pleat. It contains album info, sound samples, tour dates, etc."

  • 12K1065-BOOMKAT

    REVIEWS

    "Occasionally bringing to mind Alva Noto if he’d thought about collaborating with Robin Guthrie instead of with Ryuichi Sakamoto."

  • 12K1065-TEXTURA

    REVIEWS

    "As Pleat exudes a clarity and precision of tone that proves entrancing in the textural richness of its multi-layered interplay."

  • FOURCOLOR RELEASE PARTY FRIDAY IN TOKYO

    NEWS

    "This Friday, June 10th, catch FourColor and Christopher Willits live in Tokyo at the release party for As Pleat. http://fc.frolicfon.com/#tour2"

  • 12K1065-BRAINWASHED

    REVIEWS

    "There's just something about the warmth and variety of the textures here that is undeniable, making it a memorable and inviting disc."

  • HEADPHONE COMMUTE: SOUND BYTES - 12K

    NEWS

    "Headphone Commute’s 1st of a 4 part series that looks at the latest releases from 12k."

  • 12K1065-HEADPHONE COMMUTE

    REVIEWS

    "It is indeed a very warm record, swaying in the air with gracious vibes, soft sonic fumes, and light, shimmering haze of harmonies and strummed chords."

  • 12K1065-THE LIMINAL

    REVIEWS

    "Sugimoto has created a perfect piece of escapism."