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Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/44-48]

Posted By: delpotro
Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/44-48]

Hakushi Hasegawa - Mahōgakkō (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1-48 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 34:28 minutes | 425 MB
Experimental Electronic, IDM, Breakcore, Art Pop | Label: Brainfeeder, Official Digital Download

Japanese musician Hakushi Hasegawa/長谷川白紙 proudly announces their new album Mahōgakkō/魔法学校 for LA-based Brainfeeder Records, out July 24th. As part of the announcement, Hasegawa shares a new single and video – “Boy’s Texture” – serving as the album’s second single after last year’s “Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi)”. The news arrives alongside Hasegawa’s grand gesture of revealing their face to fans for the very first time, unveiling a new side of the elusive and compelling artist.

“Boy’s Texture” sprints with all the energy of springtime. A warm, easygoing guitar forms the track’s main center, a through line as skittering synths, pounding drums, and a chorus of voices swirl around it. The video, directed by Gauspel (Brandon Saunders), explores the desire to find a missing piece of yourself in the wild. “Most people hold this preconceived notion that your being will be complete upon this revelation and that the broken pieces that comprise you will find their final puzzle piece,” he explains. “But there is no such grand revelation, just self-reflection… just you.”

Mahōgakkō, translating to “Magic School,” also seeks to make sense of a chaotic, vibrant world by letting itself get swept up in it. A balance of pop and pandemonium, the album is one of extremes, where chipmunk-pitched voices square off against percussion set to speed metal’s tempo and volume. Noise and melody, cutesy and aggressive, acoustic and electronic — all come to a head in a process Hasegawa calls the Explanatory Ratio.

“The balance is probably the only thing in my work that is intentional and very important to me,” shares Hasegawa. “In many of my songs, I use a scale that I personally call the ‘Explanatory Ratio’ to guide my work. This is not a sophisticated musical theory at all, but simply a subjective scale that looks at the balance of sounds that are explainable to me and sounds that are not explainable to me, and whether or not they are distributed in the ratio that I set for each piece.”

Mahōgakkō finds Hakushi pushing their boundaries to the absolute limit, with hyperspeed jungle and breakcore traded up for the even more pummeling onslaughts inspired by Tanzanian singeli so that they become just another texture in the wild sonic landscapes. And just when your senses are bordering on overloaded, Hakushi gifts you a moment of sweet reprieve before the roller coaster sets off again with hectic syncopations and harmonic jumps not for the faint of heart.

Impressively, the eye of this maelstrom revolves solely around Hasegawa, who taps only a few select collaborators to enliven their vision. Those who caught lead single “Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi)” will recall bassist Sam Wilkes added depth to the track juxtaposed against Hasegawa’s high-pitched singing. The lone featured vocalist rapper KID FRESINO lends his voice to “Gone,” where FRESINO’s determined flow seems to ground the skittering drums from spiraling out of control. NYC-based jazz composer Miho Hazama likewise lends her own form of control to “KYŌFUNOHOSHI”, guiding horns and saxes brought in by Yohchi Masago, Ryo Konishi, and Tomoaki Baba (J-Squad).

With Mahōgakkō there is no doubt that this is the sound of a once-in-a-generation artist not just breaking boundaries for Japanese music but global music culture and it will leave you with no doubt that Hakushi Hasegawa is only really just getting started.

Tracklist:
01 - Departed
02 - Gone
03 - Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi)
04 - Repeal (Tekkai)
05 - The Blossom and the Thunder
06 - KYŌFUNOHOSHI
07 - NENNEKOKOROMI
08 - Forbidden Thing (Kimmotsu)
09 - Mahōinter (v2)
10 - Boy’s Texture
11 - Enbami
12 - Outside (Soto)

foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2024-08-18 16:29:20

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Statistics for: 03-Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi)
Number of samples: 10154760
Duration: 3:50
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Left Right

Peak Value: -0.06 dB –- -0.02 dB
Avg RMS: -7.19 dB –- -6.90 dB
DR channel: 5.50 dB –- 5.32 dB
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Official DR Value: DR5

Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1746 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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foobar2000 1.4.1 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2024-08-18 16:29:23

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Analyzed: Hakushi Hasegawa / Mahōgakkō
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR5 -0.09 dB -6.67 dB 2:14 01-Departed
DR4 -0.05 dB -6.42 dB 2:15 02-Gone
DR9 -0.10 dB -12.60 dB 2:33 04-Repeal (Tekkai)
DR6 -0.09 dB -9.07 dB 4:09 05-The Blossom and the Thunder
DR5 -0.09 dB -6.77 dB 3:44 06-KYŌFUNOHOSHI
DR6 -2.07 dB -9.85 dB 0:57 07-NENNEKOKOROMI
DR7 -0.10 dB -9.44 dB 4:45 08-Forbidden Thing (Kimmotsu)
DR13 -4.10 dB -20.29 dB 0:31 09-Mahōinter (v2)
DR5 -0.11 dB -8.07 dB 4:05 10-Boy’s Texture
DR6 -0.07 dB -8.05 dB 1:59 11-Enbami
DR5 -0.08 dB -7.25 dB 3:27 12-Outside (Soto)
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Number of tracks: 11
Official DR value: DR7

Samplerate: 48000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1713 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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