Takeshi Nishimoto + Hiroshi Watanabe
Curving Time
We are delighted to present this beautiful project.
Curving Time has a sinuous, luminous quality which is wholly its own, full of clarity and space.
Each player has an equal voices in a deeply atmospheric conversation that feels both inevitable and strangely new.
Takeshi Nishimoto and Hiroshi Watanabe have individually spent more than twenty
years exploring the emotional reach of instrumental music – one through guitar, sarod,
and acoustic composition, the other through synthesizers and electronic production.
This, their first collaborative release, unites these parallel journeys revealing a musical
language where neither electronics nor acoustic instruments take center stage.
The project was recorded on and off for over 12 years between Berlin, Germany and a
private studio in Japan, consequently producing a mix that is unhurried and spacious.
Bass and guitar tones are left room to breathe alongside subtle keyboard inflections and
minimal, restrained percussion. Electronics and acoustic instruments never compete,
They take turns, listen to each other, and occasionally disappear into one another
entirely.