HOMAGE (RM)

Artist: Yu Miyashita
Title: Homage (RM)
Label: The Collection Artaud
Cat #: TCA 45
Format: Cassette (Chrome) / Digital
Country: DE
Release Date: 18 Mar 2021

- TRACKLIST
1. to Leonardo
2. to Ionesco
3. to Goethe
4. to Novalis
5. to Shusaku
6. to Michael

- CREDITS
Originally released on Signal Dada in 2015
Written & Produced by Yu Miyashita
Mastering by Yu Miyashita at Underarrow
Drawing by Takashi Okada

- To The Madly Beautiful World To Death
　
For instance, from when you were little, I guess everyone has had a sense of incongruity to certain extent. It appears to be impossible to judge whether I'm crazy or this world is. Accelerated sensibility seems to rather expose a decisive break between me and the way the world is. However, in order to go forward, taking one firm step at a time must be noble. For example, even if you confront yourself with such a world, who can deny the way you decided to be, live, exist and the path you have endeavoured to discover? I wish I could rather enjoy a contradiction but I'm not born in such a way.
　
There are variety of people sitting in the direction we call the past, when we catch the concept of time linearly. To mention six, Leonard Da Vinci, Eugène Ionesco, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Novalis, Shusaku Arakawa and Michael Ende. There's a feel in myself that what they have left have certain influences on the way I am now. My gratitude to the way they were.

- 死ぬ程狂おしくて美しい世界へ
　
例えば小さな頃からこの世界に対する違和感が皆少なからずあると思う。自分が狂っているのか世界が狂っているのか判断不可能で。加速して行く感受性はこの世界の在り方との決定的な断絶を助長する様でしかなくて。それでも一歩ずつ進む事はきっと尊いし、例え世界と対峙してしまっても其処で見つけた自分の在り方は誰にだって否定出来るものでは無い筈で。矛盾をもっと楽しめたらとは思う、どうやら僕はそんな風には生まれてない様で。
　
時間の概念を直線的に捉えた時に僕らが過去と呼んでいる方向に色んな人達が居る。仮に六人挙げるとすれば、レオナルドダヴィンチ、ウジェーヌイヨネスコ、ヨハンヴォルフガングフォンゲーテ、ノヴァーリス、荒川修作、ミヒャエルエンデ。彼らが残してくれたものが今の自分の在り方に響いている事は確かな感触として存在していて。そんな彼らの在り方に感謝の意を表して。

- Yu Miyashita, 2015