To mark his 60th year working with sound, Suzuki's first recording gets reissued and a major retrospective exhibition opens in Australia
In 1979 Akio Suzuki recorded a performance titled New Sense Of Hearing at the Nagoya American Centre in Japan. Working with voice, turntables, glass harmonica and his self-designed instrument the analapos, the recordings were released the following year by ALM Records as his debut album Analapos.
The long out of print record is now being reissued by Lawrence English’s Room40. The new edition of the original single LP has been remastered, and it now includes an interview with Suzuki by Aki Onda plus photographic documentation of the development of his Analapos instrument.
This video shows Suzuki performing on the analapos on the Senriyama Dunes in Hamamatsu, Japan. The recording was originally broadcast in Japan in 1983.
On 30 January a major Akio Suzuki retrospective exhibition called Sense Of Ekō opens at The Substation in Melbourne, Australia.
Analapos is released on 10 February by Room40.
