Post-classical, Neoklassik, Indie Classical, Minimal Music, Ambient, Piano Solo, Piano Trio / Classical Music Recording: Erik Satie, Charles Koechlin, Mel Bonis, Gabriel Pierné, Cécile Chaminade, Reynaldo Hahn, Gabriel Fauré, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Félix Le Couppey, Enrique Granados, Edvard Grieg, Béla Bartók, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Music Reviews of Nils Frahm, Akira Kosemura, Henning Schmiedt, Fabrizio Paterlini, George Winston & Ryuichi Sakamoto | Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami & Jean-Philippe Toussaint Studies | Poetry Translations: Paul Éluard, Anna de Noailles, Rupert Brooke
“Furniture Music” is a project to produce relaxing, refreshing, sweet and minimal Ambient Music or Environmental Music for ordinary life, inspired by the concept of Erik Satie’s “Musique d’ameublement”. All tones are made only by Roland SC-88 VA.
from Apfel Café ACM011
featuring plugins: Roland Cloud / Sound Canvas VA SC-88, Audio Damage / Dubstation 2, Waves / TrueVerb
playlist:
1 Music for Mobiles
2 Furniture Music
3 Living Room
4 Wooden Chair
5 Casement Window
6 Small Window
7 Washbasin
8 Home Computer
9 Rain Garden
10 Small Window (Alternate Version)
11 Dining Table
12 Café au lait Cup
13 Milk Pot
14 Writing Desk
15 White Dishes
16 Glass Jug
17 Bathtub
18 Frog Figure
19 Washbasin (Watery Drone Mix)
20 Modern Design Wall Clock
21 Drapes
22 Light Beige Long Pile Carpet
23 Bring Them Home
24 Modern Design Wall Clock (Minimal Music Mix)
First Person Singular is a short story collection book by Haruki Murakami, originally published in 2020. This book is consist of eight short stories.
Descriptions of each of the stories are wrote by simple first person singular noun and its view. So the stories appears to be made by real personal experiences, and their mysterious occurrences and unexpected plots have certain realities and worths. I think readers should read these stories are Murakami’s real experiences. And I felt the purity of Murakami by the voice or connotation of BOKU (僕) the Japanese first person singular noun of which boys and men use and speak. (Only First Person Singular is described by WATASHI (私), the first singular noun of women and serious adult men.)
I enjoyed to read this book, but I couldn’t find new things. There are many frequently appeared motifs and storylines of Murakami’s works. For example, miserable and mysterious woman and her vanishment (Naoko in Norwegian Wood), strange old man like the God suggests a precept or gives a salvation (Colonel Sanders in Kafka on the Shore), longing for lost things (the Spaceship Pinball Machine in Pinball, 1973), black long haired beautiful girl (Naoko, the 100% perfect girl in On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning), support for weak and minor things (American literature in Norwegian Wood), ugly or fat but fascinating woman (pink daughter of the docter in the End of the World), to talk with non-human beings (Commendatore in Killing Commendatore) and to wear suit rarely (Wind-Up Bird Chronicleand Murakami’s some essays). All eight stories, I feel I’ve already read in novels and essays of Murakami. It’s a kind of déjà-vu.
Yet, this book is fine and interesting, and some descriptions are beautiful or wonderful. I think the stories are one of variations of Murakami’s works. But they are splendid variations, and excellent and skilful short stories written by the great veteran novelist. So I recommend this book for lovers of Murakami’s books also first-time readers will enter the world of Haruki Murakami.
Product Details
First Person Singular (一人称単数) Haruki Murakami Bungeishunju, Tokyo, 18 July 2020 236 pages, JPY 1500 ISBN 9784163912394 Contents
On a Stone Pillow
Cream
Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova
With the Beatles
The Yakult Swallows Poetry Collection
Carnaval
Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey
First Person Singular
First Person Singular: Stories Haruki Murakami (Author), Philip Gabriel (Translator) Knopf, New York City, New York, 6 April 2020 256 pages, $28.00 ISBN 9780593318072
