Critical Garden

This album is a collection of seven pieces created collaboratively by Hideki Umezawa and Shohei Amimori between 2013 and 2016. The first and last tracks, "Circle I" and "Circle II," are lyrical solo piano pieces by Amimori. In between are two pieces composed by Amimori ("débris dans le jardin I," "cracked_oriented; frz"), two composed by Umezawa (débris dans le jardin III," "Painted Wall"), and one that they composed together ("débris dans le jardin II"). Umezawa put finishing touches on the two compositions by Amimori, and Amimori did the same on Umezawa's original work "Painted Wall." Umezawa's composition "débris dans le jardin III" was performed at Banc d'Essai 2015, organized by INA-GRM. The jointly created work "débris dans le jardin II" won Le Prix ACSM116 at the electronic sound/music concert CCMC 2015.