Visible Cloaks, Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano - FRKWYS Vol. 15: Serenitatemserenitatem, the fifteenth installment of FRKWYS, RVNG Intl.s collaboration series pairing intergenerational artists in creative conversation, joins Visible Cloaks with Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, two trailblazers of the Japanese avantgarde music and visual arts scenes of the 1980s and 90s. Yoshio Ojima began his career as a composer of environmental and ambient music, with a particular interest, and optimism, in the possibilities of generative

the members started to think about cracking it on a bigger scale

Clement Dodd released this music on a variety of his early record labels such as Worldisc

never heavy-handed but deftly handling themes of loss

Clocking in at an urgent 27 minutes

Uchenna Ikonne

Reverend John Wilkins

alternately propelling and fleet-footing shifting ground to pinion John Dwyer’s cliff-face guitars to the boogie

Emily Elkin

where he contemplates the city of Rugby and finds it an odd source for this new sound

from 'shut up' to 'boys are boys'

which leaned towards the rootsy sounds of Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield

It's as if Waits were determined to combine the Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson characters from Casablanca with a dash of On the Road's Dean Moriarty to illuminate a dark world of bars and all-night diners