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Felix Valloton

Félix Vallotton. Marée haute dans la lumière du soir, 1915.

Mirror, Andrei Tarkovsky

An instantaneous mirror of memory, every photograph leaves a motionless trace of what has been, a fixed imprint of something that is no longer what it was before, a silent simulucrum of someone who was disappeared forever from our field of vision. And as a simple act of remembering, the photograph seems to testify only the disappearance and death of people and of the feelings that blind us to them, of things and of the places where they belong.

A. Tarkovsky

Mirror, 1975.

Oasis Of The Wind II / Takashi Kokubo

Oasis Of The Wind II ~A Story Of Forest And Water~, 1993

Takashi Kokubo

Best known for his "image albums,"¹ Takashi Kokubo creates commercial musical compositions meant to breathe life and personality into a character through sound. These songs are found in anime, manga, and Japanese commercials, accompanying a protagonist or even inanimate objects: a printer, a glass of whisky, a cell phone. Such is the all-encompassing universe of Japanese sound design.

Kokubo's most famous work is Get At The Wave, an enchanted musical story made for luxury air conditioner Saryo in 1987². The track compilation above, Oasis Of The Wind II ~A Story Of Forest And Water~, is part of his Ion Series, in which he released ten albums over the course of 1992-1993. It is ethereal, tranquil, and will transport one to a world far from the stresses of urban life.

About Tekuno

Tekuno is a San Francisco-based tea company that works directly with farms and producers to showcase the quiet yet expansive world of Japanese teas. Each year, we source seasonal teas that are unique in their expressions of their terroir, tea makers, and processing. We aim to represent each tea with the same nuance and respect as that which went into crafting it. In doing so, we hope to inspire meaningful interactions—with one another and with our Earth.
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