Seasel is collaboration between Wool Strings and Table Music Meeting, formed for this project "Between Two Waves" by Eardrums Pop. The group consists of the following members: Naho Aoki : piano, chorus Toshiyuki Ishihara : guitar, bass, drums and chorus Maki Ishihara : glockenspiel, chorus Tohl Kurihara : banjo Ryohei Ameda : vocal, melodica, glockenspiel, guitar and percussion ABOUT WOOL STRINGS Wool Strings is a solo project by Ryohei Ameda from Kanagawa, Japan. He is influenced by Joan Gilberto, The Beach Boys and The Pastels. He started playing the guitar and recording his original songs to his cassette tape recorder by himself when he was 15 years old. After playing in some bands such as Sheepsleeps, Merci-s and Marconi, he began to release the tracks he'd written and stored until then on MySpace. He plays, does recording and mixing all the instruments (except some parts of the flute) by himself. When he has a live show, he usually plays in a band helped by his friends. He released the 1st "The Tree Gate EP" on his own Sea Song Label in July, 2008. "Shirly Poppy" was featured on Eardrums Music compilation "A Good Crop" released in September. Releases on Sea Song Label: Jul.2008 1st EP "the tree gate EP" Nov.2008 2nd EP "picture in the night" Feb.2009 compilation album "two EPs and more" Mar.2009 1st album "language of the snow" May.2009 split CD with table music meeting "four pictures" Jul.2009 free download EP "our spring to their summer" Oct.2009 free download EP (limited time only) "from the morning"* Nov.2009 free download EP (limited time only) "now I'm home"* Dec.2009 free download EP (limited time only) "dark stars,and our small talk"* (titles with* are now unavailable) More information about Wool Strings can be found on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/woolstrings Sea Song Label blog: http://seasonglabel.jugem.jp/ ABOUT TABLE MUSIC MEETING about Table Music Meeting... 2005 Ishihara invited his friends who love music or recording to have a recording camp in Nagano. 2006 The recordings during the 3 days meeting were put together into the album "Do" and pressed into 100 copies under the moniker of Ongakushitsu (means "music room"). 2008 They changed the name to Table Music Meeting. "Clockwork Lamp EP" was released by MiMi Records, Portugal. Free download (http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/uk/album96.php) 2009 Wild Flower Way / Echo Holiday EP was released by MiMi Records. Free download(http://www.clubotaku.org/mimi/uk/album120.php) The 1st album "Hibi" was released on their own label Easel Records in October. The line-up consists of Naho Aoki, Toshiyuki Ishihara, Maki Ishihara, Tohl Kurihara. They are changeable about what instruments they play. They gather several times a year bringing each own ideas, plays and records, focusing on the atmosphere and their inspirations at the moment. After a session they put titles to pieces of music or a tune-like. http://www.myspace.com/tablemusicmeeting SHORT INTERVIEW: 1. Tell us the story about the song (all the details, please!) In the autumn of 2009, Wool Strings and Table Music Meeting (TMM) gathered together for several times at the private studio in Aichi, owned by TMM Ishihara, to rehearse their two live shows at Aichi and Tokyo. They often improvised as they like during the rehearsal and all the process were recorded. The drops of music which were played sometimes as if they feigned joking, sometimes seriously,had remained to store for a while in a recorder. However, Wool Strings Ameda came up with the idea of making one track from the pieces when he heard about this project by Eardrums Music. He put the pieces into the PC, cut and pasted, reconstructed and completed one new track, trying his best to keep the vividness and the eccentricity which can exist only at that very moment. Ameda sent the track to TMM Ishihara, who lives further west than his place. (Kanagawa => Aichi) Toshiyuki Ishihara overdubbed the drums, the bass, the guitar, the chorus etc. in his studio. His wife Maki added the chorus. After that Ishihara sent it to another member Aoki, who lives further west than his place. (Aichi => Kyoto) Aoki overdubbed multiple chorus and sent it back to Ishihara. (Kyoto => Aichi) Ameda and Ishihara exchanged the track with their ideas via e-mail again and again. (Kanagawa <=> Aichi) Finally this tune saw the light of the day. (Japan => => ) 2: Why did you choose to work together, and how did you meet? Wool Strings and TMM met in the summer of 2008 through MySpace. We were surprised that our top friends and the order of them were almost the same. Moreover we had a lot in common with our music each other. After communicating through MySpace for a while, we coproduced a split CD "Four Pictures" in May of 2008. We also had some live shows together. This compilation project led us to decide to collaborate officially as one group, Seasel. 3: Do you have plans to do more music together? We haven't had a specific plan but we will hopefully make other tracks and release them in some format. Other comments? If you liked Seasel, have a listen to Wool Strings and TMM. Surely you would like them, too. CREDITS written by Wool Strings and Table Music Meeting photo of Seasel by Kumiko Tachibana Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.