We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Downtown / Shitamachi - Reona Ueda Remix

by Kyle Forester, Reona Ueda

supported by
Philip Sutton
Philip Sutton thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

about

Downtown / Shitamachi is Reona Ueda's remix of the song Downtown written and composed by Kyle Forester.

The word Shitamachi is the original title Downtown translated to Japanese word by word, namely shita and machi meaning down and town respectively. Unlike the English word downtown, Shitamachi is a traditional name that indicates Tokyo’s old downtown area specifically, in contrast with the upper area called Yamanote, implicating the geographical and class differences.

In this piece, a short life story taking place in downtown Manhattan told in the original version is juxtaposed with another from Shitamachi. Those from completely different contexts come to relate to each other, in sounds produced only from field-recordings and found objects collected around various spots in Shitamachi from 2017 to 2019.


--
The field-recordings are used as sound sources in a sampler played with keys, as impulse responses for reverbs, and as additional sound snippets. The found objects are played by hands.

Field-recordings:
a bus, chimes and signals played through public loudspeakers, a cicada, crickets, an emergency ambulance, hanging bells (furin), motorbikes, ritual hand-claps (tejime), riverside fireworks and the audience, Shinto temple bells (hontsubo-suzu), shopping street ambience, a street performance by a banana auction seller (banana no tataki-uri), subway station ambience, subway trains, traditional instruments played in a Buddhist temple garden (taiko, bamboo flute and bell tree), traffic signals, wind

Found objects:
coffee beans roasted and ground in-house, empty drink cans, fallen stems, a plastic bag

credits

released February 11, 2022
Performed and produced by Reona Ueda
Additional vocals by Eri Hanyu

Original vocals by Kyle Forester & Erika Spring
*Taken from the songs “Downtown” and “Imitation of Imitation” by Kyle Forester

Artwork by Reona Ueda
Contains stills from Sumida River fireworks video footage by Ikunori Yamamoto

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Kyle Forester image

Kyle Forester New York, New York

contact / help

Contact Kyle Forester

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Downtown / Shitamachi - Reona Ueda Remix, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now