{"id":883,"date":"2012-04-15T12:43:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/?p=883"},"modified":"2012-10-22T17:52:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:52:55","slug":"hikashu-appreciation-society-an-interview-with-marc-urselli-the-engineer-of-hikashus-uragoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/hikashu-appreciation-society-an-interview-with-marc-urselli-the-engineer-of-hikashus-uragoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hikashu Appreciation Society: An interview with Marc Urselli &#8211; the engineer of Hikashus &#8220;Uragoe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the pleasure to record and mix the (I believe) 20th or 21st studio album by the popular Japanese avantgarde-rock band <strong>Hikashu<\/strong>, fronted by the great and eclectic <strong>Makigami &#8220;Maki&#8221; Koichi<\/strong> (vocals, theremin, jew&#8217;s harp, cornet), whom I had met while working on the latest DVD album by Ikue Mori (on Tzadik).<\/p>\n<p>Hikashu&#8217;s new album is called &#8220;<strong>Uragoe<\/strong>&#8221; and the cover art work is by Tabaimo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/2012\/04\/15\/hikashu-appreciation-society-an-interview-with-marc-urselli-the-engineer-of-hikashus-uragoe\/hikashu_uragoe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-904\" title=\"Hikashu_Uragoe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-96x96.jpeg 96w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-24x24.jpeg 24w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-36x36.jpeg 36w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-48x48.jpeg 48w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe-64x64.jpeg 64w, https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Hikashu_Uragoe.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"scaledImageFitWidth img aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-pHtqXwpWHzg\/T4G92cpYDmI\/AAAAAAAAAZY\/CyAx4VweBQQ\/s400\/uragoe_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/>I recorded it at <strong>EastSide Sound Studios<\/strong> in NYC after their performance at Japan Society in NY last year. I just recently finished mixing it (also at EastSide Sound) and the famous mastering engineer <strong>Seigen Ono<\/strong> mastered it for CD and Super Audio CD at <strong>Saidera Mastering<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The album can be purchased online from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmv.co.jp\/en\/product\/detail\/4993756\" target=\"_blank\">HMV Japan<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been interviewed by their official blog&#8217;s curator Nori and you can read the interview at the following link:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hikashu-as.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/interview-with-marc-urselli-engineer-of.html\">Hikashu Appreciation Society: An interview with Marc Urselli &#8211; the engineer of Hikashus &#8220;Uragoe&#8221;<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the pleasure to record and mix the (I believe) 20th or 21st studio album by the popular Japanese avantgarde-rock band Hikashu, fronted by the great and eclectic Makigami &#8220;Maki&#8221; Koichi (vocals, theremin, jew&#8217;s harp, cornet), whom I had met while working on the latest DVD album by Ikue Mori (on Tzadik). Hikashu&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,5,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","category-news","category-media","category-recording"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcurselli.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}