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Our new dream tote with magic hour hues ~ screen printed locally & with the loveliest design by our friend Yusuke Nagaoka 🐚 Available in the web / shop today 🌥

tone poem updated their business hours.

Copies of "Melodies in the Sand" - the stunning retrospective work of the Havels - available now in our web shop 🦋 & another surprise from the Havels coming very soon 🌀

Irena and Vojtěch Havlovi - Melodies In The Sand LP — tone poem “The husband-and-wife duo began working together in the mid 80’s as part of experimental ensemble Capella Antiqua e Moderna, a unique association of musicians whose repertoire spanned various styles of European classical music. With an inventive and unorthodox approach to both historical and mod...

The second installment of the tone poem mix series is now live! Titled ‘sora’, the mix explores the world of 1970s & 80s folk music in Japan, with an emphasis on privately pressed works and floating, dreamlike intimate recording styles. Many thanks to friends Ippei Matsui & Visible Cloaks for tuning us into a few of the tracks featured here. We hope you enjoy 💓☁️

https://www.tone-poem.com/mixes/tone-poem-mix-series-002

tone poem mix series 002 — tone poem A collection of folk music from 1970s & 80s Japan, with a focus on privately pressed works. Featuring songs from Isato Nakagawa , Itsutsu no Akai Fusen , Rabi Nakayama , and many more.

Introducing the tone poem mix series 🌿 A new facet of our website, created to share specially curated sounds by tone poem & friends. The first mix, "liaudies", explores the world between traditional folklore & contemporary folk composition, featuring works from Lithuania, Estonia, and the Czech Republic. Soft sounds to ring in the new year 🔔

The tone poem mix series began as a way to weave titles available in the shop into larger musical narratives. In the process, we began making short, mellow mixes for the shop environment and thought to ask some of our friends and folks in our musical community to do the same. tone poem mixes are available directly through our website, for download & streaming, and new works will be updated regularly. Thanks so much for listening, hope you enjoy 🕯

https://www.tone-poem.com/mixes/tone-poem-mix-series-001

tone poem mix series 001 — tone poem A collection of folklore from Lithuania, Estonia, and the Czech Republic. Featuring the works of Irena & Vojtěch Havlovi , Heino Jürisalu , Folk Music Theatrical Group of Lithuania , and many more.

Hello 🙌 A quick message to say, tone-poem.com is now live! We created this iteration of tone poem’s online presence as a mirror, better reflecting the spirit of the physical space. Along with a new browsing interface, the site itself will help us build a better place to connect with our community during - and after - this time of physical distance. We also added some more affordable international shipment options for faraway friends, and will continue to update our inventory weekly. We hope you enjoy exploring these new digital realms!

Loveliest script handiwork by Jade Novarino
Our beloved tone poem logo by Yusuke nagaoka 永岡裕介

Elated to announce our newest project, a collaboration between le oui & tone poem in the shape of a limited edition silkscreen print by artist Yusuke nagaoka 永岡裕介. You may recognize Yusuke's hand in the tone poem & Incidental Music logos, and we are over the moon to have collaborated with him on this gorgeous two color silk screen - printed here in Portland, Oregon.

Pre-orders for Yusuke Nagaoka's print (leoui—012) available now on le oui's website. We will begin shipping orders on or before December 14th, with international shipping & local pickup options available. https://www.leoui.us/prints/yusuke-nagaoka-leoui-012

10% of proceeds from this print will go to The Black Resilience Fund - an emergency fund dedicated to healing and resilience by providing immediate resources to Black Portlanders.

Yusuke Nagaoka is an Obscure-Narratives-Illustration artist, based in Taipei, Taiwan & Tokyo, Japan. His art is inspired by insights from modern archeology and local culture, and his main forms of expression are drawing, risograph, silk screen printing, and publication. To the present, he has participated in art book fairs and anthology art books published abroad. He also created the logos for Portland-based record label "Incidental Music" and the Nationale-adjacent shop "tone poem".

tone poem is honored to present a very special solo performance by Takako Minekawa this upcoming Thursday, February 20. The intimate multimedia performance at tone poem will evoke the feeling of さざ波 (sazanami), or the ripples on the surface of water. In Takako's words "something reacts and it is an image that spreads out small...(to be seen)". Space is very limited for this small gathering, and admission is available sliding scale at the door ✨

Takako Minekawa at tone poem
located inside Nationale at
15 SE 22nd Ave, Portland, OR
6:30p doors / 7:00p performance
$5-10 sliding scale
Thursday, February 20
artwork by Ippei Matsui
Takako will also be performing works from 'untitled' the following evening at Leaven Community Center alongside Carl Stone and Francesco Botello, co-presented by tone poem and Visible Cloaks. Please see prior post for details!

Very special thanks to Ippei Matsui for the wonderful artwork 🌙

Takako Minekawa was born in Japan on June 3, 1969. She is active in Japan and US and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her primary expression is sound and voice. She most recently presented her collaborative multimedia work, “UNTITLED”, with painter Ippei Matsui in Tokyo in January 2019. She has also presented her work “BOOMBOX-MELLOTRON PROJECT” at Sound Live Tokyo 2013 and multi-channel sound installation “Tokyo Hatsumimi-ku” at Sound Live Tokyo 2015. Since 2012 she has performed with guitarist Dustin Wong.

tone poem updated their website address.