Uncertainty EP, by Hiro Ama

Uncertainty EP

by Hiro Ama

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Jason Thanks. Lovely and relaxing to play while my students are doing work.

jaykothari I thought it was fragmented but in a really perfect way, and the tracks came together in moments of beauty that were fleeting but just the right length. The sounds and textures of the records were both industrial and natural, as if it was produced in an abandoned and now overgrown factory. Favorite track: Broken Satellite.

Great work, Hiro! I came across this thanks to radio play on the Tom Ravenscroft show, and I love the whole EP. Hope there is more to come! Hugo (Molten Funk Tornadoes)

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1.	Anaesthetic 02:22	buy track
2.	Broken Satellite 04:36	buy track
3.	Warp 02:40	buy track
4.	Letter From Lahore 04:02	buy track
5.	Fragments of Ash 03:44	buy track
6.	Outro 01:31	buy track

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The chance to slow down and take stock can be a welcome one. Hiro Amamiya certainly isn’t alone in feeling like life’s currently on pause, but the Teleman drummer’s debut solo EP Uncertainty comes during a rare break after eight years, three albums and numerous globe-trotting tours. Now comes time to reflect.

Saying that, Uncertainty isn’t a reflection on his ‘day job’ specifically. In fact, listening to it, it’s very little to do with Teleman at all. Released under the moniker Hiro Ama, the EP’s tonal references to Hiro’s Japanese homeland, use of field recordings and the pared-down house rhythms that underpin its six tracks offer a sense of staying still and expressing the thoughts, memories and emotions that flooded his mind during a period of self-isolation.

“This EP is a mixture of feelings like sadness, loneliness, confusion, hope and nostalgia” says Hiro. “It was a bit like writing a diary, only I wrote music instead.”

There is no specific narrative to Uncertainty. It was written, recorded and mixed within a month inside Hiro’s London flat; each track arrives to the listener much like a memory or thought would come to the artist. For example the shimmering house of Broken Satellite, for example, was inspired by an image of a disused satellite orbiting earth.

Self-taught at guitar and piano, there’s an intimacy to Uncertainty, with those instruments sitting alongside Prophet 8 and Polysix keys. The constant scuttling clicks and shuffles of percussion are all taken from field recordings Hiro took from his own garden – even the kick drum is sampled from a heartbeat – and give the effect of an EP that’s up close and personal, even when it unfurls and skips along at pace.

Hiro has always worked on his own music away from Teleman, but it’s only relatively recently it’s become more visible - with remixes in 2018 and last year for Alabaster de Plume and Rozi Plain respectively. Uncertainty is altogether different though, a deeply personal and frequently beautiful journey into the mind of its creator.

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released September 4, 2020

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