Anicca

フライング・ロータスの盟友にしてBrainfeeder屈指の桃源郷を描き出す天才マルチ・アーティストティーブス超待望の最新アルバム発売!

フライング・ロータスの盟友にしてエレクトロニックやビート・シーンで注目を集めるプロデューサー/ビートメーカー、そしてアート・クリエイターでもあるティーブスが超待望のサード・アルバム『Anicca』をリリース!!実に5年ぶりとなる本作は、アニマル・コレクティブの中心メンバーであるパンダ・ベア、名門〈Stones Throw〉で活躍をしているスーダンアーカイブスとMNDSGN、LAシーンの重要人物であるミゲル・アトウッド・ファーガソン、そしてケンドリック・ラマーとのコラボでも知られるアンナ・ワイズなどが名を連ねる通り、コラボレーションにもオープンになりながらも彼自身の持ち味が発揮された色鮮やかなサウンド・プロダクションは健在。仏教でいうところの「無常」を意味する言葉をアルバム・タイトルに冠しながらも、不変のティーブス節が極彩色で描かれた期待通りの一枚!

Working as Teebs, producer Mtendere Mandowa developed a distinctive style of floating, dreamlike beatmaking, one that reflected the easygoing climates and warm breezes his Los Angeles environs. Following his 2014 album Estara, Teebs became a father and music took a back seat to parenthood for a time. Life lessons and personal experiences from the five years between new work inform his 2019 album Anicca, a warm and generous-feeling collection of Teebs signature ethereal production and collaborations with like-minded peers. The album opens with the languorous ambient piece Atoms Song, made with Icelandic musician Thomas Stankiewicz. The slowly unfolding track is a perfect prelude for Anicca, with minimal percussion-based beats and scattered string arrangements blurring into different lush atmospheres as the track ambles forward. Stankiewicz shows up again for the placid album closer, Muted, bookending an album about growth and learning with its most patient, comforting songs. In between, Teebs is joined by a plethora of guest vocalists who compliment his simple-yet-meticulously crafted productions. Sudan Archives shows up for the smoky drift of Black Dove, adding layers of breathy harmonies to a pulsing stop-start beat. The song speaks of youthful insecurity and anxieties, but delivers the lyrics with a steady confidence. Teebs relaxed instrumentals range from the gentle celestial looping of Marcel to more rhythm-forward tracks like Mirror Memory, and he intersperses them with songs featuring cameo vocalists. Anna Wise reflects softly on inner demons on the gorgeous Threads, and Panda Bears one-of-a-kind harmonizing graces the jaunty Studie. Elsewhere on the record, Teebs is joined by Daydream Masi, Pink Siifu, and other guests who bring a wide range of color to the already bright album. A sense of nearly parental patience and understanding flows throughout, reflecting some of the maturation and new feelings Teebs was living through while making Anicca. Its another excellent slice of the producers developing language, one that manages to be mellow without fading into the background. ~ Fred Thomas

コラボに対してオープンになったとかでドッとゲストが増えるも、連綿と続く心地の良いビートと陶酔を促すサウンドスケープに変化はなく、一歩間違えたら異世界へと導かされそうな雰囲気の5年ぶりアルバム。スーダン・アーカイヴスやアナ・ワイズとのディープな邂逅もいいが、白眉はパンダ・ベアとの"Studie"で、彼の口から漏れる甘美なメロディーの裏では音が歪み、三半規管が揺れるよう。
bounce (C)青木正之