39:00 by Yama No Shijima

39:00/Yama No Shijima
This work is a recording of an improvised performance by a duo of drums and electric guitar.
No editing or overdubbing was applied.
It was recorded on the night of June 11, 2025, in the suburbs of Kurashiki City, one of Japan's regional cities.

The theme guiding the performance was the timeline.
We constructed a timeline by adding and rearranging the birth months and days of each member.
Within this framework, we reacted to each other, entrusting the flashes of inspiration in that moment to sound.
It overlaps with humanity's image. It is the figure striving to celebrate finite life while bearing countless trials within the vast flow of time, like a great river.

By the way, as the duo's name ‘Yama No Shijima’ suggests, this recording was made at a facility atop a mountain overlooking the Seto Inland Sea.
Mountain weather is capricious and ever-changing.
When the sea breeze, trailing torrential rain, violently shakes the trees, we gasp in awe at the silence that emerges at the vanishing point of that roar. And in this instant, we acutely feel the moment of life, this very moment.

Now then,
In the blink of an cosmic that is human history,
And within that, we are but a faint drop—
When the imprint of our 39:00 moment, that declaration of life,
Is shared via the internet with others we have yet to meet,
What kind of reaction might occur?
We are deeply curious.
It contains this very question:
This is how we live—now, how about you?

Yama No Shijima means “mountain silence.”
An improvised duo featuring drums and electric guitar.

Shouichi Iwamoto is a
Drummer, gamelan player.
https://ayaoyo.bandcamp.com/album/abu

Betts(JP) is a guitarist shaped by the environment.
Motion unveiled, stillness that does not seek to hide.
https://betts-jp.bandcamp.com