elusive dance producer David Harrow, the man behind the streetwise jazz beats of James Hardway, teams up with Clive Bell’s collection of Far Eastern woodwind and Mirai Kawashima’s Japanese vocal chords to concoct a feast of heady ambient exotica. Best known as Europe’s leading performer on the Japanese shakuhachi flute, Bell also brings Thai flutes and mouth organs to the party, while Kawashima trades his usual rock guitar for a deep exploration, Mongolian style, of the harmonic resonances of his throat. Harrow’s rich palette of electronica and percussion create a stunning context for some of the most mysterious playing you’ll hear this year, unless you live in Tibet.
PRESS RELEASE 2007

frozen poetry

the debut album from numb and number

1 low maynard 2 frost fair 3 gin-iro no yoake (silver dawn)
4 ballet with magnet fingers 5 hibiki (resonance, character of sound)
6 birdless flight 7 konton kara no keiji (enlightenment through chaos)
8 among the hmong 9 kiyoku (remembrance) 10 your humour is small
11 green sunsets 12 lockwood



numb (cold) + number (23)

clive bell wind instruments
david harrow producer, keyboardist 

special guest mirai kawashima throat singing

recorded in london, los angeles and tokyo.

instruments used: shakuhachi , pi saw flutes, goathorns, hmong khene, seljefloyte, various tuned percussion ensembles, reaktor, mini moog

published by EMI /PRS /magic arts



CONTACT:
studio@workhouse.us

numb and number

biographies

Clive Bell

studied the shakuhachi (Japanese flute) in Tokyo, and the khène (Lao mouthorgan) in Laos and Thailand. Recently he has worked with Jah Wobble, David Sylvian, Kazuko Hohki, Joachim Irmler of Faust, Sylvia Hallett, Complicite Theatre, BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction and the BBC Singers. He writes for The Wire magazine.

David Harrow writer producer remixer
 has worked with Anne Clark , Invaders Of The Heart, Psychic TV, African Head Charge, On-U Sound System, Andrew Weatherall and Gary Clail. 
His aliases include Technova and James Hardway.

Mirai Kawashima

is the leader of Sigh, Japan’s premier black metal group. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.