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Passepartout Duo is formed of Nicoletta Favari (IT) and Christopher Salvito (IT/US), who since 2015 have been on a continuous journey travelling the world’s corners, engaged in a creative process they term “slow music”. Drawing from a carefully selected palette of electro-acoustic textures and shapeshifting rhythms, Passepartout Duo’s work investigates the way in which we listen to and connect with sound. Having been guests of many notable artist residencies and with live performances in cultural spaces and institutions, their evocative music escapes categorisation.

Makoto Inoue and Yasushi Yamashita’s Inoyama Land project spans nearly four decades and remains active to this day. Formed in the 1980s as a side project from Hikashu, they began recording sessions and producing theatrical pieces combining their family names to form Ino-yama and the fictional “Land”. They drew the attention of Haruomi Hosono, who produced their now highly revered debut album “Danzindan-Pojidon” (1983) before becoming involved in the environmental music business alongside contemporaries like Satoshi Ashikawa, Hiroshi Yoshimura and Jo Hisaishi. Their works have been released internationally, including Light in The Attic Records’ Grammy-nominated compilation “Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990”, WRWTFWW records, Empire of Signs, and Longform Editions, and most recent album from Tonal Union, collaborating with Passepartout Duo, producing a global resurgence and admiration of the environmental music movement.