Noli me tangere, by Kawol Samarqandi

Noli me tangere

by Kawol Samarqandi

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	1.	Track 1 23:07
	2.	Track 2 30:55

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The title of Kawol Samarqandi's new album is "Noli me tangere" and makes explicit reference to the words that, in the Gospel of John, where the risen Jesus addresses to Mary Magdalene. In the Gospel the phrase continues: "nondum enim ascendi ad Patrem meum" "in fact I have not yet ascended to my Father", and is interpreted as Jesus' exhortation to Magdalene not to investigate, by touching him, whether he still had a real body after the resurrection since, having not yet ascended back to the Father, his body could not fail to be real. The scene mentioned by Giovanni has been a frequent subject of artistic representation, but it is the first time I have found it in the title of a musical work.

The sounds of Kawol Samarqandi show us a way to grasp a totality, a more complete and complex vision that remains hidden in the fragments themselves and in the spaces that surround and connect them. “Noli me tangere” must be listened to calmly, in a non-superficial way: these fragments, often so catchy and melodic, fade away but leave their aura, their breath to resonate for a long time in our ears.

I believe that Kawol invites us not to hold onto his music, to let it go so that it becomes even more loaded with hidden meanings that we can only grasp. Samarqandi expresses the sense of imperfection, of the unresolved, of the asymmetrical. In the rarefied, poor atmospheres he created we perceive unknown and fascinating messages, which perhaps dismay and seduce us and which transmit a new and refreshing conception of art and beauty. Samarqandi shows us an allusive rather than descriptive beauty, sentimental rather than rational, enemy of symmetry, lover of the penumbra more than full light, the poor and infinitesimal beauty of the imperfect.

“Noli me tangere” seems to exalt everything that is not finished and can conflict with the opposite principle of traditional pedagogy, in which what is left unfinished is seen as a weakness or deficiency. This sense of "incompleteness", however, can be seen as a call to participate in listening, leaving the listener to draw beauty from the sounds for him, introducing a sort of deliberate frustration, calculated from the desire to know. Let yourself be enchanted.

Andrea Aguzzi

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released April 26, 2024

A=432Hz tuned Journey Instruments
OF310 acoustic guitar, voice: Kawol SamarQandi
Ambiance and Influence: Meacha
1bit live recording by meacha at Yokohama AIREGIN on November 17,
2023.

Converting and editing: Kawol at 432den, seaside.
Photography: Kawol
Design and layout: Atharwa Deshingkar.

Special thanks to Michael Sill, Mr. Minoru Umemoto, Mrs. Yoshie
Umemoto, and Mary Meacha Goldfish all music by Kawol SamarQandi.

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Kawol Samarqandi Japan

Kawol Samarqandi is a composer and improviser of guitar from seaside Japan. His compositions are delicate fragments of beauty and introspection.

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