Hinode Tapes

Hinode is Japanese for “sunrise”: the band’s members see it as a new musical opening. “Tapes” comes from their love of long, improvised forms. In lieu of titles, the tracks on their 2022 debut are labeled with a sequence of number, like old radio recordings. Hinode Tapes is the brainchild of Piotr Kaliński—a.k.a. Hatti Vatti of the project titled Nanook of the North—who says his main source of inspiration is Japanese ambient music and the intersecting improvised jazz scene.