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Cuushe's 2nd album Butterfly Case will be out on September 23th!

Butterfly Case is Cuushe’s breathtaking second full length album, coming four years after her debut Red Rocket Telepathy and following Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream. 
While Cuushe’s debut focussed on field recordings and found sounds, Butterfly Case sees her move her dreams into reality, expressing herself with analog beautiful tape distorted synths, vocals, drum machines and looped guitars. flau label honcho aus co-produced the tracks, album mastered by Geskia. These new songs let us see a vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before.
The balearic guitar-house of key track ‘I Love You’ has already received praise in the press both in Japan and overseas while tho ambient R&B of ‘Hanabi’ is reminiscent of Cocteau Twins & early 4AD meets soul music.
Cuushe’s unique, beautiful voice and ethereal, beat driven music truly gives us a new dimension in dream pop.

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Cuushe - Twilight

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'Butterfly' taken from Cuushe's new album 'Butterfly Case' (flau, 2013)
Remixed by Kidsuke (Daisuke Tanabe and kidkanevil)
mastered by Geskia!

They came to London for the 2010 edition of RBMA as two of the most distinct voices in electronic beat wizardry. Two years later, their meeting under the Academy roof and their shared passion for intricate organic soundscapes resulted in a full-length joint project called Kidsuke, which was released on Project Mooncircle to much critical acclaim and collegial backslapping. Using a toy-based jam session on kidkanevil’s living room floor as their starting point, the duo’s LP combined a refreshingly creative concept with the synthesized know-how of two highly adept beat eccentrics.

Cuushe - Butterfly (Kidsuke Remix)

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“Butterfly Case” is Cuushe’s brand new breath-taking 2nd full length album, coming four years after her beautiful debut “Red Rocket Telepathy” and the subsequent “Girl You Know That I Am Here But The Dream” EP.

While Cuushe’s debut album put more focus on field recordings and found sounds, in “Butterfly Case”, you can see her moving graciously from her dreams into reality, expressing herself with delicate analog tape, distorted synths, drum machines, looped guitars and her signature feathery vocals. This wonderful album is co-produced by flau label mastermind aus, with Geskia at the mastering helm. These astonishing new songs allow us see a new vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before.


The balearic guitar-house track “I Love You”, which is one of the most popular tracks from the album, has already been receiving raving reviews from the press both in Japan and overseas, while the ambient-ish R&B take in “Hanabi” is a wonderful reminiscent of Cocteau Twins & early 4AD meet soul music. Cuushe’s uniquely beautiful voice, and the delicately beat-driven music that was masterfully produced in “Butterfly Case”, has undoubtedly unfolded a new exciting dimension in dream pop music. by Tim McGregor & Wei Yuen, mu-nest.

Cuushe - Lost My Way

Cuushe - Sort Of Light

This song will be in her 1st EP which is comming soon!  (Feb, 2012 hopefully!)

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Cuushe - Do You Know the Way to Sleep (new song, 2011)
Cuushe is the latest artist on Flau from the city of Kyoto and her CD 'Red Rocket Telepathy' is a bizarre, unique trip down some blurred vision of "dream-pop" lane, showcasing some gorgeous, lilting ethereal vocals, wonky, woozy synths, slow trippy beats &amp; laptop scrunch. Comparisons to the likes of Seefeel are apt and not without good reason but the layering of bizarre smudged sounds &amp; drunken sounding keys recalls early Boards of Canada and Leila's kaleidoscopic bedroom soul and even such random sound texture/noise-art pioneers such as Kit Clayton. I'm really fascinated by this CD, its appeal crosses the normally static boundaries of shoegaze and should be of interest to fans of progressive electronica as well as fans of the more adventurous extremes of "trip-hop" such as Lamb. A very intriguing and magical listen! -Norman Records (feeling Ecstatic)
A most unusual and deeply beautiful album from Cuushe and a hard one to describe in many ways as it blends together many different styles whilst retaining its own unique identity. Constructed from mostly electronic components and using vocals as one of the main focuses of the tracks, there’s an instantly appealing depth and warmth to this. Washes of sound and texture play gorgeously over a selection of downbeat, abstract beats~ You can hear elements of shoegaze in some of the more intense works, but generally there’s a low-key sound that works in an almost subconscious way. The female vocals are delivered in such a way that they feel more a part of the instrumentation than anything else, yet there’s a breathiness and easiness to them that gives them clarity at all times. The sense of melancholy is tangible throughout and I found myself going back to particular tracks again and again just to experience their almost aquatic, underwater sound. It’s beautifully put together and something that I believe will give more and more over time – certainly, the more I listen to it the more I get it. Rarely does music like this leave me struggling for words, but this really has, and I reckon that’s an extremely good thing. As I said before, it’s unique and very, very beautiful indeed. You know what to do… - smallfish
Another delightful abstract pop record from the Flau stable, Red Rocket Telepathy mixes the sensitive, leftfield song formations of Cuushe with the additional mixing and treatments of Yasuhiko Fukozono (of Aus fame) ~ the electronic production is beguiling in itself throughout the tracklist, plumbing depths that might exceed your J-pop expectations. You might even identify a touch of Cocteau Twins coming through during the blurry, weightless vocals and shimmering textures - boomkat
RIYL: Memoryhouse, Grouper, How To Dress Well, oOoOO, Laurel Halo, Glasser,

Do you know the way to sleep

http://www.flau.jp/releases/26.html
http://www.flau.jp/releases/36.html

Cuushe - I Dreamt about Silence

Cuushe - Summer Night Sketch (Botany remix)

you can download the remix on bandcamp!
http://flau.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-know-the-way-to-sleep-slow-magic-remix




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A truly compelling, highly recommended project. - No Fear Of Pop

equally dainty, Cuushe’s elfin coo recalling Liz Fraser, backed by some Boards of Canada-style synth freakiness -Beard Rock

an incredibly beautiful dream pop piece...With its gorgeous array of delicate synth sounds blending seamlessly with the gentle, airy vocal coos, this track could lull even the most insomniatic person to sleep -Hearing Gold

a gorgeous and smooth masterfully-produced affair, whilst containing a crackling warmth and rawness - literally crackling in places. - The 405

These songs are ridiculously easy to become lost in, and if one is looking to be transported to a different place for 15 minutes, those songs are the perfect package -Shout4Music

gorgeously lush and pulsing...with it’s floating vocals, and heavenly ascension -their bated breath

pretty special...snuggles in somewhere betwen Bjork and Sigur Ros, with it’s ethereal nature and complexity of harmony. -crack in the road

The Tokyo songstress takes us on a little journey through old family footages that evokes a feeling of nostalgia and complements the dreamy, languid soundscape of the song -Music For The Masses

dreamy sonic territory...like diving into a giant bowl of uncooked meringue -sniplondon

lot to love in the happy dream pop zone between spartan minimalism and chilly effects slabs. - International Tapes

her voice and dreamy sleep-inducing (hey the clues in the song titles don’t forget) musings prove illuminating. - God is in the tv

sonically constructed to illustrate beautiful dreamscapes with her feathery voices, floating electronic sounds, and heart-melting dream pop melodies - The Couch Sessions

Gorgeous pop filtered through a daydream - Bowlegs Music

Cuushe’s dream-pop slides gracefully into my ears and shuffles me in between daydream states. - Pasta Primavera

The multi-talented Cuushe songs illustrate beautiful dreamscapes with her feathery voices, floating electronic sounds, and heart-melting dream pop melodies. - Fame Magazine

these are the chillwave tunes that should be soundtracking a hazy summertime. Now all we need is the sun - Amelia's Magazine

 

Cuushe - Do You Know The Way To Sleep (Slow Magic Remix)

http://www.flau.jp/releases/26.html

After three years of silence since the release of her captivating debut album Red Rocket Telepathy, contemporary Japanese dream-pop singer, Cuushe is back with a gorgeous new set of breath-taking materials.

In this masterfully produced new EP, entitled girl / you know that I am here / but the dream , the multi-talented Cuushe once again carefully crafted 3 songs that were sonically constructed to illustrate beautiful dreamscapes with her feathery voices, floating electronic sounds, and heart-melting dream pop melodies. Cuushe's amazing voices are always been associated with fascinating words like ”dreamy lilts” ,”gentle whispers” ,“air-ish transparent”, and more prominently: ”achingly beautiful”. In this beautiful collection of dream-pop songs, Cuushe again used her voices as the main instrument to wrap those exquisite synthesizer sounds, elegant strokes of piano and edgy guitar chords, and float them altogether into the air, with layers of vocals and reverb of noises. This amazing soundscape will euphorically transport you to the other side of the never ending dream, where you always wanted to be.

In addition to that, several top-notch artists have enjoyed Cuushe's new sounds so much, that they have came together to make an amazing collection of remixes for this EP.
The very talented Teen Daze, Botany and Blackbird Blackbird masterfully rebuilt her songs into toe-tapping synth-pop masterpieces and chill-wave hits. Polish beatmaker Kixnare added massive bass. On the other hand, Julia Holter made a rare remix using Cuushe ' s sounds material in a gorgeous sound-art way. Motion Sickness of Time Travel , who produced the amazing collage for Cuushe's album artwork, also did a fantastic remix by creating psychedelic, dreamy, ambient sounds with her wonderful voice. If you have enjoyed Cuushe's debut album, you will find yourself difficult to take this EP off from your player. 

mix & treatment: aus
mastering: Miles Whittaker (Demdike Stare)
artwork: Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness Of Time Travel / Quiet Evenings)

Cuushe - Do You Know the Way to Sleep

Cuushe - 9125days of Sleep Waves

taken from Cuushe's new album 'Butterfly Case', will be released September 23th.
http://www.flau.jp/releases/36.html

watch the live session at The 405
http://thefourohfive.com/news/article/405tv-session-cuushe-i-love-you

all info at http://www.facebook.com/cuushe


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