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Release Date:
CD, Digital - 10 Dec 2021
LP - 28 Jan 2022

Ⓟ & © 2021 KITCHEN. LABEL

Meitei’s 2020 album 'Kofū' was the bold bookend to an expedition, where sounds were first navigated and then subverted in 2018’s 'Kwaidan' and 2019’s 'Komachi'. 

All three albums were Meitei’s attempt at immersive storytelling, reimagining moments of Japanese history he felt were being washed away – not least by the unforgiving sands of time – through wistful compositions that stretched across ambient music, hauntology, and musique concrete.

When it came to finalizing 'Kofū', Meitei found he was left with over 60 fully realized tracks, bursting with ideas that fired in divergent, curious directions. Meitei was content with the 13 tracks he had selected. But when it came time to begin his next album, he found that it had been sitting in front of him all along.  He realized his work wasn’t over yet. 

Meitei sounds right at home celebrating the past he first reimagined in his previous work. The merriment is palpable in its first two tracks of 'Kofū II' – a loop of cheery whistling amidst the clanking of wood leads into strings, cricket sounds and flutes, all united in bustling harmony.

'Happyaku-yachō' is where it comes into focus. Pitch-shifted vocal samples roam around in the crowded sonic field. “My image of this music is that it expresses the vibrant mood of Edo's merchant culture,” says Meitei, “where old Japanese dwellings were densely packed together in a vast expanse of land.” The affair becomes bittersweet as the track leads into the desolate 'Kaworu', a compositional piece lifted from his 'Komachi' sessions – a final requiem to his late grandmother.

The album is bursting with spectral vignettes of wandering samurais, red lanterns, ninjas, puppet theatres, poets, even a vengeful assassin ('Shura Yukihime', known to Western audiences as ‘Lady Snowblood’). 

'Saryō' is as elegant and refined as you would expect. It induces stillness in its repetition, with each synth note a brushstroke. It was inspired by a Sengoku-era tea house he once visited, designed by national icon Sen no Rikyū. Meitei tied it to the reaction he felt while poring over the ink paintings in his grandmother’s house. “The decayed earthen walls and faded tatami mats gave me an emotional impression,” he says. “And the cosmic flow of time drifting in the small room. I decided to put my impression of this into music.”

In 'Akira Kurosawa', an appropriately thunderous track, Meitei finds deep resonance in his vast filmography, which drew equally from Japan’s rich heritage and troubled circumstances post-WWII. 

'Kofū II' is not a leftovers album, nor is it a straightforward companion piece. In this album, Meitei has his biggest reckoning with the Japanese identity yet. Over the years, he has attempted to peel back what he believes has defined Japan and its people. After seeking answers with three full-length albums, his fourth poses more questions. 

If his first three albums inspired a sense of longing – or, perhaps inevitably, fed an irreparable nostalgia doomed to history – Kofū II compels us to reassess our relationship with the past.  

By constantly looking back, are we ever afforded a clearer present? After capturing the “lost Japanese mood”, where does that leave its country in the modern world? Meitei offers no immediate answers with 'Kofū II'. It forces you to sit with its disparate moods, to meditate amidst the textured fragments. 

'Kofū II' will be released in 180g LP, CD and digital format on December 10, 2021 (LP expected to land January 28, 2022) via KITCHEN. LABEL. Both LP and CD format are presented in a debossed sleeve with obi strip and include a 16-page insert with words in Japanese and English from Meitei, printed on premium paper stock with design by KITCHEN. LABEL founder Ricks Ang, and is mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama in Tokyo, Japan.

Kofū II

Meitei - 八百八町 / Happyaku-yachō (Kofū II, 2021)

そして旅が終わったら

アヌスPとプリンスの共作ですhttps://soundcloud.com/depajama?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

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U-zhaan + 蓮沼執太 + ヨシダダイキチ - 健康 (Live at commmons10 健康音楽)

A そしてカーティスは途方に暮れる / KEN KEN & URBAN VOLCANO SOUNDS

YOUR SONG IS GOOD / Double Sider（KAKU-083）
12inch Vinyl
2017.07.19 Release
Price: ¥1700+tax
Label: KAKUBARHYTHM

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SIDE A（33RPM）
Double Sider (Original)
Music: Jun Saito

Double Sider (XTAL Dub Version)
Produced, arranged and mixed by XTAL

SIDE B（45RPM）
Double Sider (XTAL Remix)
Produced, arranged and mixed by XTAL

Mastered by Naoya Tokunou

YOUR SONG IS GOOD / Double Sider (XTAL Dub Version)

No Grid Slow Songs for Early Summer

Guitar, Steel Guitar, Mix : beipana

Dusk and Summer

Dusk in the Desert

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Catalog : KOKO-0025 
Format : 12inch Vinyl
Price : 1,680yen ( tax in )
Release : 17 Oct 2012

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Y-1.OKI meets Misako Oshiro / RankuBushi

UA/ 頼りない天使

original : 知名定男 - 花笠節
remake & dubwise - harikuyamaku

recorded at Tower of Dub studio https://soundcloud.com/tower-of-dub-recordings

花笠節(HanagasaBushi)

CROSSPOINT

Contradistinction is intentionally made and
found at the junction of sound and person.
All the energy that is generated will come in to existence there.

音と人の交差点
あらゆる対比を意識的に行い
そこから生まれるエネルギーを創出する


PROCEPTION

Time and Space
The perception of contorted time and space
progression of the evolution to be recorded.

時間、場所
あらゆる意味で時空がよじれた知覚
それを進化させる行程の記録


Y-1.OKI meets Misako Oshiro / RankuBushi

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