This mix is beautiful. Any chance of IDing this song?

mixtape

Following in the footsteps of the pathbreaking Minna Miteru compilation of Japanese indie music, Morr Music and Alien Transistor have again joined forces to release The Fruit Of Errata, a compilation introducing the world to the intimate DIY pop of yumbo. Led by songwriter, pianist, and occasional vocalist Koji Shibuya, the Japanese band has released four albums since forming in 1998. This compilation draws fifteen songs (eighteen on vinyl) from those albums, and some ancillary releases, to uncover a biographical narrative of yumbo, showing how Shibuya’s songwriting, and the group’s limber, sensitive playing, has developed over the decades. It also places them squarely within a tradition of home-spun but ambitious Japanese pop that takes in Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Tenniscoats, Nagisa Ni Te, Yuzo Iwata, Kazumi Nikaido and more.

yumbo is very much the vision of Shibuya, an amiable iconoclast whose songs seem informed by some of his early listening – there’s the playful seriousness of Maher Shalal Hash Baz’s Tori Kudo here, an avowed long-time hero for Shibuya, but also the flexibility of freely improvised music. You can also hear Shibuya’s fondness for Mayo Thompson and The Red Crayola in both the idiosyncracies of the writing and the egalitarian looseness of the playing. Shibuya also carries those energies into the group’s membership – there are fantastic stories of him having a conversation at a record shop, or overhearing someone speaking, and asking the person in question to join yumbo as one of their various singers. He seems open to chance as a driving force, as a way to make space for unexpected possibilities to blossom.

The great achievement of yumbo and Shibuya, though, is translating all of this into beautiful, unpredictable pop songs. There’s a gorgeous soul-inflected lilt to “A House” that makes it delightfully affecting; the swaying brass on “Storm” propels its melody to a moody, dreamlike conclusion; the nakedness of “The Sweetest Mass” is slightly reminiscent of Carla Bley’s more pop-focused writing, crossed with the classicism of the songs that spilled from the Brill Building in the ‘60s. Throughout, Shibuya renders pop a deeply personal experience; you can hear musings here on friendship, family, intimacy, the complexity of relationships, mortality, and imbalances of power. These musings are also shadowed by real-life events: the effects and impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 are captured in songs like “Umbrella People” from Onibi.

Throughout the performances on The Fruit Of Errata, Shibuya and the group play with tenderness; they also often draw on other players to flesh out the music even further, two such guests being the aforementioned Tori Kudo (on “Umbrella People”) and Olympia, Washington’s LAKE (on “The Devil Song”). Community-minded and generous in approach, the writing of Shibuya and the music of yumbo is never less than lovely, and The Fruit Of Errata is a welcome introduction to their world. Open and gentle, confident and generous, these pop songs are filled with charm and spirit.

The Fruit Of Errata

LP/CD

yumbo: A House

Put your headphones for an indulgent half hour curated by the experimental Japanese label.

Read more (including tracklist): http://www.dummymag.com/mixes/dummy-mix-179-flau-records

Dummy Mix 179 // Flau Records

sampo no oto 20211010 - morimoto naoki

Sparrows celebrates his first album 'Collected Visits' by a wonderful mix feat. his favorites and birds chirping.

Read more (including tracklist): 
http://flaumusic.tumblr.com/post/64867090540/sparrows-mix-for-oriental-greenfinch

the album 'Collected Visits' will be released on Nov.6th from flau.
http://www.flau.jp/releases/38.html

FLAUCAST: Sparrows - Mix for Oriental Greenfinch

Mothfly is the music project of Eunice Kim, who was born and raised in Tokyo and currently spends her time between Korea, Japan, and the US. She is a multi-talented artist who not only makes music, but also illustrates and works in media art. She produces experimental pop that mixes electronic elements with warm acoustic sounds.
Her first single Pure is a minimal dream pop track that undulates between melancholy and hope. It layers fragile but warm sounds from electric and acoustic cello, analog synthesizer, and voice.

"Writing this song served as a kind of meditative healing process for me. It’s about mourning lost innocence. I recorded it in my room and my friend’s room in Seoul and Los Angeles. I wanted to convey a sense of sincerity and intimacy through the rawness of the arrangement and the recording." - Eunice Kim

Mothfly - Pure

~ LAAPS 021 ~ [SEQ.03 - LP21]

artist : Tomotsugu Nakamura
 album : Nothing Left Behind
duration : 41.06 mn
 date : July 21st, 2022

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 300 copies / marble ultra-clear + violet LP / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 27th, 2022 / official release : July 21st, 2022
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All songs written and produced by Tomotsugu Nakamura.
Recorded between Nov 2020 and Sep 2021.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Russel Burden
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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https://laaps-records.com/
https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/

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Tomotsugu Nakamura - Poolside

FLAU - 25/11/2022

Rayons - A Fragment Of Summer

2015年 12月 24日発売。
NBストアでは先行販売予約開始!! 未発表音源CDR特典つきです!!
https://t.co/AQiEVOmvyL

“When I go into the nature and focus on particular sounds as if I were the conductor, I find there are numerous accidentally composed music playing here and there. And my idea was to join this nature orchestra providing sounds to them to form another different world which would enable myself to listen to them from a completely different angle.
I decided to use water as the main theme as I’m somehow attracted to them maybe as I grew up in a place where it’s cloudy and raining all year around. Sounds evolved accidentally from different places of different period and times, and that very moment I played / not played to them. To me, it was full of excitement to join the nature. Some sounds were able to record upon countless visits, and some just happen to be lying there. I tried different approaches so that people can enjoy and face each and every sounds. It would be my pleasure if you can listen to the happenings and the inevitable, and also conscious and the subconscious. “

この作品は、自然の中で自然の音と共に演奏をし、後に多重録音などをしないというコンセプトで作った作品です。
僕は自分が指揮者にでもなったつもりで音を選んで聴けば、身の回りには常に偶然に作曲された音楽が溢れていると考えていました。
そして、その偶然のオーケストラに自分も参加し、自分が音を足すことで全く別の聴き方が出来たり、自然の音が自分で演奏しているかのように感じられたり、無かった世界を生むことが出来ると考えていました。
作品のモチーフに水を選んだのは、年中雨や曇りの土地で育ったからなのか、昔から水の音や水っぽい場所に惹かれていて、何かを創作する際に水をモチーフにし続けてきたからです。
色々な年月、色々な場所で、その時間、その瞬間に偶然鳴った音。
ある瞬間に自分が鳴らした音、鳴らさなかった音など、自然と一緒に演奏をする醍醐味が作品内に詰まっています。
何度も何度も何度も通い尽くして録音出来た音や、たまたまそこに居たから録れた音など、1音1音とじっくりと向き合ってもらえるよう色々と趣向を凝らしました。
偶然と必然、作為と無作為なんかを意識しながら聴いてもらえたら良いなぁと思います。

松本一哉 / kazuya matsumoto

水のかたち / Shape of water
01:  触れる / Touch
02: 踊る水面(みなも) / Dance of the water surface
03: 刻む / synchronize
04: 溜水する鉄の球 / Slipping iron ball
05: 鳴嚢と泡沫 / Vocal sac and bubble
06: 叩く / Knock
07: 梅雨の終わりと夏の始まり / End of rainy season, beginning of summer
08: ひぐらしそのひぐらし / When They Cry
09: 撫でる / Stroke
10: 秋霖 / Autumn night rain
11: たゆたう水月 / Sway of the water moon
12: 混ざる/ Blend
13: とことこと夜の足音 / Silent foot steps at night
14: もえもえ燃える雨ふるふる / Just the sound of bonfire and the rain
15: 擦る / Rub
16: 波に消える波紋音 / Ripple vanishing into the wave

『水のかたち / Shape of water』 Trailer.1

Ametsub - wind day

http://www.thefader.com/2012/08/28/download-flau-records-fader-mix

Flau Records FADER Mix

In 2006, flau honcho aus @a-u-s made a mixtape for a gig 'dot' at SALON, Koenji with El Fog, Yui Onodera and Yusuke Kamijima. When the mix was published in International Tapes @mrintl, an introduction by E.Neubauten and Tsumugine was added in 2012 . The mix includes many tracks by Japanese artists, mainly from the internet archive and early electronics.

tracklist>> https://www.mixcloud.com/simiangibbons/aus-mixtape-for-international-tapes-a-dream-within-a-dream/

ausmix

aus (mix for International Tapes)

~ LAAPS 005 ~ [SEQ.01 - LP05]

artists : Tomotsugu Nakamura
album : Literature
duration : 40.24 mn
 date : July 13th, 2020

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / yellow colored vinyl / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 200 copies / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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pre-order : June 22th, 2020 / official release : July 13th, 2020

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All songs written and produced by Tomotsugu Nakamura

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Nicola Odemann
Design by Sprflxgrfzm

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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.facebook.com/laaps.records/
https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/
http://tomotsugu.tumblr.com/

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Tomotsugu Nakamura - Literature (album preview)

Meandering through his label’s multifarious maze of musically mesmerising releases, Flau’s Yasuhiko Fukuzono aka aus, harvests a mellow mix of tracks to encourage us to recline, unwind and drift off.

"The tracks I’ve chosen for this Slumber mix are a sonically diverse array of sounds from flau’s catalogue over the past 6 years incl. folktronic, classical, avant-garde, dream pop, microsounds, audio collages and complex beat experiments. Featuring an international cast of artists, I wanted to represent a vast repertoire of work, but still retain the soothing and subtle sound aesthetic that has become synonymous with the label’s musical output. I’ve just returned to Japan from touring Europe and was a little absent-minded when creating the mix due to jetlag. Some people say that sunlight, water, medication, coffee and changing your body temperature can help you beat jetlag. For me it’s about relaxing, and there’s no better way to relax then by listening to music. In a way, this mix is my way of beating jetlag. It’s the perfect mix to unwind to. So slip on your headphones, sit back and wonder off to the ethereal sounds of everblooming cherry blossoms."

Tracklisting:
Part Timer - Closing the Opera House
Twigs & Yarn - Yuurei
El Fog - Mountain Dub
Cuushe - I Dreamt about Silence
Noah - Dune
Dale Berning - Piano
Novisad - Yappari
Liz Christine - Or Ten Pills at Three O'Clock
Cokiyu - In the Air
Geskia - 1977Ugly/2004IdealCopy
Colophon - 7 First Day Back fro Brooklyn/Fingers Through Your Hair
Orla Wren - Two Note Winter
0 - Sonando 2
Kanazu Tomoyuki - April
IKEBANA - Ikebana (version)
The Boats - The Melody Mosquito
aus - Urum (The World On Higher Downs Remix)
Christoph Berg - Notturno
Radiosonde - Windcoming
Masayoshi Fujita - Story of Forest
MayMay - If It Remains Light
Madegg - New Heads
SELA. - E Loop

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Slumber Sessions: Flau

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan.

general inquires: flau@flau.jp
press: press@flau.jp

Motohiro Nakashima/Kumi Takahara/Seigen Tokuzawa & Masaki Hayashi/Kazumichi Komatsu/FEM/Spring In A Small Town/The Future Eve feat. Robert Wyatt/Same Waves/Cicada/Madegg/Henning Schmiedt/CRYSTAL/Rayons/Nemui PJ (kidkanevil & noah)/Noah/Submerse/Radicalfashion/Stefan Jós/Cuushe/Rima Kato/Machinone/Ulises Conti/Danny Norbury/Sparrows/IKEBANA/Ensemble 0/Masayoshi Fujita/El Fog/Liz Christine/Twigs & Yarn/MayMay/Cokiyu/Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven/Kanazu Tomoyuki/The Boats/Kumisolo/Novisad/aus/Dale Berning/Part Timer/Colophon(Jefre-Cantu Ledesma)/Geskia/Orla Wren/Sylvain Chauveau

events:
julia holter / ólafur arnalds / julianna barwick / sharon van etten / grouper / james blackshaw / kira kira / deaf center / rachel grimes / masha qrella / pascal pinon / ryan francesconi & mirabai peart / otto a totland / erik k skodvin / rauelsson / dustin wong / safety scissors / tape (häpna) / serafina steer / florencia ruiz / grand salvo / aspidistrafly / caroline / federico durand / f.s.blumm / springintgut / the mistys / sophie hutchings / spartak / celer / en / rachael dadd / tomi lebrero / takuji aoyagi | 青柳拓次 (kama aina) / tenniscoats | テニスコーツ / tujiko noriko / 内橋和久 | kazuhisa uchihashi / トウヤマタケオ | takeo toyama / bun / fumitake tamura / saphhire slows / shuta hasunuma / gutevolk / squares on both sides / patten / ian hawgood / smile down upon us / pan am scan / the young group / mitä kuuluu / 大谷友介（オオヤユウスケ）/ 伊藤ゴロー |ito goro / mama!milk / 石橋英子 | eiko ishibashi / 阿部海太郎 | umitaro abe / organ-o-rounge / tatsuhiko asano / kyo ichinose / miki / predawn / mmm / 曽我大穂 (cinema dub monks) / 坂田学 / popoyans / 青葉市子 / 麓健一 / 扇谷一穂 / 王舟 / 青木隼人 | aoki hayato / sawako / trico! / miko / ikebana / rayons / minakumari / カラトユカリ | karato yukari / yok / rima kato / oh' yoko / 惑星のかぞえかた / voq / 小鳥美術館 | nagisa shima /

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