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In the two years that have passed since the release of Joe Mungovan’s debut album A Flower In The Weeds, the performer has been touring consistently around Australia, spreading the energy of his dynamic and striking performance talent to audiences full of new and long-time fans alike.

In that time, he has become one of the East Coast’s exciting new voices, bringing together a natural musicality with a defined storytelling tone. And in pouring inspiration found across these last few years into new sessions, Joe Mungovan has now found himself at the doorstep of a brand new phase: the release of his second studio record, SUGAR, CANDY, LIPS.

Recorded between his own studio on the NSW South Coast, and at the iconic Grove Studios, the album is a beautiful representation of Joe Mungovan’s creativity and artistry as he heads into a brand new year and chapter as a musician.

Sugar, Candy, Lips

Suzanne

Closer

Kid and Lost

Miles Apart Records 13th Release.
"Cassette Tapes Club #7" [MAP-013]
Pictured Resort (@pictured-resort)
SIDE A : 
1. Head West
SIDE B : 
2. First Kids 3. Island On The Moon
▶April 4, 2015 on sale
▷Tape+MP3 / Ltd(only 100 copies) / 600yen(tax out)
▶Mixed by Pictured Resort
▷Mastered by Koji Takagi
▶Art Work by 石井嗣也
http://tsuguya.tumblr.com/

▶Lyric
Head West

We're gonna open the door
And get into the silver RV
To drive through the red dawn
The cool wind whispers
"Boys head west"
And we don't have no other choice
Early this morning

It's summertime again
Nothing's gonna disturb us
So let everything go
Between the horizon and the skyline
Dive into the west coast dream
Don't worry 'bout the things you left in your room

Sometimes something may remind you old time
But never look back behind, just let it be
I'll show you the sunset dreamy way
Sunset dreamy way
I'll never let you fade away
Sunset dreamy way
This world loves us all the time


Pictured Resort - Head West

Stationary Dance (Savant)

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Niet

We are proud to announce a new FLAU artist, Patrick Ellis @patrick, an artist from New York who participated in Machinone's Tokyo Remixes. The first of his releases is a best hit collection from his several mixtapes. It's a collection of glowing, shivering fragments sampled from a variety of records and put together with an outstanding pop sensibility. A dreamy sampling collage that swallows and sublimates various elements of disco, folk, ambient, electro and hip-hop. 
The Selected Works 2010-2015 will be out on digital tomorrow via Bandcamp, soon on all digital platforms.
His first album 'Deserter' is due to be released later this year.

Selected Works 2010-2015

Patrick Ellis - You'll See Things

It began with ‘Kwaidan’, a simmering study on the lost art of Japanese ghost story-telling. Then there was‘Komachi’, baptized in the earthly winds and static that define its comforting sonics.

On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and aesthetics as a provocation — or, as fashioned in the album’s subtitle, a “satire of old Japanese aesthetics”. Each entry’s distinct flavour hasearned Meitei acclaim for conjuring a bygone culture through his transportive form of ambient music. ‘Kofū’ arrives as a deconstruction of this approach. His first release with KITCHEN. LABEL, Meitei has quietly defied expectations set by his previous two albums, while continuing to challenge modern notions of Japanese sounds.

Once again, Meitei resumes his focus on a Japan that has long ceased to be. This time, ‘Kofū’ is deliberately playful in bridging a sensibility that connects this imagined past to the present. Fractured piano chords are the first to greet you on ‘Kintsugi’ before they make way for a spectral elegance that parades the haunted mask of Kwaidan on ‘Man'yō’. 

But like an ambient soothsayer schooled in the art of the 808s, Meitei quickly drives ‘Kofū’ with propulsion on ‘Oiran I’, which shares a sibling in Side B track ‘Oiran II’. On both songs, he builds tension served up by flickering hip-hop rhythms — achieved by carefully processing old drum and metal sounds — with a subversive spirit unforeseen in any of his work thus far.

Dissecting vocal recordings to the point of incomprehensibility, Meitei aims for something stirring beyond- words — not unlike J Dilla and his mountain of cut-up soul samples, or The Caretaker with decaying 78s. He abides by a principle attributed to the master Hayao Miyazaki: “Beyond logic speaks of human nature”.

‘Kofū’ allows full immersion into fragments of the past without the trappings of nostalgia. The tracklist is denoted by prominent (and unseen) figures of this history. Tracks ‘Sadayakko’ and ‘Otojirō’ are named after renowned entertainers from the Meiji era, while ‘Nyōbō’ is dedicated to a long-suffering line of working class women within a patriarchal Japanese society. The sounds of ‘Oiran’, sharing the name of the title bestowed upon courtesans, were sparked after learning about the treatment of red light district workers within this era. It paints a grim picture of baidoku (also known as syphilis) and its ravage spread.

These stories cloud the overall mood of ‘Kofū’, but Meitei takes a Mizoguchi-like approach to mould that unimaginable pain with tenderness. ‘Oiran 1’’s hidden subtitle is Hana, and ‘Oiran II’ is Shiokaze. As Meitei explains, “Hana means gorgeous and glorious. Shiokaze is the sea breeze — for her life.” Tracks like ‘Urameshi-ya’ and ‘Gen'ei’ provide a meditative space amidst the turbulence, while ‘Shōnen’ takes a turn for the cinematic. The eight-minute odyssey is engulfed by shadowy voice loops, mixed best for a headphone experience in a solitary setting.

Meitei bids farewell to an expedition first sparked by a passion for a long-forgotten cultural past. ‘Kofū’ is a definitive conclusion with an open invitation to listeners from Japan and beyond — encouraging continued appreciation of this sacred part of history, wholly untethered from the world at large.

‘Kofū’ will be released on LP, CD and across all digital formats via KITCHEN. LABEL. Chihei Hatakeyama mastered this recording in Tokyo, Japan.

Release Date:
CD, Digital - 25 Sep 2020
LP - 30 Oct 2020

Ⓟ & © 2020 KITCHEN. LABEL

Suzanne

Joe Mungovan

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