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Umé Records Manifesto Mix #4

Precipitation - Field Recording (Uguisu)
Ki Oni - Plant Life I
Matthewdavid's Mindflight - Tract of Hidden Animalia
iu takahashi - Daydreaming
Forrest - Crystal Suns
Rime Trails - Valediction I
Ulla - Somewhere Else
Øguu - Before Migration Pt. 2 (Umé Records forthcoming)
Rime Trails - Starless Lake of Blue
MIrage Area - Field Recording (Sea)
Emily A. Sprague - Star Gazing
Precipitation - Field Recording (Uguisu) Reprise

Mix by Zefan Sramek

Songs For Spiritual Healing

[16.12.21]
This month we premiere A Brief Time in Four Divisions, the debut release from overseas collaborators Ki One (Los Angeles) & Luke Elliott (Amsterdam) our December 23.

Drawing its inspiration from the sonnets of Vivaldi’s - The Four Seasons, A Brief Time in Four Divisions is intended to transport the listener through the seasons as they naturally undulate and shift over time. Head over to their Bandcamp to cop the release, out next week: https://kionilukeelliott.bandcamp.com/

Off Rotation #20 w/ Ki Oni & Luke Elliott

空を見たら、所々に散らかっている野花の赤、紫、黄色のようにあちこちに飛び交っている。~  Looking to the sky, one can see them flit here and there, like the reds, purples, and yellows of wild flowers scattered here and there.

Umé Records presents the new album from Carlos Ferreira (@carlos-ferreira-sounds) "Sad Loops", out May 15th, 2022.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/sad-loops

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Carlos Ferreira ~ Sad Loops (snippets)

一人一人から自由のオーラが光る。この人たちは何を考えている？何をお祝いしている？ ~  From each person radiates an aura of freedom. What are these people thinking about? What are they celebrating?

Umé Records presents the new album from Ki Oni (@ki_oni) "In This Place, The Leaves Don't Change", out May 15th, 2022.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/in-this-place-the-leaves-dont-change

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Ki Oni ~ In This Place, The Leaves Don't Change (snippets)

今の分散されている世界の中でどのように進んでいく？これは我々が選べることである。~  How will we move forward in this fractured world? This is something we all must choose.

Umé Records presents the new album from Carlos Ferreira (@carlos-ferreira-sounds) & Ki Oni (@ki_oni) "A Hundred Ways of Escaping", out May 15th, 2022.

Listen: https://umerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-hundred-ways-of-escaping

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Carlos Ferreira & Ki Oni ~ A Hundred Ways of Escaping (snippets)

Ki Oni (@ki_oni) presents the 12th installment in the Umé Records mix series.

Salamanda - Melting Hazard
KMRU - they were just too far away
batry pwr - Un1ty Flute (Mikey’s Zither Mix)
Sofie Birch - Surface Pan (feat. A. Fabrin)
H. Takahashi - Seed
tino - For The Stratus Family
Zoh Amba (featuring William Parker and Francisco Mela) - Mother’s Hymn
Julian Stein - after the rain
Loris S. Sarid - Lobster Island (with Bell Lungs)
Patricia Wolf - Upward Swimming Fish
Bitchin Bajas - Chokayo

Umé Mix 012: Ki Oni

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Tracklist —
Jason Kolàr - I Have No Idea - Liquid Rhythm
KMRU & Echium - Fain - Peripheral
Claire Rousay - it feels foolish to care - everything perfect is already here”
Forest Management  - A - Closing credits
M. Geddes Gengras - Parts of a Private Moment - Expressed, I Noticed Silence
Andrew Bernstein - distant cousins of a common ancestor - a presentation
Patricia Wolf - Potter’s Swamp: Dawn Chorus One - Malheur Wildlife Refuse: Late Spring
Hugh Small & Brian Simon Allen - Viridians - The Side I Never See
Camila Ebbia & Patrick Shiroishi - Olvido - 忘却 - The Human Being As A Fragile Article
Ben Vida + Lea Bertucci - Gasps and Spasm - Murmurations
Carl Stone - Coraloense - We Jazz Reworks Vol. 2
Devin Daniels  - Birds of Springtime Gone By - Trio Exposition
Pharaoh Sanders - Kazuko - In An Abandoned Tunnel In San Francisco 1982

ML688: Ki Oni

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Catalog #: GN63
October 1, 2020
2xCASS+DIGI

The midnight hour crept unto thee with hasty caution, revealing 'A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North', our third putrid prowl into Halloween-inspired sounds to torment and tantalize throughout the season. For this bout of distinguished dementia, we culled 31 brand new tracks of haunted hysteria conjured by some of the most alluring ambientists and outer auteurs from around the world. 

Spanning over two hours across two cassettes, 'A Little Night Music…’ unfurls itself in a literary horror structure, appearing and disappearing through a stirring Prologue and Epilogue by London-based cellist Oliver Coates, with each side of the cassettes introducing its Chapter with a chilling dirge courtesy of the inscrutable Geographic North House Band.  

What fills the ensuing pages is a mirthful tale concocted by an assembly exploring a realm all at once mournful and fatalist at its core. Entries from Clarice Jensen, Malibu, and the collaboration of Like a Villain and Christina Vantzou bring about endless glacial landscapes accented by pitch-grey skies. Conversely, transmissions from Michael Valentine West, M. Sage, Gregg Kowalsky, and Austrian ambient stalwart Fennesz explore richly textured mines of foreboding glee. 

Suspicion is the word when considering Zelienople’s eerie horse-carriage clip-clop, Nick Malkin’s neon-lit noir-jazz, or Carmen Villain’s gripping dub excursion. Elsewhere Ki Oni, Takagi Masakatsu, and Mary Lattimore (joined here by Paul Sukeena) provide glimmers of warmth amidst a tortured chill. 

Notable is the resurrection of Lotus Plaza and his solemnly hopeful piano composition, while barren hallucinations courtesy of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Ilyas Ahmed, and Danny Paul Grody set the stage for a third act confrontation from Atlantans Fit of Body and Algiers, providing a one-two serving of sensual unrest and cautionary homily.  

With hope and resolve shimmering through the final moments of our journey, know that all proceeds from the digital and cassette editions go directly toward Feminist Women's Health Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit providing safe, accessible, and compassionate abortion and gynecological care to all those who need it without judgement.

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