Three Spheres, Kodomo’s 4th full length album emerges out of the isolation of 2020, hitting an emotional space more potent than his previous work. 

Collaborators include Clarinetist and Saxophonist Chet Doxas, Puremagnetik software/sound designer Micah Frank, and guitarist Philipp Eltz.  

Working primarily out of his studio in Portland Maine, Child worked out his initial ideas on his piano while making heavy use of his modular system to create the drones, textures and nuanced beats which are dominant throughout the album.  The washed out shoe gazed synths, frenetic IDM beats, electro bass, and the production details are tinted with a fragility conveying themes of isolation, struggle, and perseverance.

Three Spheres

A Brief Light Through The Window

A Meditation On Anxiety

Invisible Lines

Reward on Moozar : http://reward-my-music.com/21372 Kodomo’s full-length debut release – titled Still Life – will be released on October 7th, 2008 on New York’s 5 Points Records.  This release features 9 original tracks and a bonus track, “Spira Mirablis” - currently featured in the MTV/Harmonix iPod video game “Phase.” The concept for the record was born of a series of photographs, each one serving as a springboard for the music.  The album explores how images of environments, landscapes, people, and objects are used to evoke musical ideas; each image giving rise to various rhythms, chords, and sonic textures.  The photos were taken in Italy, China, Japan, Switzerland, & around the US.  The CD release has a deluxe package that includes an expanded booklet featuring all 9 photos.

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Kodomo’s full-length debut release – titled Still Life – will be released on October 7th, 2008 on New York’s 5 Points Records.  This release features 9 original tracks and a bonus track, “Spira Mirablis” - currently featured in the MTV/Harmonix iPod video game “Phase.” The concept for the record was born of a series of photographs, each one serving as a springboard for the music.  The album explores how images of environments, landscapes, people, and objects are used to evoke musical ideas; each image giving rise to various rhythms, chords, and sonic textures.  The photos were taken in Italy, China, Japan, Switzerland, & around the US.  The CD release has a deluxe package that includes an expanded booklet featuring all 9 photos.

Concept 3

Concept 1

Concept 16

Concept 10

Spira Mirabilis

Red Giant

Three Spheres Remixes represents the final chapter in the Three Sphere’s series. As with his previous album releases, Kodomo hands over the keys to exceptional artists, who each add their own special magic to the tracks. Remixers this round include Felix Fleer, Michal Wolski, The Sight Below, Corey Fuller, Black Light Smoke, Kaeoflux, Micah Frank, and NRV.

Felix Fleer kicks things off with his post IDM remix of “Spinfoam”, taking the spastic drums from the original and tastefully blending them with a series of intricate and nuanced variations. The Kaeoflux remix for “Heat Death” begins with a cinematic burst, before leading you down a path of sublime beats slowly flowing along effortlessly. The track concludes by melting back into the abyss from which it began. Corey Fuller strips “Invisible Lines” down to a few piano chords and a hauntingly delicate vocal melody, further drawing out the classical nature of this piece. The Sight Below slows things down with his take on “Pink Clouds” which feels hazy and heavy like a lost echo from the original. Michal Wolski launches you into a hypnotic storm with his remix for “A Meditation On Anxiety”, creating a swirling momentum of atmosphere and hard edged techno percussion. Black Light Smoke’s gritty house take on “Continuum” harkens back to the early days of The Orb, fusing vocal samples, an infectious bass line, and a foundational driving dance beat that is made for the club. Micah Frank takes a radical turn on “Invisible Lines”, playing super slow live drums over a bed of washed out guitars and dreamy synth pads and noises. The album’s final rework is from Foil Imprints newcomer NRV, who focuses solely on the ambient qualities of “Pink Clouds”, evoking the images of the fleeting colors in the summer sky’s horizon, bringing the the album to a stunning close.

Artist Bryan Graf created further variations from the Three Spheres cover art.

Three Spheres Remixes

Heat Death (Kaeoflux Remix)

Spinfoam (Felix Fleer Remix)

Seer

SEER 4

SEER 1

Infinity Divided

Impromptu

The latest singles “haze” and “regret” find Kodomo digging back to his earlier electro and IDM influences, incorporating raw analog synths and choppy rhythmic samples.  The making of both these tracks came together rather quickly and spontaneously.  “Haze”, as titled, conveys a vague and dense atmosphere, driven with heavy electro drums and layers of cyclic melodic lines which blur into obscurity toward the end.  “Regret” — an emotionally potent track —  is saturated with sharp distorted beats and chopped up vocal samples, followed by crushing synth pads and solitary piano.

Haze / Regret

02 Kodomo - Regret

01 Kodomo - Haze

Mind Like A Diamond

The third single from the album Patterns & Light featuring remixes by Loscil, Anstam and Symbion Project.


Orange Ocean - (Loscil Remix)

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Decoder

Hajime

Vondisy 1

Vondisy

Desert Places

Saka

Featuring avant-garde ambient heavyweight Taylor Deupree (who also designed the artwork), Brooklyn electronic pop duo Kodacrome (who, interestingly enough, deliver a Vangelis-inspired take here), and Allies for Everyone’s distinct brand of fluttering techno, Endless Waves serves as a fitting epilogue for Kodomo’s Patterns & Light chapter.

Endless Waves

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September Sun [lumia remix]

Divider EP

The follow up to Kodomo's EP Divider featuring remixes from Anstam, Symbion Project, Kodacrome, The Sight Below and Kromafon, along with a previously unreleased song "Nearly" featuring Vandana.

Divider EP (Remixes)

Strike (Symbion Project Remix)

Concept 11 - (lumia remix)

Kodomo is moniker for electronic music producer and composer Chris Child.  Kodomo’s work spans several genera’s and can be cinematic, dance driven, and dreamlike, with roots in IDM, minimalism, techno, and various styles of ambient music.  Child is also an Emmy award winning TV composer and has contributed music for a handful of games developed by Harmonix.  His music is regularly featured on NPR news shows.

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