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Ryu Yoshizawa, you freaking composer you! You are AWESOME!!! Greetings from a castle in germany.

Annulus is Ryu Yoshizawa’s third release on Orange Milk as Koeosaeme. His 2019 LP Obanikeshi was a barrage of high resolution abstract compositions, and Annulus picks up from there, refining the style and adding an extra layer of inspiration from the Southeast Asian folk music of Burma, Thailand, China, etc. He inserts music concrete with silky repetition, making you feel as if you are walking through parts of Asia, contemplating experimental music. Annulus is peaceful, melodic, atonal, and flows together as one big piece. Part 1 of the record is concrete music, and Part 2 is described as abstract music. It is distinctly Japanese despite other western influences like Steve Reich and Jon Hassle; music meant for a documentary that will be made in the distant future. Annulus features collaborations with Hidekazu Sakamoto, Seth Graham, and LXV.

Koeosaeme is Ryu Yoshizawa. From 2004, he has been a member of the sound artists group “OFFICE INTENZIO” under Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi. In addition, he is in charge of live event backup support and recordings for Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Kyoka and many others. He also produces music commercially for Lotte and Square Enix.

212202115:46 feat. Seth Graham

Made this track for the 6th year celebration comp of @s-vn, they wanted a track to fit in the theme of the album - music for waiting in line for things. check it out on their bandcamp and get <3
https://sovnrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-queuing-at-the-supermarket

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The bouncing beats and complex rhythms of footwork meets the soulful melodies of traditional Japanese minyo in J/P/N, the latest album from Kyoto-based artist KASAI.

Following on from his 2021 album “OWN ℃” which was released under his previous alias Jap Kasai, KASAI expands his maximalist electronic sound, centring his vocals
and finding new and unexpected rhythms as footwork is reimagined through a warped, otherworldly lens.

The album’s fourth track, 唄ヨォー, is a hypnotic dirge, with KASAI’s undulating minyo vocals wrapping themselves around echoing drums, as footwork beats skitter mischievously into a crescendo. On the final track, 藪梅, KASAI expands into incorporating a 4/4 club beat in between his louche vocals, making a lush, danceable track with his idiosyncratic charm turned all the way up.

A bubbling internal network of logic propels J/P/N forward. Reflecting on the album title, KASAI says: “’J/P/N’ is the country code of Japan. At the same time, I give it another meaning. It is ‘Jimoto Private Network’. ‘Jimoto (地元)’ means region (or local) in English. So, it means ‘Inter-regional Private Network.’”
J/P/N was made alongside raising his child and running a small farm – and playing gigs in a fish market. Filled with bursts and drifts of his own luminous, insectoid electronic sounds, the irrepressible album feels as richly textured and complex as the natural world and its inter-connected inhabitants.

“Japanese folk songs were originally rooted in different regions of Japan,” KASAI explains. “Minyo was spread by private networks of people. Minyo also travelled to other regions as goods were distributed through trade and other means. Cool voices, rhythms, breaks, and lyrics influenced other regions’ songs.”
“In this way, minyo influenced each other, changed its form, and was sung in many different places by many different people. I wanted to express the dynamic aspect of minyo before it was confined to the geography of a country.” 

About KASAI:
Born in Kyoto, Daisuke Iijima has been making music since 2015. He runs the cassette label hoge tapes.

J/P/N

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KASAI -  唄ヨォー

@mondoriviera is the moniker of Ravenna-based musician and visual artist Lorenzo Camera. Producing music at the crossroad between late-night z-series horror movie soundtracks, 2d modular synthesis digital soundscapes and new-school plunderphonics, after his debut “Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio” on New Weird Italian label Riforma, and the folk-vaporwave soundtrack for videogame Nott Longa on Artetetra, Mondoriviera is back with 10 new tracks jumping from the golden era of glossy horror VHS to new millennium goblin muzak and sonic delusions.

At the threshold between early 2000s music videos nostalgia, childhood memories and digital drifts, the second album by Lorenzo Camera, aka mondoriviera, explores the sentimental impacts of contemporary archetypes in our imagery with the help of post-vaporwave sounds. [The life of] “Frenton Cantolay", a parody of 'Frampton Comes Alive', the 1976 pop record, is a sonic journey into a contemporary Olympus inhabited by spiritually-corrupted zombies. In this parallel world, zombie celebrities, only apparently outside the afflictions of life, live at the mercy of Fortune, praying to the graces of the Goddess who exists above all world's logic.

Yet every success reveals the arbitrariness of their path; Fortune brutally elevates people to heaven only to eat their heads alive, while the mass keeps working, alienated, just to sustain their futile concatenation of needs. A timeless hero, the zombie Frenton Cantolay attempts to rise from mere worker to superstar, chasing unattainable dreams without accepting that we are not the same in this Olympus.

Echoing pastiches of pastiches of theories and pieces of lost media, mondoriviera's album reflects on the afterlife of 2000s musical archetypes and at the same time tries to open up alternative futures. A glitching pornography of our mediatic times, the zombie is a character that questions our deepest desires and social constructs. Is there an alternative?

The scratchy, phantasmagoric sounds of Mondoriviera create a sense of alienation and possibility. After the psychedelia and Creepshow's imagery already present in Lorenzo's debut record 'Il Tempio degli Uomini Granchio', this album represents a further hallucination, a soundscape for an unrealised deranged metaphysical videoclip, a crooked ballad for a love yet to come. 
credits
releases June 30, 2023

Composed, produced and mastered by Lorenzo Camera
Artwork by Riccardo Redeghieri - Baiu Baiu
Liner notes - Alice Minervini

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Mondoriviera - Compax

Ditto Linger Around Installation Mix

Out now >> https://theyouthlabel.bandcamp.com/album/fumu-skinned-yov7c

A1 - Untitled
A2 - Untitled 
B1 - Untitled
B2 - Untitled

FUMU - Skinned - YOV7C - YOUTH (Clips)

https://nadarecs.bandcamp.com/album/asymmetry

Asymmetry is the result of an ecosystem created and nourished by the artist.

released February 5, 2021

Music and Artwork by Sebastian Camens
Remixes by {arsonist} and Forces
Mastered by Calum Gunn

212202115:46 feat. Seth Graham

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