A Viagem Vai a Meio

Homem Lirio

I came to find you but you were still asleep. I returned in an hour, no one was there.

Burning Scilla

Gently Morning

Love Will Fade

A piece from the album From Dust to Stars by Minazuki.
Performed by Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough, and Hitoshi Kojo

In the rain-laden air of June,
the three presences touch for a moment,
and the sounds layered across years rise with a quiet shimmer.

The resonance of wood, the tremor of strings, the drift of air,
the subtle grain of overtones and object-sounds—
each keeps its own breath, yet together they form a single current
that gently carries the differing names and moods of rain.

The album will be released in late November 2025 on omnimemento.

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水鳴月のアルバム『塵から星へ』より。
演奏：アンドリュー・チョーク、ジョナサン・コルクロー、ヒトシ・コジョウ

雨を孕んだ六月の空気の中、
三人の気配がふと交わり、
時を越えて重ねられた響きが、静かな光を帯びて立ちのぼる。

木の響き、弦の揺らぎ、空気の層、倍音と物音の余白。
それらは三者それぞれの呼吸を保ちながら、
ひとつの流れとなって、異なる雨の名をそっと運んでくる。

アルバムは2025年11月末、omnimementoより。

Thaw 雪解雨

A piece from the album From Dust to Stars by Minazuki.
Performed by Andrew Chalk, Jonathan Coleclough, and Hitoshi Kojo

In the rain-laden air of June,
the three presences touch for a moment,
and the sounds layered across years rise with a quiet shimmer.

The resonance of wood, the tremor of strings, the drift of air,
the subtle grain of overtones and object-sounds—
each keeps its own breath, yet together they form a single current
that gently carries the differing names and moods of rain.

The album will be released in late November 2025 on omnimemento.

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水鳴月のアルバム『塵から星へ』より。
演奏：アンドリュー・チョーク、ジョナサン・コルクロー、ヒトシ・コジョウ

雨を孕んだ六月の空気の中、
三人の気配がふと交わり、
時を越えて重ねられた響きが、静かな光を帯びて立ちのぼる。

木の響き、弦の揺らぎ、空気の層、倍音と物音の余白。
それらは三者それぞれの呼吸を保ちながら、
ひとつの流れとなって、異なる雨の名をそっと運んでくる。

アルバムは2025年11月末、omnimementoより。


Drizzle 翠雨

Based on a skaldic poem by Sigvatr Þórðarson (995–1045)

Austrfararvísur 11

A folk tune from Seljord, Telemark, Norway. Lyrics by Jørund Telnes (1845-1892) about the beautiful Guro Heddelid, based on a 14th century legend.

Guro rid til ottesong

A dirty little ditty, poetic in it's own way. 

Ullensakervisa

1. Bonny at Morn - Bob Fox
2. Rosemary Lane - John Molineux
3. Deep Water - Maddy Prior
4. Stone Circle - Third Ear Band
5. Dives and Lazarus - Nick Hart
6. Orfeo - Archie Fisher
7. Lough Erne Shore - Paddy Tunney
8. Lord Randall - Martin Carthy
9. Madam I'm a Darling - Frank Harte
10. Miles Weatherhill - Nic Jones
11. Room for Company - Ewan MacColl
12. Lord Bateman - Ed Rennie
13. Earl Richard - Tim Hart & Maddy Prior
14. Jim Jones - John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris

Bright tonic gale // 12.5.25

Bexx and I enjoyed putting this track together using a new instrument that uses your voice to create sounds. I love the full moon so this is a song lamenting the full moon. 

Full Moon waiting in an empty sky

Based in Brussels, omnimemento publishes music, field recordings, photography, and other artistic projects that probe the limits of the human Umwelt, explore humans as part of the wider natural world including the cosmos, and attend to the subtle voices of nature alive beyond human activity.  
While highlighting Hitoshi Kojo’s projects, the label presents works developed in collaboration and ongoing experimentation, often released in Kojo’s handmade packages.

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ブリュッセルを拠点とする omnimemento は、音楽やフィールド録音、写真、その他の芸術プロジェクトを通じて、人間の環世界の限界に問いかけ、宇宙を含む自然の一部としての人間の在り方を探求し、そして人の営みを超えて息づく自然のささやきに耳を澄ませます。  
創設者コジョウ・ヒトシのプロジェクトに焦点を当てつつ、協力者との共同制作や継続的な実験の成果を幅広く紹介し、出版物はしばしばコジョウのハンドメイドパッケージで届けられます。

Origami Arktika is one of Norway’s best kept secrets. They serve a mutated folk music, rooted in the county of Telemark, interspaced with drones, noise, electronica and undefinable elements. They mix the archaic with the modern. Paper folding with frozen fingers. OA moves along the axis of time by using Old Norwegian folk songs and folklore, combined with modern inspiration and technology. OA is a knotty time machine, hotwired by haystack-poles and pitchforks, glued together with cow dung, old snippets of song, unheard drones and tones. They flow over the internal wastelands and drill moth holes in time.

The result is some kind of mystical folk music, brimming with smoldering desperation, a slow burning existential angst, from closed, incestuous valleys where the fear of unfamiliar genes have ruled for centuries. The music on this new album is dim, dark and melancholy. Some tracks bear witness to a sacral, droning organ. The associations leap towards damp ecstasy in small chapels, deep in narrow valleys where meaningless rituals and prayers tempt weary souls with promises of a better after life. Folk beliefs, Pagan beliefs, Christian beliefs – the unintelligible has led a life in close proximity to the shallow waters of reason and perception permeating our times, breeding models of understanding for an unfamiliar and seemingly meaningless existence.

Behind vocalist Rune Flaten, there are seven most accomplished and original musicians whom seem to make deceptively little music. But the sum of all the smaller or larger elements of the music enter into a higher unity and the result is a unique musical landscape. It can sometimes appear as a chaotic pile of pixels, but when shook together they create an image of the Sea Serpent slowly emerging from the Seljord lake. OA has an organic sound, almost like the ecosystems in the mountainsides of Telemark. The untamed undergrowth is bountiful with details, sounds, tones – it all melts into a unity which will not be easily deciphered. 


Throughlines is a surrender to the associations we hear, not the derivations we trace. A feeling not a knowing 〰️

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