trésor

True Color, True Lie

Reason

A Sorrowful Heartland

supernowhere - "In The Field"

supernowhere - "Paper"

supernowhere - "Catch"

Conceived as a commissioned work for Japanese integrated art brand WARA, Hiroshima-based composer Meitei created SHITSURAI as music to embody the collective’s ideology centered around age-old Japanese traditions and sensibilities. Meitei, whose real name is Daisuke Fujita, and WARA’s artistic director Eri searched for a new dialog with sounds reflecting the Japanese aesthetics of 24 sekki that mark nature’s perpetual cycle of ever-changing seasons. Meitei’s entrancing ode to the 24 sekki expresses Japanese lyricism through minimal piano, environmental and electronic sounds. 

In Japan, each of the four seasons of the year is experienced in six phases and all have their own distinct characters. Unveiling a reverence for the Japanese passage of time, the 4-track EP explores the ebb and flow through the twenty-four seasons of Japan as nature awakens, blossoms, matures and settles into a slum from the beginning of spring (Risshun), the first day of summer (Rikka), the first day of autumn (Risshū) to the beginning of winter (Rittō). 

Symbolizing the Japanese concept of shitsurai (to arrange) with an emphasis on ma (the sound of silence), the compositions were designed as a collage of delicate piano sounds that the composer played, recorded and subsequently meticulously cut and rearranged. The piano serves as a metaphor for the artist’s individual existence in the shifting landscape of time throughout the record. With each passing season, surrounded by new environments and colors, various textures were drawn with subtle glitchy electronics embedded within natural sounds, gradually unfolding as the album unravels. Transient, sparse and boundless at once, for fifteen minutes, the four tracks cycle through small variations, the album paradoxically, expands with each listening loop: it’s one that can be listened to endlessly.

With this album, Meitei’s unique sound universe is observed from yet another new perspective, as the artist has demonstrated in prior albums. SHITSURAI exemplifies Meitei’s brilliance with motifs, minimalism and movement as he seeks to meet a new realm of sonic romanticism in his never-ending quest to reinterpret and recapture lost Japanese moods.

Meitei releases SHITSURAI at the beginning of spring, 4 February 2023, on all digital formats. Gen Tanabe mastered this record at Studio Camel House in Japan.

Meitei - Risshun (SHITSURAI, 2023)

I Heard Love Has No Limits

My home studio is located near a small forest. One day, I opened a window that I usually keep closed. As I spent time by the open window, the gentle autumn breeze flowed in, accompanied by the rustling of trees and the chirping of birds. Inspired by these sounds, I felt an irresistible urge to play the piano. When the beautiful sounds of nature blended with the notes from my piano, I felt a profound sense of happiness.
For a while, I was completely absorbed in the impromptu piano performance and the sounds from outside. Later, a strong desire arose within me to share this feeling of happiness with someone. So, I pressed the record button on my microphone and camera, capturing the sounds and scenes of this otherwise ordinary day.

sharing happiness 01

Continuum 1

Thinking about where I used to live and what life was like back then.

Rue des Bassins

Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles

Desert Mirage

Goose Fruits 41: Guest Mix maiteu
on datafruits.fm: https://datafruits.fm/shows/goose-fruits/episodes/goose-fruits-05252025 (Stream / DL Live Broadcast)

00:00:00 - 00:59:35 - Paul Manton Mix @paulmanton
00:59:35 - 02:00:10 - maiteu Guest Mix @maiteu-453301798

Tracklist:

@paulmanton:

Gruvis Malt - Invention #1
Rắn Cạp Đuôi - Bugs Life
Gruvis Malt - Invention #6
HHY & The Macumbas - Horror Vector
Ray Lynch - Tiny Geometries
Gruvis Malt - Invention #5
Gruvis Malt - Invention #2
Ervin Omsk - Gewieft wie die Koyoten
Gruvis Malt - Invention #3
Demonslayer - Đi Đi
Gruvis Malt - Invention #4
G.S. Sultan - pomello serape
Nammy Wams - Deu Me Bo
Gruvis Malt - Stop And Go All Ye Faithful
Cymbals - Glide (Yann Tomita Mix)
More Eaze - primordial ft. pamela santiago
Bloodz Boi; cat soup - daydreaming
Ojerime - I Know Now
Qendresa - Love Or Lust
Ojerime - Greasy


@maiteu-453301798:

luvis – 走馬灯で逢いましょう,
CHO CO PA CO CHO CO QUIN QUIN – 空とぶ東京,
Youandewan – Our Odyssey,
metome – Water Cycle,
matryoshka – Butterflysoup (Like Stars Were Flickering Out) Go-qualia Remix,
KAIRUI – 灯,
aus – Pool,
Pretty Patterns – FFFFFF (feat. vally.exe),
yanokami – 翼り空,
Dom Mino’ – Goodbye, Summer Rain -U.C edit–,
宇宙コンビニ – EverythingChanges,
aquoferne – Progress Paint,
rei harakami – owari no kisetsu,
omori – By Your Side.,
James Blake – Modern Soul,
Ryuichi Sakamoto, MC.Sniper – Undercoolded - Acoustica,
charlot – What is going on 'round you?,
Floating Points – Environments,
Bialystocks – Branches,
aus – Memories,
imoutoid – PART1,
kaede – それもきっとしあわせ

Goose Fruits 41: Guest Mix maiteu 5-17-2025

'Submarine' is taken from the debut album by herbal tea, 'Hear as the Mirror Echoes', out August 29, 2025 on @orindal and @golddayrecs

listen: album.link/kzxkqcz0fcmf6

Vinyl, cassette & digital download: herbaltea.bandcamp.com/album/hear-as…mirror-echoes

Official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuOWDWaWr_I

Lyrics:
I don't know why I'm walking
through these streets at night alone
when will my love be here
when will you come and save me?

I'm like a submarine
I'm looking through the periscope
nobody sees me
my eyes are only open for you
mind is barely open.

down in the soil
up in smoke
a huff of heavy fumes
trying not to think of then,
when she was always hiding.

I don't know why I'm walking
down this road
the 'ship has flown
soared out of the atmosphere
like you're already losing
mind, you're barely bruising
mind, you're barely losing
losing.

supernowhere - "In The Field"

Topshelf Records

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