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Subsonic Eye - "Brace"

End song in Sam's 'Dear Vivek' vid :)

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Back to Reality

SPRINT

Thunderstruck

(Egg Modern)

(Egg Modern) (Edit)

Another Leaf

Life Exploder

My Smile Has Wandered Off Alone

Samba Saudade (A Fotografía)

Landscape in Asleep (FULL Album)

'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.

submarine

KITCHEN. LABEL is proud to present Jewels, the debut album from Tokyo-based composer Ryuuta Takaki, emerging from a new chapter in the city’s alternative wave. His music opens realms of mysticism, memory, and imagination, unfolding like radiant mosaics that echo symbolic traditions, Eastern esotericism, and a neo-Orientalist dreamworld. Takaki shapes music that moves between sacred stillness and ornate intensity. Though his creative path once passed through experimental hip hop and electronica, he has since dissolved into a borderless language that feels timeless and unbound. Jewels stands as ambient music presented not just as sound, but as an object of weight, mystery, and sensuality.

Jewels draws its initial spark from the perfumed visions of Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau and the Kegon (Huayan) cosmology, which sees the universe as a vast net of interrelations where radiant jewels shimmer at every intersection. Takaki translates this philosophy into music, building a work that reveals how the smallest resonance can reflect the entire whole.

It begins with “Chrysalis”, a fragile awakening where tones drift like wings opening in first light, before spiraling into the kaleidoscopic “Funnel and Infinite Reflections.” “Kegon” follows as a conceptual anchor, a meditation on fractal harmony where tones layer into infinite patterns that echo the Buddhist vision of interconnectedness. The title track, “Jewels,” shimmers with solemn clarity, glinting and fading like starlight across water. Later, in “Sunken Cathedral,” Takaki submerges the listener into an aquatic reverie where sacred and profane dissolve into one. “Gilded Veins” pulses with lustrous textures, like living currents coursing through stone, before the closing “Celestial Tuning” offers a shimmering epilogue, as if suspended over valleys of drifting clouds, opening onto a horizon of distant citadels.

Beyond its unfolding narrative arc, musically, Takaki’s work at moments suggests the dreamlike, kaleidoscopic qualities of Susumu Yokota meeting a Narada-esque new age landscape. Conceptually, his exploration resonates with Jon Hassell’s “Fourth World” vision, dissolving cultural boundaries of East and West into a single continuum, though always expressed through his own intimate and ornamental language.

Jewels reveals itself as a cosmology in miniature: a living network of harmonies, reflection, and becoming. In Takaki’s vision, every sound becomes a jewel — radiant, infinite, and alive — turning the album into a mandala of sound where resonance and reflection unfold without end.
The album will be released on 24 October on Compact Disc and digital formats, with mastering by Chihei Hatakeyama.



Ryuuta Takaki - Jewels (Jewels)

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From Pianos Become the Teeth's full length album "Blame & Aging" available everywhere on vinyl, CD, and digitally November 1, 2011 on Topshelf Records.

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