for yourself

tosyachai - dreams

tosyachai

tosyachai - in the mountains

tosyachai - meet

tosyachai - spring

tosyachai - stars

tosyachai - across

Richard Rudd, Recorded live at the Seven Sacred Seals Cortes Island Retreat
Featuring soundtrack by Elijah Ray - http://www.elijahraymusic.com/

Seven Sacred Seals Retreat - 2015

Emanation of Seventh Seal Meditation (feat. music by Elijah Ray)

"Hakana" is an ambient collaboration between modular artist Yumi Iwaki (Tokyo/LA) and koto/modular artist Kasson Crooker (Seattle).  The two met at Synthplex in LA where they both performed and agreed that a fusing of their unique styles would beget something wonderful.  Yumi first created lush beds of synths and processed samples, with Kasson then performing the traditional Japanese koto heavily processed through modulars. Yumi's spoken word poetry blends the idea of 果てない (hatenai / endless) with 儚い (hakanai / fleeting)  ~ please enjoy our new song!

Hakana (Yumi Iwaki & Kasson Crooker)

Operatica is the third instalment of the ongoing project Operating Manual for Floating in Space.

The third act was a collaboration between the audience, who were instructed to enact a singing choir, and the performer who vocally improvised in search of harmony with the audience.

Live recorded on December 6, 2019 during Mood Ring at Roodkapje.
www.operatingmanualforfloatingin.space

Operatica (feat. the audience) (Live at Roodkapje, December 6, 2019)

‘Emboss Star’ is the new album by Kochi-born, Kyoto-based artist Kazumichi Komatsu, the first to be released under his own name following a prolific run of material as Madegg @madegg .

Kazumichi Komatsu - Emory

UNKNOWN ME "Bishintai" LP (NNF360)
Not Not Fun (https://soundcloud.com/not-not-fun-1) / 2021

releases April 30, 2021

PRE-ORDER:
https://unknownme.bandcamp.com/album/bishintai
https://midheaven.com/item/bishintai-by-unknown-me

やけのはら、P-RUFF、H.TAKAHASHIの作曲担当3人と、グラフィック・デザインおよび映像担当の大澤悠大によって構成される4人組アンビエント・ユニット「UNKNOWN ME」が、4作目となる待望の1st LP "BISHINTAI"を、米LAの老舗インディー・レーベル「Not Not Fun」からリリース。

UNKNOWN MEはこれまでに3作品をリリースしており、2017年には、亜熱帯をテーマにした作品「subtropics」が、英国「FACT Magazine」の注目作に選ばれた。また、アンビエント・リバイバルのキー・パーソン「ジジ・マシン」の来日公演や、電子音楽×デジタルアートの世界的な祭典「MUTEK」にも出演している。

このアルバムは、電子頭脳のガイドと共に旅をする都市生活者のための環境音楽であり、心と体の未知の美しさを探求するイマジネイティブ・サウンドスケープとなっている。
ニューエイジ、バレアリック、電子音楽といった様々な要素を内包した、多彩な曲調のアンビエント・メディテーションは、神聖な不思議さを持って蜃気楼と共に揺らめき、光り輝く。

聴きやすくも深遠な、繰り返しのリスニングにも耐えうる完成度を誇るこのアルバムには、素晴らしいゲスト・ミュージシャンとのコラボレーションも収録されている。
電子音で、世界的に活躍するトラックメイカー「食品まつり」、伝説の奇才「ジム・オルーク」が参加。
また、片想い、ザ・なつやすみバンド、うつくしきひかり、といったバンドのメンバーとしても知られる変幻自在のマルチ・プレイヤー「MC.sirafu」がスティールパンで、同じく、ザ・なつやすみバンド、うつくしきひかりのメンバー「中川理沙」がハーモニック・コーラスで桃源郷の彩りを添える。
未知の惑星で撮影したかのような幻想的なアーティスト写真は、気鋭の写真家「Ichisei Hiramatsu」が撮影している。

The inaugural LP by Tokyo Metropolis electronica entity UNKNOWN ME, Bishintai, is a sublime synthetic suite of cosmic wellness transmissions exploring “the unknown beauty of your mind and body,” appropriately named for a kanji compound meaning “beauty, mind, body.” Crafted with software, synthesizer, steel drum, rhythm boxes, and robotic voice by the core quartet of Yakenohara, P-RUFF, H. Takahashi, and Osawa Yudai, the album unfolds like a holographic guided meditation, soothing but cybernetic, framed by subways and sky malls. Latticework electronics flicker with texture, glitch, wobble, and mirage, themed around sensory perception and body parts.

A diverse cast of collaborators assist in actualizing the collection's uniquely urban expression of new age ambient, from psychedelic footwork riddler foodman to multi-instrumentalist institution Jim O'Rourke to Japanese underground shape-shifters MC.Sirafu and Lisa Nakagawa. Although the group cites a therapeutic muse (“made for the maintenance of the minds of city dwellers”), Bishintai shimmers with an alien strangeness, too, like decentralized relaxation systems obeying sentient circuits. This is music of utopia and nowhere, channeling worlds within worlds, birthed from a sonic ethos as simple as it is sacred: “in pursuit of beautiful tones.”

Side-A
01 Beauty, Mind and Body #1
02 Open The Sense
03 Gaze On Your Palm
04 Breathing Wave (with foodman) 
05 Have a Noble Meal (with Jim O'Rourke)
06 Moisture Of View (with MC.sirafu)

Side-B
07 Beauty, Mind and Body #2 
08 Isometrics 
09 Can You Hear a New World
10 Treadmill (with Lisa Nakagawa) 
11 Aroma Oxygen
12 Beauty, Mind and Body #3



Composed ：YAKENOHARA（01～07,09～12）,P-RUFF（01～03,05～09,11,12）,H.TAKAHASHI（02,04,08,10）
04 : Additional Sound By foodman
05 : Additional Sound By Jim O'Rourke
06 : Steelpan,Pianica By MC.sirafu
10 : Chorus By Lisa Nakagawa

Recorded : December 2016 ～ February 2020 
Mixed : YAKENOHARA (01～04,06,07,09,10,12), P-RUFF (05,08,11)
Mastering : YAKENOHARA

tosyachai - in the mountains

Tosya Chaikina