Embrase

[ totokoko 011 ] Ryan Cohen - Under the Lilac Sky

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track list

01 Transmissions
02 Night Dancing at the End of Time
03 Wintersleep 
04 July Stars
05 Skywriting
06 Picture You by the Sea
07 You Are What You Love

[ totokoko 011 ] Ryan Cohen - Picture You by the Sea

Summer Weeds

music diary. Rec date12/03
mix date12/14

thanks! listen

eskimo

Never Leave

LoFi music carries warmth within its imperfections. The rough noise and wavering rhythm gently put the mind at ease. Like an old cassette tape, it lets you feel true emotions through its flaws.

00021_Low Fidelity

sound memo 33 - Break in the parking -

Jn3d

[ totokoko 056 ] Junya Nishimura - Clarity & Stimulus

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track list



01 Lily 
02 Daisy
03 Orchid   
04 Violet 
05 Iris 

Bonus track Curtain

Bouquet

[ totokoko 056 ] Junya Nishimura - Orchid

Thank you for always listening to my sound memo.
I released a new album “inacagraphy+”.
Please check it out！

『inacagraphy+』(April 14, 2017)

Japan : itunes.apple.com/jp/album/inacagraphy/id1222457355
World : itunes.apple.com/album/inacagraphy/id1222457355

01 roof snow
02 yukinohateharuurara
03 ame to asa
04 sukimakaze to mikansei na uta
05 garden curtain
06 sanpo
07 folktale
08 returning
09 gloomy snowday
10 tone
11 children grow up surely
12 paragate

sound memo 46

http://www.mu-nest.com/release-info.php?f=mnc013

“The world is getting smaller.”

“For the past 2 years, a lot of things have happened to me. I travelled to Kuala Lumpur in 2011. I travelled to Beijing in 2012. I take a peek at the world through the internet. The world sometimes spots me back. This planet is getting smaller and smaller. Still, I'm only a tiny being. I sometimes feel sad. Since 2011, a lot seems to have changed in my island country. At least I now think of death more often than before. And I now feel that an ordinary life is a happy one. Day by day my emotions sway back and forth like this. I feel like I know what the world is like, but at the same time, I know nothing about the world. I live inside this huge universe, and I'm only a tiny little being. This album is a record of me from 2011 to 2012.” – okamotonoriaki.

2 years after his critically acclaimed debut album, “Telescope”, musician cum visual artist okamotonoriaki picked up where he left off, and back with his 2nd solo album - “A Little Planet”, a wonderfully melodic album that is almost diary-like, capturing the emotions about uncertainties, about happiness, and about exploring the new sides of life.

Beautiful piano notes, exquisite melody lines, layer after layer of masterfully crafted beat programming, those details that made up okamotonoriaki’s gorgeous debut album, continue to excel in this new album. Mellow field recordings, those tiny noises and delicate glitches that hover around, added further depth into his works, and the extensive use of the elements of beats further illustrates the movement of the emotions in the interaction with the daily life.

One of the highlights in this album, is the wonderful collaboration with Tokyo’s famed indie musician, Cokiyu. Her feathery whispering vocals gracefully instilled a new dimension into okamotonoriaki’s pop-ish electronica work. To add more diversity into the album, he also roped in his live performance acoustic guitarist, Takumi Nishinoya, to breeze some gentle fresh air into the electronic pieces, making his music even more accessible, and irresistible.

As an award-winning visual artist, okamotonoriaki produced 3 amazing music videos for the album, which are included in the DVD-R accompanying the album. The DVD-R also features another beautiful music video produced by Berlin visual artist, T.S. Wendelstein.

“A Little Planet” is skilfully mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features the wonderful design by Tokyo/Berlin-based design studio The Simple Society, with illustrations from Izumi Matsuhashi.

Welcome, to the little planet, of okamotonoriaki. 

Grab the CD here!

one day / okamotonoriaki (Fulltrack Download)

sound memo, field recording in Akita.

2nd Album「feel like, feel right」
1st Album「inacagraphy+」

sound memo 46

satohyoh