Tokyo
Track: Sydney born Tokyo resident Joey Sachi returns with the gorgeous, shimmering ‘7 Seconds’ – a collaboration with producer AKINAT.
Joey Sachi impressed us greatly with her first two singles ‘Fractured‘ and ‘Reverie‘ and she has returned with a bang with her new single ‘7 Seconds’, a collaboration with Sydney producer AKINAT. ‘7 Seconds’ begins with enigmatic spoken dialogue over haunting synths before Sachi’s ethereal vocals softly glide across the surface like a silken veil …
Track: Joey Sachi returns with another ethereal delight in the delicate ‘Reverie’.
We were incredibly honoured to premiere the stunning debut single ‘Fractured’ of Tokyo-based Sydney artist Joey Sachi last year, and she has followed this up with a new single, ‘Reverie,’ which proves without doubt that this is an artist that has a brilliant career ahead. ‘Reverie’ floats in the skies: celestial and majestic instrumentation dapples …
Premiere: Tokyo-based Sydney artist Joey Sachi unveils stunning single ‘Fractured’: an ethereal and immersive debut.
We are extremely honoured to present an exclusive listen to the stunning debut ‘Fractured’ from Tokyo-based Sydney artist Joey Sachi. ‘Fractured’ is a delicate and ethereal track that seems to float in the skies, hovering high and fragile with a glowing, radiant beauty. Sachi’s glorious vocals are to the fore, making their way above a …
Album Review: aus -‘Everis’: a serene and subtle post-classical work of distinction from the illusive Japanese composer.
Sometimes an album just sneaks up on you. Tokyo musician Yasuhiko Fukuzono maybe prolific as a producer, sound artist and curator of the renowned electronic music label FLAU but his solo releases in the guise of aus are rare. Sure there was the pan-global richness of the ‘Until Then’ twelve inch in February this year …
Album Review: Flash Amazonas – Uva-Uva : fizzing, physical pop-art, art-pop.
Somehow the art pop partnership that is Flash Amazonas manages to fizz on the same wavelength although they admit to taking a leftfield approach to creating their very own avant soundscape. Since meeting at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2015 Madrid based alt-pop purveyor Julian Mayorga and Japanese producer/instrumentalist Ryota Miyake has gradually morphed …
Track/Video: Art pop partners Flash Amazonas release surf punk agitator ‘Ululo’, ahead of their ‘uva-uva’ album
Convention doesn’t extend to the art pop mission of Flash Amazonas. The loose partnership between Madrid based alt-pop purveyor Julian Mayorga and Japanese producer/instrumentalist Ryota Miyake has gradually morphed into band form since their encounters at the Red Bull Music Academy in 2015. Exchanging wonky WAVS and sketchy CD-Rs before returning to their respective homes …
Album review: UNKNOWN ME – ‘BISHINTAI’: a delightful, candy-coloured ambient trip
BISHINTAI is a delightful album, candy-colour bright, beamed from some offworld where fantastic cuboid furniture and hanging egg chairs are the norm; it will add a little brain-clearing wasabi to the most humdrum and dun day. If you’ve ever swooned for the Sushi 3003 and 4004 compilations; for Air at their most “Sexy Boy” cosmic and and most especially definitely, the bright retro-futurism of The Gentle People – then boy, is this album ever for you
Track: UNKNOWN ME’s ‘Open The Sense’ is a rainbow ambient bonbon
YOU QUITE possibly haven’t come across UNKNOWN ME, a Japanese collective with a very particularly glimmering, space-age approach to the the business of ambience; in fact, if their moniker is anything to go by, maybe even they haven’t. But if trippy electronic sound is your bag, and it oughta be, then perhaps now is an …
PREMIERE: Demsky – ‘Cold Coffee’: a chilled drink and loose-limbed, ambient downbeat
IT’S BEEN a proper learning curve: I mean, we’ve all had to find our own ways of dealing with … this, haven’t we? Whatever gets you through. Personally I’ve got friends who’ve deep-dived into utter vinyl addiction; who’ve really got into 5k running, or taken up painting for the very first time; who’ve planted out …
Say Psych: Album Review: Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
Masana is a fictional word created by Kikagaku Moyo to express a utopian feeling, an existence where everything can interact harmoniously and offer inspiration and understanding. The fourth LP from the band, Masana Temples, radiates this vision, architecting a vibrating world that isn’t confined to the known limits of what came before it. Kikagaku Moyo have …