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Kumachan Seal: solo project of Japanese vocalist/keyboardist/songwriter Sairi Ojima, who has been playing in numerous indie bands, including Neco Nemuru, since her teens. She began her solo career in 2013, and released her first cassette in 2017. This EM Records release is her first CD/LP album, with all compositions by Ojima, who co-produced the album. Each of the eleven songs reveals beguiling layers of detailed and surprising sounds, with Ojima’s DIY sonic core embroidered by vibrant and colorful beats and guitar from EM artist Le Makeup and the quintessential ambient-pop synths and keyboards of fellow EM-er Takao. Le Makeup mixed ten of the eleven songs, with Takao mixing “China Sandwich”. The heart of Ojima’s musical identity is her clear, aqueous voice; apart from one instrumental, all the tracks here feature that mellifluous voice, but in an interesting twist, only half the songs have lyrics, with the remainder employing her wordless voice as melodic and textural elements. Although Kumachan Seal can be heard as a sort of bedroom pop filtered through ambient music and the new-age revival, listeners will note that the final two songs, “Atsumono” and “Tiny Cell”, are respectively a slightly skewed four-on-the-floor track and a lightly skanking Doo-wop-flavored confection, slightly reminiscent of the UK’s Brenda Ray.
This album, full of Ojima’s calm and cool observation of the world, is available on CD, LP and DL, and includes an English lyric sheet.
The soundtrack of the dark fantasy manga "Dorohedoro," which was adapted into an anime in 2020 and created a worldwide fanatic following, has been re-released!
Released by MHz in 2016 as an oversized 2-CD set, "DOROHEDORO Original soundtrack" was supervised by the author, Kyu Hayashida, and Yuta Umegaya of Murder Channel, and was acclaimed by fans of both sides as a cult classic that uncompromisingly achieved a fusion of manga and music. It was critically acclaimed by fans of both sides as a cult classic that uncompromisingly fused manga and music.
The album was sold out soon after its release and sold for more than 10 times its original price.
The participating artists on this album are "Shackleton," internationally acclaimed for his unique and spellbinding psychedelic tribal sound, "Ghengis," another name for Gorgonn, who also works as G36 with The Bug and develops a dystopian dub/sci-fi steppes sound, and "Ghengis," a Japanese artist who has been working with The Bug for the past several years.
Ghengis, a bassist and core member of Asian Dub Foundation, a band with many fans in Japan, Roly Porter, an electronic musician known as a member of Vex'd, a unit that was unique in the early dubstep scene, and Gorgonn's alias, G36 with The Bug. Roly Porter", "khost", an industrial doom band by Andy Swan and Damian Bennett, who have been active in numerous bands since the 80's, and "Big Lad", a brain dance band by Wayne Adams, who is also active in PETBRICK with Iggor Cavalera. The top-notch artists such as "Big Lad (formerly known as Shitwife)," a brain-dance band, and "Ed Cox," who presents "clowncore," aka a mix of jungle and breakcore with gypsy music, have contributed special songs created after reading "Dorohedoro.
A unique dialogue between the electronic textures of Saint Abdullah with the live drums of Jason Nazary (Anteloper).
Saint Abdullah consists of Tehran-born brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh, who have been exploring a diverse palette of sounds over their releases to date, including collaborations with Eomac on Nicolas Jaar’s Other People label, and Model Home on Purple Tape Pedigree, as well as their own duo album on Important Records.
Jason Nazary is a drummer and composer from Atlanta and based in Brooklyn. Fascinated by the intersection of acoustic and electronic music, Jason has been a force in New York's creative music scene for over a decade. As well as his own solo work he also co-leads a number of ensembles, among them the dystopian electro noise duo Clebs with singer Emilie Weibel, and until recently Anteloper (International Anthem), an improvising modular beat shredding duo with the much-missed Jaimie Branch.