{"product_id":"asa-tone-mutualkind-lp","title":"Asa Tone - Mutualkind (LP)","description":"\u003cp\u003eJakarta x NYC’s charming Asa Tone trio chase their Ariel Kalma jams with a beatific bouquet of electronica-meets-gamelan delicacies, surely recalling their near namesake Asa-Chang \u0026 Junray’s Y2K classic ‘Hana’ as much as Visible Cloaks in their play of feathered rhythmelody, hyaline synths and lathered vox, benefitting from Tristan Arp’s filigree production.\n\n“Music From Memory presents ‘Mutualkind’, by Asa Tone, the collaborative project of Melati ESP, Tristan Arp and Kaazi. Written between Indonesia, Mexico City, Berlin and New York, the record unfolds through a process of continual exchange, where distance itself becomes part of the group’s music formation.\n\nAt the centre of the album is the idea of a shared language, formed across differences in geography, experience and musical approach. One such process explores Tristan’s electronic hand percussion triggering fragments of Melati’s voice in real time, while a library of spoken words and phonemes are reshaped through chance-based rhythmic processes. Voice becomes percussion, rhythm becomes melody, and the lines between individual contributions begin to dissolve.\n\nSome pieces, including ‘Water Talk’ and ‘Second Language’, were recorded live in a single take, while others were assembled gradually through remote exchange. During the final sessions in Indonesia, Balinese percussionist Putu Septa contributed kendang to two tracks, bringing the instrument into dialogue with modular synthesis, FM textures, electronic drums, MIDI wind instruments and Melati’s shifting vocal forms.\n\nSounds are slowed, stuttered and reorganised, reflecting a world shaped by illusory borders, vanishing landscapes and glitching ecosystems. Yet the album remains rooted in the act of tending to something shared: a musical field built through listening, improvisation and repeated moments of reunion.\n\n‘Mutualkind’ seeks to blur boundaries without erasing the identities that meet across them, providing a space in which voice and instrument, self and other, separation and togetherness can briefly exist at once.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 472px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1698675698\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=333333\/artwork=none\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/asatone.bandcamp.com\/album\/mutualkind\"\u003eMutualkind Asa Tone\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e","brand":"Music From Memory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50017679606019,"sku":"MFM086","price":4736.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0285\/1694\/1956\/files\/a3094162025_10.jpg?v=1793066350","url":"https:\/\/meditations.jp\/en\/products\/asa-tone-mutualkind-lp","provider":"Meditations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}