Komachi, by Meitei

Komachi

by Meitei

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Thou!MirrorWitch Perfect meditative ambience. Great for a rainy day, taking a relaxing nighttime bath, or just placing yourself in 16th century Japan in some gnarled forest by the river. Favorite track: Kawanabe Kyosai [Pt.I].

josephbellfans So dreamy! I listen to this every time I feel a bit overwhelmed with the world - it's like sonic meditation Favorite track: Chouchin.

Lyhinque Simply incredible. Spirits you away to a place both otherworldly and fantastical Favorite track: Chouchin.

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1.	Seto 01:53	buy track
2.	Ike 03:28	buy track
3.	Nami 03:56	buy track
4.	Sento [Pt.II] 03:00	buy track
5.	Kawanabe Kyosai [Pt.II] 04:07	buy track
6.	Chouchin 04:24	buy track
7.	Maboroshi 03:13	buy track
8.	Sento [Pt.I] 04:59	buy track
9.	Myo 01:45	buy track
10.	Kawanabe Kyosai [Pt.I] 08:44	buy track
11.	Shinkai 02:00	buy track
12.	Utano 04:15	buy track

about

â€œThings fade into obscurity when a populace has no interestâ€ - Meitei / å†¥ä¸

Meitei considers himself an old soul, often preoccupied with the customs and rituals of the past. Recently Meitei lost his beloved 99-year-old grandmother, a woman who he considered to be one of the last remaining people to have experience and understanding of traditional Japanese ambience. His music and art is driven by a desire to cast light on an era and aesthetic that he believes is drifting out of the collective Japanese consciousness with each passing generation, what he calls "the lost Japanese mood". He chose to dedicate Komachi to his late Grandmother.

â€œI want to revive the soul of Japan that still sleeps in the darknessâ€ - Meitei / å†¥ä¸

Haunting and delicate, distant and timeless, Komachi is awash with white noise, complex field recordings and the hypnotic sounds of flowing water. Though confidently contemporary, like a bucolic J-Dilla, Komachiâ€™s lineage can be traced back to the floating worlds of Ukiyo-e and Gagaku via the prism of 80s Japanese ambient pioneers, and 90s pastoral sample-based artists such as Susumu Yokota and Nobukazu Takemura.

Composed as individual sonic dioramas, each of the twelve tracks have been crafted to not only evoke feelings of nostalgia but to also explore the dichotomy of ancient and new in modern Japanese society. This pervasive narrative runs throughout, calling to mind the work of authors Yasunari Kawabata and Natsume Soseki, as well as the films of YasujirÅ Ozu and Hayao Miyazaki, artists similarly fascinated by the reflective tranquillity that permeated traditional Japanese domestic life.

The limited vinyl release, produced in collaboration with label and distributor SÃ©ance Centre, includes a super limited special edition complete with beautiful twelve-page booklet featuring a number of prints in the Ukiyo-e style, a traditional style of woodblock print that dates back to 17th century Japan. The images were chosen by Meitei to showcase the old style Japanese sentiments that form a core inspiration to his musical output.

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released March 15, 2019

All songs written and recorded by Meitei.
Mastering by Brandon Hocura.
Production and Distribution by SÃ©ance Centre.
Art direction by Jack Hardwicke, Meitei & MÃ©tron.
'Woman Admiring Plum Blossoms at Night'
Cover Artwork by Suzuki Harunobu.
Booklet translations by Craig Hatch

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