FLAU news: Kumi Takahara's new single The Old Dreams
Noah play Wonderfruit Festival 2023, Kumi Takahara at Kanazawa 21
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Kumi Takahara - The Old Dreams
Tokyo-based violinist and multi-instrumentalist Kumi Takahara, follows up on the highly acclaimed debut album See-Through with a brand new single. Returning to her roots in contemporary music, The Old Dreams is an ethereal composition that brings to life dreams from Takahara's past, featuring memories and almost mythical visions like rooms filled with water and orange dolphins. Divided into three distinct sections, the piece beautifully conveys the people and emotions she encountered within these dreamscapes, combining strings and poetic readings to create a mesmerizing musical journey.
Kumi layers her own performance of the violin, viola, cello, and double bass, weaving a rich tapestry of sound that is vividly colored by her hushed strings and flagile voices. In the production process, she collaborates once more with Tape Loop Orchestra, one half of The Boats, on mixing. The mastering is meticulously handled by KASHIWA Daisuke, resulting in a three-dimensional sound that dives into deeper, more complex audio territories.
Furthermore, this single includes a remix by FLAU's head aus, which intricately dissects Kumi's strings. Using piano, samples and synthesizers, aus takes us on a journey that goes beyond the confines of the dream, weaving together various life moments into the track. The resulting remix delves deep into the artist's inner world, creating a powerful musical exploration.
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aus - Revise
Tokyo-born composer and producer aus, is set to release a special collection of remixes of his recent album ‘Everis’.
‘Revise’ features ten new, truly innovative reinterpretations from Li Yilei, Ocean Moon, John Beltran, Rebelski, Marucoporoporo, Red Snapper, Hanakiv, JQ, Grantby, and Patricia Wolf.
it’s nice to be reminded me of its abstract ambient joys with this impressionistic suite of remixes from a suitably adventurous bunch of artists. The motley musos have obviously relished the imaginative source material as well, using it as a catalyst to send the original sonics spiralling into all sorts of wondrous new forms. – The Slow Music Movement
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Kumi Takahara performs See-Through
Kumi Takahara plays See-through at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa.
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Cuushe - Butterfly Case
The album turned 10 years now. In the 2nd full length album Butterfly Case, you can see Cuushe’s moving graciously from her dreams into reality, expressing herself with delicate analog tape, distorted synths, drum machines, looped guitars and her signature feathery vocals. These astonishing songs allow us see a new vision, an imagination from Cuushe that we’ve never seen before.
Her uniquely beautiful voice, and the delicately beat-driven music that was masterfully produced in Butterfly Case, has undoubtedly unfolded a new exciting dimension in dream pop music.
PRETTIEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR – The FADER
Cuushe’s siren call glittering across this softly undulating fabricn – Dazed and Confused (album of the month)
She’s at her best, though, when her singing manages to break through the dreaminess and deliver a simple and direct emotion – Pitchfork
it’s the sort of thing you’d imagine playing over a dreamy Sofia Coppola montage of girls running through a field or Elle Fanning pirouetting on ice – NYLON Magazine
More sun gaze than shoe gaze, and more Washed Out than Cocteau Twins. Celestial, perfectly executed, mesmerizing. – Bandcamp
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