cover art for Flowers - by Asuna

Asuna

Flowers

ML22 CD
now    04.28.09

“how are you? I’m asuna.” such a simple thought can say more then an essay on asuna.
but let me try anyways. asuna is from nagoya japan originally. now lives in ishikawa, away from the hussle and noise of the cities of japan. since 1999 he has been making experimental music, when he first fell in love with the reed organ. since then he has released CDs for such labels as Lucky Kitchen, Apestaartje, Autumn Records, and/OAR, Spekk, and Power Shovel Audio etc. now music related is very happy to releases his CD “flowers”. composed of songs about flowers. fields recordings, cellphone beeps, ambient drones, and lo-fi pop styles meet in asuna’s one of a kind style.
flowers starts with digital static, and cut and chopped toy drum machine beats. an invasion of modern life before smoothing out into a trip through the warm side, and escapist dreams of the small town japan and the country. the digital attacks, much like the blaring streets of modern japan, now gone. it’s field trip through the parks, and country with asuna as your tour guide.

“”An oddly pretty and strangely inviting album; sort of spooky, but in a way that a childhood memory can be spooky. A record which feels almost unintentionally overheard.” - Ezekiel Honig

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“Asuna has previously released music on such esteemed imprints as Lucky Kitchen, Spekk, and/OAR and Apestaartje, and now this third album arrives via the Music Related label. Hailing from Nogoya, Japan, Asuna’s musical aesthetics might be regarded as comparable to the music of compatriots like Takeo Toyama, Aus or Cokiyu, also fitting in with the sort of miniaturised, melodic electronica releases we’ve come to expect from the Flau camp. Using found sounds, toy instruments and a variety of digital treatments these pieces range from slow-building song collages (’Rainy Garden’) to chaotic sample-based compositions like the field recording-based hip hop of ‘Courtyard In Junior High School’. There’s always a keen sense of fun and liveliness to these songs, and that even extends to the more penive music here: eleven minute micro-droner ‘Forget Me Not’ sounds like a Janek Schaefer composition made with the sound of fizzy drinks jostling alongside vinyl crackle. Lovely.” - boomkat.com

cover art for Flowers - by Asuna

Asuna

Flowers

ML22 CD
now    04.28.09
cover art for Songs Spun Simla - by Praveen & Benoît

Praveen & Benoît

Songs Spun Simla

ML21 CD
out now    08.19.2008