Meitei - Kofu (LP Re-press)

CD in stockLP re-press release date: 6/7/2024Genre: Japanese folk, Electronic, AmbientLP limited edition of 500 with words in Japanese and English from Meitei and design by KITCHEN. LABEL founder Ricks Ang. Full color print on premium matte paper.CD limited edition of 500 in a die-cut outer case,with words in Japanese and English from Meitei and design by KITCHEN. LABEL founder Ricks Ang. Full color print on premium matt paper. This record is mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama in Tokyo, Japan.“We welcome you to Japan, a Japan that is unseen.”It began with Kwaidan, a simmering study on the lost art of Japanese ghost story-telling. Then there was Komachi, baptized in the earthly winds and static that define its comforting sonics.On Kofū, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of art forms and aesthetics as a provocation — or, as fashioned in the album’s subtitle, a “satire of old Japanese aesthetics”. Each entry’s distinct flavour has earn