Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Indie. Also available on CD.
Our Overview.
The third album from London-based, Tokyo-born experimentalist and former frontman of cult psychedelic-punk group Screaming Tea Party Koichi Yamanoha offers more than a hint of the famous Grimm brothers’ twisted fairy-tale folklore to ‘Ginormous’. Recalling a childhood with Humpty Dumpty and Mother Goose by his side, his latest offering marks the next chapter in a trilogy of self-discovery; a compendium of sonically astute storytelling where nightmares and dreams meet via French y -y and Casio beats.
An outlet for his fragile, haunted, otherworldly forays into baroque folk, futurist lyricism and electro-acoustic oddities, stories have always shaped Koichi’s world. Whether channelling the wonder of nursery rhymes from his youth to megalophobic thoughts of monolithic objects, ‘Ginormous’ turns to the next page of Koichi’s sonic journey so far; its lyrics and melodies culled from the notes on his phone whilst travelling alone on trains across Europe.
Between shows with Cate Le Bon, Simon Finn, Dinosaur Jr, Thurston Moore, The Undertones, Green Man Festival and Edinburgh Fringe, each note offers a monumental moment in time from every passing experience of Koichi’s emotional world; such as his feelings upon seeing the imposing Yugoslavian monuments of World War II (Spomenik’), or hearing from his many friends made along the way. The album was recorded in his room at home and Total Refreshment Centre in North/East London, Koichi enlisted award-winning producer Marta Salogni (Bjork, The Orielles) and Capital K’s Kristian Craig Robinson.
Tracklisting: Ginormous (Feat. Paz Maddio) / In A Glass Jar (Feat. Paz Maddio) / Kyowa Amenohidesu / The Ghost Of Madame Legros (Feat. Laetitia Sadier) / Something In Your Way / We’ve Never Been This Far Before / We Will Meet Again, The Cleaner Said / Death & Scenery / Hey Graeme, Pass Me The Rotten Gun / Spomenik / Oh! Omen