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PINYON 004LP
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Spirals goes back to the roots of jazz, funk, and disco and brings elements of these music streams into house music. In the appearance of swing, jazz was originally a dance music genre, which later developed in many directions. Various other genres were born from it. Even electronic music streams like house belong to those genres. Bearing this in mind, Spirals connects different points in the history of these genres. Bringing this fusion to life, the MIMIKOTO Project works with electronic elements (analog synths, drum computers, electronic modulations) as well as acoustic instruments (saxophones, keys, trumpet, bass, drums and percussions). The MIMIKOTO Project was founded in 2019 by Fabio Kumori as a collective of musicians related to jazz, funk, soul, and electronic music, after a certain period of composing and playing as duo, trio and quartet. One of the central goals of the MIMIKOTO Project is to include people from different backgrounds -- to be inclusive regarding the music and the musicians themselves. May the sound of Spirals be a social room in which everyone is invited to participate, and may this idea be spread everywhere where it will be played.
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PINYON 003LP
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Like the Mimikoto Project's previous albums, also Blackbird's Philosophy can be described as a symbiosis of jazz with electronic music and other styles of groovy stuff. On this album the electronic elements melt into the acoustic sounds and rhythms on a quite subtle way, while the acoustic patterns partially adopt styles of electronic music reminding of deep house, ambient, and Detroit house. Jazzy Rhodes, bass, drums, and sax solos performed by jazz-rooted musicians like Darius Blair, Uli Schiffelholz, Johannes Schwarting, and Justin Zitt, play a more important role than on former releases and bring nuances of funk, modal jazz, free jazz, and bebop to this album. With Fabio Kumori's string orchestral sound created with upright bass, effects and looper in the track "Notes From Kirishima", even elements reminding of classical music and atmospheres from soundtracks become a part of this album. These elements merge with rhythmic sound arpeggios of analog synths and vibraphone, which create a maybe unknown style of new music. On the last track of the album, namely on the track "Blackbird's Philosophy (Part II)", you hear the soulful and expressive voice of Noomi Mae Coleman, who joined the Mimikoto crew in 2020. The Mimikoto Project was founded in 2019 as a collective of musicians related to jazz, funk, soul, and electronic music, after a certain period of composing and playing as duo, trio and quartet.
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PINYON 001LP
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A unique nexus of electronic music and jazz. Fabio Kumori (drum machine, synth, fx, double bass) and Ü (tenor sax, fx) came together in several studio sessions and recorded the tracks for this album. Some of the tracks let you feel electronic grooves close to house music combined with atmospheres reminiscent of ambient music as well as the distinct nuances of Detroit techno. While on some tracks the tenor sax sounds pure and intensive, like in free jazz improvisations, on other tracks the sound of the sax is strongly modified by live fx that let it sound like electronic waves drifting through the endless space of the universe.
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