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Electronic Phantoms

by maya ongaku

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Gabriel9x One of my favorite 2024 albums. Iyo no Hito is electronic space rock, heavily echoing classic Floydian tones with big guitar lines at the end. Annoyo drive has cool eerie licks, ideal for nighttime driving. Love with Phantom is cool and laid back, like Japanese Yacht Rock. Meiso ongaku 1 and 2 have prog folk vibes and feeling like they are conjuring a monster from deep in the woods from Cthulhu Mythos. Meiso ongaku 3 feels possessed and like they have conjured said monster. Favorite track: Iyo no Hito.
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Lee Strubinger Such a remarkable record. And even more a remarkable band. Seriously, their live show is not to be missed. They swirl into a vortex unlike anything I’ve seen. Also, they’re the nicest dudes. They helped me out in Osaka during their Japan tour. Great band. Great show. Great humans. A forever fan right here.
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Adriana Ciccone I found out about this wonderful band and album via their KEXP recording. I'm so glad for that. This album is incredible and the band produce a lush, experimental sound with just the three of them. It's awesome.
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Ed What a wonderful surprise to come across this album and group. The Meiso Ongaku triple shot is just phenomenal. Can’t wait to see them live!
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1.
Iyo no Hito 06:14
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2.
Anoyo Drive 04:52
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3.
Love with Phantom 03:02
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4.
Meiso Ongaku 1 04:25
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5.
Meiso Ongaku 2 05:34
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6.
Meiso Ongaku 3 04:51
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about

Our new album is filled with a kind of sensibility that wasn't a part of our first one: a desire to get anyone who hears it to get up and dance.

We spent 2023 playing a good number of live shows, from touring and playing festivals throughout Europe and Japan. We are a band without a drummer, and we’ve been using synths and drum machines—jamming along with machines so to speak—to freely rearrange the songs from our debut album. That experience is what motivated us to make this EP.

Playing live in front of a crowd allowed our music to go through a gradual transmutation. It instilled us with the desire to make more people dance.

The title of the EP is Electronic Phantoms.

We are reaching a point where our lives are at the mercy of electronics. With the development of new technologies like AI, it’s becoming harder to distinguish between what is real and what is computer-generated. These circumstances can be likened to the appearance of a phantom.

The world of virtual reality can also be described as an electronic phantom.

What kind of music will result if we take a world lived in by spiritual beings and express it with something diametrically opposite, with sounds generated by machines? That is the main idea behind the creation of this EP.

To be deceived by machines, or to have our knowledge overtaken—those ideas don’t frighten us. Rather, we’d like to reach a level of understanding with machines. Through jamming along with them. Love isn’t born out of machines; it can only come from within our hearts.

Tsutomu Sonoda
August, 2024

credits

released August 30, 2024

1, Iyo no Hito

Tsutomu Sonoda
Vocal, Chorus, Electric Guitar, CasioTone, Juno-06, Djambe, Maracas, Triangle

Shoei Ikeda
Moog Grandmother, Hammond Organ, Bass Drum

Ryota Takano
Bass Guitar, Rhythm Machine (TR-8S)



2, Anoyo Drive

Tsutomu Sonoda
Vocal, Electric Guitar, CasioTone, Maracas, Hulusi, Breath

Shoei Ikeda
Moog Grandmother, Saxophone, Hammond Organ

Ryota Takano
Rhythm Machine (TR-8S), Moog Mother-32



3, Love with Phantom

Tsutomu Sonoda
Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Casio Tone, Moog Grandmother, Robot Voice

Shoei Ikeda
Moog Grandmother, Flute

Ryota Takano
Moog Mother-32, Rhythm Machine (TR-8S)



4, Meiso Ongaku

Tsutomu Sonoda
Maracas, Triangle, Poetry Reading

Shoei Ikeda
Casio Tone, Moog Grandmother, Flute, Rhodes Piano, Saxophone

Ryota Takano
Rhythm Machine (TR-8S), Swarsangam, Sleigh Bells, Rain Stick, Tingsha

Sei Wakka Ring & Sei D Red Special by Seiji Iida



All songs written & arranged by maya ongaku

All Lyrics written by Tsutomu Sonoda

Recording & Mix by Tsutomu Sonoda at Mother Sound Studio

Mastered by Soushi Mizuno at studio MASS

Artwork & Design by Tsutomu Sonoda

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