Description
Hailing from the seaside communities surrounding Enoshima, a small island located 50 km southwest of Tokyo, Maya Ongaku is a ragtag collective of local musicians whose brand of earthy psychedelia transcends widely beyond the roots of their inner souls. The name derives not from any kind of ancient civilization, but rather a neologism defined as the imagined view outside ones field of vision.The bandcurrently a trio of Tsutomu Sonoda, Ryota Takano, and Shoei Ikedafinds sanctuary at the Ace General Store, a beachy vintage shop and salon-like space just hidden from sight from the bustling, touristy riverside Subana Street. Between discussions on music and art, curating the vinyl section and manning the register, and chatting up with locals young and old, the members find time to jam and record their spontaneous ideas in the studio tucked away in the back.
“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 weve been using synths and drum machinesjamming along with machines so to speakto freely rearrange the songs from our debut album. That experience is what motivated us to make this EP. We are reaching a point where our lives are at the mercy of electronics. With the development of new technologies like AI, its 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. via Label
Label:Bayon, Guruguru Brain
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, EP, Limited Edition, Clear
Released:2024
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Experimental, Folk
File under: Japanese Electronic
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