Cornelius - Mellow Waves (2017)

https://twitter.com/PCTC259/status/857604611879784448

A little warmer.

I ordered this from cdjapan this morning w/o the preview, already know I want it and have been in a big mailorder phase anyhow

Apparently will be available via Warners Dist. in North America sooner or later, my local vendor told me. He also said the Cornelius/Penguin Cafe Orchestra RSD disc sold out in five mins. Bah.

would be surprising if iTunes and/or Amazon MP3 don't get it

I want that single so bad!

ME TOO.

I really wanna know what his new sound is, if he has one.

http://sp.wmg.jp/cornelius/ is awesome

The stuff he's done since Sensuous hasn't sounded notably different but I wouldn't surprised if he had something up his sleeve for this one. There must be some reason why he's putting out a new album after this long.

The good news is that the three songs he wrote for Metafive - "Don't Move", "Split Spirit", and "Chemical", are all incredible. He's definitely still on his game.

I really wouldn't mind if it sounded like a continuation of Point & Sensuous, but I feel the same way. The album art is also drastically different.

Have any of you heard it yet/

wish Matador would reissue Point on vinyl

he hasn't been doing stuff under his own name (excepting that weird NHK DESIGN AH thing a couple years back) but he's definitely been busy in the music scene. i really like the salyu x salyu stuff i've heard.

there's also Constellations of Music, which is basically CM5 but does contain a few original tracks on it (including two by salyu x salyu, one of which is a great cover of "Hammond Song"), plus a song that he did with The Bird and the Bee which sorta fell through the cracks. worth checking out I suppose.

still think "Split Spirit" is my favorite thing he's done in the last decade

Oh wow, I had no idea he did Design - Ah! Very familiar with that

is there a way to order the new album in vinyl in English?

Design was really cool. i really enjoy the animations they have with his music. it felt very much in the spirit of the Sensuous videos.

http://i.imgur.com/bC69ycR.jpg

no luck on ebay

both records are sold out on CD Japan. i can't believe i didn't buy it earlier.

Adam yes, did you go to the show in Tokyo?

no i wish. i have never been to Japan. one day...

https://www.discogs.com/Yumiko-Ohno-Music-For-Dance-Performance-The-Rainy-Table/release/6466045

what is this this looks amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=qjN4p9I4JHQ

she is from Buffalo Daughter

anything new from Takako Minekawa?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjN4p9I4JHQ

So, uh, has this surfaced yet? The single.

anything new from Takako Minekawa?

Yeah. Another new one with Takako Minekawa.

DAMN... I mean another one with Dustin Wong. It's wonderful.

https://thrilljockey.com/products/are-euphoria

It's killing me that I can't hear this. I can't fathom its absence form the net.

hahaha me too. I just want to hear a minute of it, to know what the sound is like :P I guess the fact that it's a 7" limited to 500 copies which (I imagine) sold almost exclusively in Japan will do it.

alas, where is What.CD when you need it ?

I resorted to translating a couple reviews on Amazon.co.jp, but the translations are incomprehensible, though seem positive.

it literally doesn't exist online as sound clip?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTqcB6WAqyq/

hero!

Sounds promising

yeah. mellow. and wavey!

oh yeah. yummy. gimme that tremelo!

dylannn <3 this is sounding lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr5f6hpYxmE

definitely sounds like the album title

pretty cool. not mindblowing but i like.

yeah its something that would've slotted into Sensuous though it feels a lot more developed than most of that album. video is amazing, of course.

Tracklist:
01 “If You’re Here”
02 “Sometime / Someplace”
03 “Dear Future Person”
04 “Surfing On A Mind Wave Pt 2″
05 “In A Dream”
06 “Helix / Spiral”
07 “Mellow Yellow Feel”
08 “The Spell Of A Vanishing Loveliness”
09 “The Rain Song”
10 “Crépuscule”

i want to hear a song called "Surfing On A Mind Wave Pt 2"

Love it.

so that's the lead-off track? wow

it's really promising, i'm glad he's managed to push this sound further.

as much as I like the stuff he's done since Point I do think it comes off sometimes like a collection of parts. those same parts are in this track of course - it really does seem like it uses "Fit Song" as sort of a launch point - but this definitely feels like a completed song. I've listened to it four times now and it's really growing on me.

It's much more grounded in the song than an exercise, which "Fit Song" feels like. Think his time with MetaFive helped him out.

yeah there's a real song with a climax to it, more than just a nice intricate groove bit like a lot of Point and Sensuous was.

it feels closer to the salyu x salyu album than either of those actually

maybe I'm just wildly speculating but I'm guessing his recent divorce is gonna factor into the sound here

Is anyone getting a faint trace of Hosono from this or am I projecting?

i have been listening to Miharu Koshi's "Parallelism" a lot these days and imo Cornelius's Fantasma-and-posts works are super influenced by that stuff. baroque robotic pop with lots of cool percussion, things zipping by, drum-and-bass influences, etc.

that album was produced by Hosono in 1984 and i highly recommend for fans of Cornelius. "Toubousha" sounds a lot like "Clash".

it does sound like something on Medicine Compilation. now I hear it.

they are on tour right now. saw some cool photos of them playing in Mexico a few days ago. also this!

https://i.imgur.com/jks8CZn.png

got to say a Mac Demarco/Cornelius split EP would be a sweet thing to hear.

there's also Constellations of Music, which is basically CM5 but does contain a few original tracks on it (including two by salyu x salyu, one of which is a great cover of "Hammond Song")

wow, this "hammond song" cover!!

otoh, yeah, this new cornelius album is pretty boring, huh? wish he'd just work with salyu more instead tbh. there's some cool stuff on here but the laid back arrangements make his weak vox stick out kinda uncomfortably imo.

how's the live show these days?

Saw them at the 930 club in DC and loved the video/visuals and much of the music (the art-pop with rhythmic beat cuts more than the 2 that sounded kinda metalcore0

http://thequietus.com/articles/23926-cornelius-interview-favourite-albums

He did another top album list...Smiths, Prefab Sprout, Donovan, D'angelo, Jeff Phelps and more

listened to (s)oun(d)beams for the first time in a while today and it's still excellent, one of his best works & i really hope there's more salyu x salyu someday. definitely better than Mellow Waves

I forget where I saw this first, but I looked it up again after seeing the thread and think this is new?

http://www.hmv.co.jp/newsdetail/article/1802201001/

https://www.npr.org/event/music/593894464/cornelius-tiny-desk-concert

ah, cool stuff, thanks for the link

xxp - that must be a second volume of music from the NHK Design Ah show. I have the first disc and it's pretty good - even more granular and stripped back than Sensuous but actually a bit better than that album. because at least the concept is clear.

he looks so young

has anyone seen him on the latest tour? bummed i missed the sf show.

xp yeah wtf has he been sealed in a box these last 12 years

nm just read review upthread and watched the npr thing :D

https://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/design-a-2/1357728295

new nhk design is out

nowhere to download if you're not in Japan, though... not as far as I can tell. lotsa samples at the link.

http://towershibuya.jp/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/18_02_22_DA2L-0002-1024x683.jpg

Packaging for the new one looks cool.

mellow waves is good, i just listened to it for the first time

Anyone tracked down a copy of the new NHK Design in the wild? I'm thinking of ordering it. What's the best shop?

I bought it on iTunes Japan.

It's really good. Stands on its own.

I dare say it's better than Mellow Waves!

Check it out.

http://cornelius.patatap.com/

that NHK comp is really good! better than the first one, even. love that he brought back the Teriyaki Boyz beat he did and added in Cibo Matto

Yeah, it's really good. Worth the purchase.

apparently cornelius covered "passionfruit" for a spotify session. i've never heard anything drake's done in his entire career and also i don't spotify so i'll probably never hear it, but i bet it's good.

it's pretty groovy and shockingly faithful to the original

there's a volume 3 NHK comp coming out? damn!

That's great. The second one is awesome.

i forget the name of the track, but the interview about fave albums reminds me that he played a song at field day a few weeks back that was basically Appetite by prefab sprout. not that thats a bad thing, in fact its a very good thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkOdy7l9qZI

「デザインあ3」発売！
2018.07.18 発売￥2,000+税
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1. 朝の5分版テーマ
2. デザインあのテーマ (うた　ショコラ)
3. 森羅万象 (うた　大野由美子)
4. 見えないものを見る
5. ピッタリ (うた　小山田圭吾)
6. 都市のレイヤー
7. てん せん めん (うた　ショコラ)
8. そざい体操第一
9. 間に合わせる
10. SHOOT&EDIT (うた　LEO今井)
11. くりかえし
12. めでたい - おせち (KAKATO - 環ROY × 鎮座DOPENESS)
13. クラッチ
14. もん
15. まつ (うた　高橋幸宏)
16. きせる
17. うちとそと
18. ポスターフライト
19. ことのはうた (うた　中納良恵)
20. チーム○○
21. エンディングテーマ

There's also a DVD - https://youtu.be/M0QCTBOAsYg

these little design あ records are so fun

Has anyone heard the third NHK yet?

Also, how about this?

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/international/8466374/japan-cornelius-new-album-ripple-waves

only on the first track but I'm really amused by this so far

I dont think this album is particularly mellow

new NHK record is good. they're all inconsistent and fun and better than mellow waves.

I just picked it up. I think all 3 NHK records are kind of the same but they're all really tasty - lots of great moments on this one.

Not sure what to think of Ripple Waves yet - I kinda wish the new stuff had been sectioned off into an EP or something, cuz that's all pretty good. I don't have much use for Cornelius remixes...he's one of those musicians that always seems to get it right the first time.

What's your take on the third one? I've got 1 & 2. 2 is fantastic. Is 3 worth tracking down?

Yeah. It's more like 2 than 1 - each track is sort of its own thing. The one with Leo Imai is really nice. I think Takahashi makes an appearance too. There is a bit of repetition here (one track is a little jam off "Helix/Spiral" and I think one is repeated from the other volumes) but it's worth getting if you liked the other two. As always the sound design is impeccable. These sort of small, somewhat gimmicky compositions are really up his alley.

new one is really nice. in retrospect Mellow Waves feels like a run up to this. its actually kind of funky in spots but overall quite sad. the death of 2 YMO members I think weighs heavy on this. speaking of which it's a bit odd that he decided to re-record "Environmental" since it was just on the Metafive album from last year. I guess it's a much better fit here. anyways the long track "Dream in the Mist" is a real showstopper, could listen to an entire album like that