Cornelius - Mellow Waves (2017)

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.

loving this more an more, both msic and video. i love the calligraphy oscilloscope, that painting that starts waving and extruding and turning 3D, the elements drifting and clipping in and out of reality.

salivating over this rn

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Prego-97-Japan-Vinyl-LP-Cornelius-Apples-Stereo-Citrus-Rah-Band-Rocketship-C86-/121621479929?hash=item1c513481f9:g:T5sAAOSwBahVK3dT

Another track released, along with another awesome video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi4yYCL2reU&feature=youtu.be

this track definitely feels like it could fit in with Metafive, I dig it

that's great. the solo is crazy awesome.

That's much more like it.

The embed isn't working for me, so here's a link in case others having similar problems: https://youtu.be/Zi4yYCL2reU

Momentary derail. How do we feel about the most recent Shugo Tokomaru record? Both artists make good companions I feel..

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

I admit most Cornelius I've heard I'm quite indifferent towards except for Fantasma and Point, which I really love, and I'm really impressed by what he's released from the new one so far. I reckon this is going to be great.

And I'm a big fan of Shugo Tokumaru; he's reliably good but that last one didn't end up being one of my favourites of his.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CORNELIUS-96-69-OYAMADA-KEIGO-2-LP-Vinyl-JAPAN-TRATTORIA-MENU-97-PSJR-9114-15-/252994513689

tempted. if it was 69/96 i'd get it in a heartbeat

So this is supposedly out today?

i went on the website and there was a new video but i couldn't watch it in my country =(

uh so apparently the US date is now 7/21/17? wtf

It's out in Japan, but I'm guessing they're not big on digital releases (?).

https://www.amazon.co.jp/Mellow-Waves-CORNELIUS/dp/B0723H9FKT

Don't think it's possible to buy w/o a Japanese account, though. I used to be able to buy stuff off International Amazon pages. :(

30 bucks on US amazon by third-party sellers. I'm going to hold out for a little bit.

I understand that Japanese artists/labels are reluctant to fully embrace digital sales since that's one of the few places that people still buy CDs in significant number, but I wish the distribution for a lot of stuff was better, at least for artists like Cornelius who have a profile in the West.

if the stream i received today has correct info, it'll be available here on july 21

:O

It's now floating around the interwebs...

There are some jammy tracks but on the whole the album is a little too slow and ambient for my taste.

I'm sure others will like it a lot though.

It doesn't sound anything like the the previous albums, so I'm pretty excited about it. Now I just need to acquaint myself with it a little more.

on listen two now. its pretty cool. at first all the songs sounded the same. now it feels more like waves of sound.

what is that note he always uses w the repeater? that echoey clipped guitar that always leads into a bossa nova? is that a dotted fourth?

it is mellow af

on listen two as well. its cool how you can pick out so many sounds that were on the last three albums, but the compositions here are a lot different. not sure what the highlights or duds are, I kinda like the whole thing. in fact my main complaint about the album is that it isn't longer - it sounds so good I don't want it to end. it also occurs to me that this is the first Cornelius album without anything explicitly gimmicky on it, maybe "Helix/Spiral" but that's it.

anyway first impression is that this is not quite as great as Fantasma or Point but probably better than everything else he's done, which is about what I expected

Some of the end of "If You're Here" makes me think of Fripp/Summers. (Possibly a useless observation since it has little to do with the overall song.)

The Rain Song is so great! so prog. folk picking acoustic guitar + buzzing synth drones. really love Surfing on a Mind Wave, Pt. 2 as well

the last track is the one I've been listening on repeat. pretty stunning in a low-key sort of way

definitely think this is a grower

"The Spell of a Vanishing Loveliness" took me aback at first, but he pulls it off. Who's singing with him?

that's Miki from Lush

^i was just thinking about the words while listening this morning. someone upthread mentioned his divorce and this feels like a break up song. "my life/my child/this is now everything I am/still that's not enough". really love the pause after this line into "That was yesterday". time moves on. he gets by w a little help from his friends.

this record definitely has a melancholy feeling at times but it's not off-putting at all. more than any other Cornelius album this is a collection of songs rather than styles or sounds.

Out everywhere today. Cover art wasn't what I was expecting.

Seems the hype for this died considerably after the leak.

I dunno if it's because it wasn't released stateside yet or because Cornelius's star has faded in the last decade or so. The album is very good.

It's pretty good, based on my first listen. I got it from CD Japan along with the new DJ Krush last week. His use of stereo is dazzling, but it also feels like sleight-of-hand after a while -- for me the most fun part about this record is counting time, some of the stuff is super-cerebral. Amazing last track.

think it might be his best-sounding album overall. there's a weird trick where the guitars ring off the walls but all the reverb from the drums and cymbals are clipped off. actually the one thing it reminds me of is Zammuto (from The Books), who produces his records the same way. like you can tell every element was worked on in isolation and then assembled into what you get here. which of course is how he's been making music for two decades now, but the presence of actual songs does make it more interesting this go around.

Listening to this now.

Is Paddy McAloon given a writing credit on "In a Dream?" Because it's essentially "Appetite."

He ranked Steve McQueen #2 on his list of 10 albums everyone needs to hear, so it's absolutely intentional I guess.

http://www.vinylmeplease.com/magazine/cornelius-on-the-10-albums-everyone-needs-to-hear/

i feel that list

Is Paddy McAloon given a writing credit on "In a Dream?" Because it's essentially "Appetite."

I came on here to say the same thing. It's uncanny.

Only on my first listen but I'm really enjoying this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNJA3AeJS9g

saw him 10 years ago - wound up getting right up to the front so I could see them up close, might have been one of the most impressive shows I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJGNc5VKIFM

incredible new video directed by Keigo for the 7" track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWpU5csz-kk

LP & cassettes pre-orders shipping now

I found this album nice enough but I keep forgetting it exists tbh