Cornelius - Mellow Waves (2017)

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.

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

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