Name: Emboss Star
Brand: Kazumichi Komatsu

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

FLAU92

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Colour

Blue

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-10-15

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Kudos

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

Artist

Kazumichi Komatsu

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

Flau

Flau is a record label and event organizer based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in December 2006, it is curated by Yasuhiko Fukuzono.
With a focus on promoting unique and innovative music, Flau has become a prominent player in the Japanese music scene. The label showcases a diverse range of artists from various genres, including electronic, experimental, folk, and ambient.
Through their carefully curated releases and events, Flau aims to create an immersive experience for music lovers. They strive to connect artists with their audience and foster a sense of community within the industry.

Emboss Star is the new album by Kochi-born, Kyoto-based artist Kazumichi Komatsu, the first to be released under his own name following a prolific run of material as Madegg. Informed by a range of earlier work including EPs, installation works, video works, as well as live appearances at fashion shows, parties &amp; raves, the material collected on Emboss Star has been prepared and refined over the past four years, its final collation described as like arranging the pieces on a chess board; every piece strategically placed. In its entirety Emboss Star is intended to emphasize the fundamental aspects of sound, and its relation to the material processes of playback; the grain of a rough recording, the jump and skip of a needle, the backwards gargle of a rewind. Individual parts shift suddenly, mirroring the abrupt transitions of everyday life. In this Komatsu attempts to reconfigure our response to sound, and the associations it often evokes; to reconsider the exchange of information and image, to alter perceptions. Inviting a state of subconscious reverie – a mood often linked with ambient music but rarely matched as it is here – Komatsu adds an element of resistance to Emboss Star, as if depicting the tranquility of a dream, as well as its inevitable disturbance. With creativity now compressed into a form of contemporary communication often ruled by vanity, redundant hashtags and tiresome jargon, Komatsu navigates the noise, recognizing technological ennui yet finding beauty, folklore &amp; imaginative possibility.

Emboss Star

Music GB