Memento Mori

by Jun Konagaya

Memento Mori cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 June 2017
  • Label: A-Records
  • Country: Japan
  • Community rating: 3.27/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Arriving three decades after his influential work with Grim, the veteran Japanese noise artist returns with an eerily beautiful collection of experimental electronics. The tracking relies extensively on organic field recordings of rural life and natural environments interwoven with solemn keyboard melodies and sparse, metallic percussion. The conceptual album acts as a haunting, melancholic reflection on mortality and the inevitable decay of organic life.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, cavernous, noisy

Tracklist

  1. Have A Song On Me
  2. I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face
  3. Lady Luck
  4. Lush Life
  5. Without A Song
  6. Moonlight In Vermont
  7. 'Deed I Do
  8. It Might As Well Be Spring
  9. That's For Me
  10. You'll Never Walk Alone
  11. I Love You

Credits

  • Billy Eckstine - primary artist, vocals, trumpet
  • Clare Osborn - artwork
  • Billy May - conductor, arranged by
  • Jun Konagaya - artwork

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