POP CULTURE! Issue

videos are by him. He has a great skill to turn
the impression of sounds into unique moving
visuals. And further more we all love his sense of
humour. Now we are making a new music video
for a track from the album and preparing visuals
for our forthcoming live shows together.
Looking at your last EP Get It, cats seem to
be a reoccurring theme, is there reason behind
this?
Ah I think it was just a coincidence! I don’t
know why it seems that they stand very well
with our music, I love those cats very much
though. If everyone associates cats with our
tracks, I think it’s cool. Everyone is loving cats
nowadays. Well the logo of flau is also a cat! I
love it so much too… But I love small birds
more!
What’s it like being included in the flau
records family? Do you have a chance to work
with other artists on the label?
I have released my album as Sparrows 2 years
ago on flau, and my brother Ryuto is doing a
lot of art works for flau. So for me it is a kind
of the musical home in Japan. They have wide
range of artists and they has different,
unique styles each other. And
the boss is a gentle guy
and respectable artist.
I am hoping some
collaborations in
near future.
How did you
approach
making your
first fulllength
album
at flau?
Recently I have been making more floororiented
tracks like our last EP from Sound
Pellegrino and the ones in their compilation
albums. But we wanted our first album to be
a mix of the band’s first concept that appeared
notably on our first 2 Eps, “Initiative!” and “Neo
Age”. There were a lot of tracks left undone so
we sorted out developing them. I tried to let the
album have depth and many expressions more
than the existing EPs.
Your single Jungli-la takes samples from Siri
and plays homage to Donkey Kong, do your
other tracks follow a similar pattern?
On “Get It”, you can hear the conversation of
Teki and Siri!
The bonus track Dream Incubation features
electronic artist IKONIKA, how did you
approach her for the collaboration?
When you do tracks with the other people, the
results are always beyond your imagination.
So it is very exciting and interesting thing for
me. But I am too shy to tell someone “let’s do
it together!” ahah. In the case of this track,
Sound Pellegrino introduced me Ikonika to
do a collaboration for their compilation
album. And the result was far amazing
than I expect!
Where are you excited to take your music
next?
Wherever.
What is the ultimate games console?
Retro Freak absolutely.
“We learned that
you should always
check the spam
mail folder too if
you don’t want
to miss the chance!”
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