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Miki Yui - Mills

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1.	dial sun 03:15	buy track
2.	granit 04:52	buy track
3.	salute 02:44	buy track
4.	mica 05:01	buy track
5.	solareo 12:59	buy track
6.	dial moon 07:53	buy track

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Boundless solar oscillations in exquisite cycle; this new record from Miki Yui is as playful as it is mesmerizing.

Cuspeditions warmly welcomes Japanese artist Miki Yui to the label, with a work delicately crafted from field recordings, synthesizer, solar oscillator and sampler. Yui is known for the unique nature of her music (apparent also in past collaborations with Rolf Julius, Rie Nakajima and Klaus Dinger), and whilst Mills retains the subtlety and sensuousness of her earlier works, these new coherent and lucid compositions are charged with a narrative tension we’ve not heard before.

Dial Sun opens the album as an early morning call. Sounds flicker and flop, not a care in the world, amidst scraping and intimate electronics, escalating toward a frenzied outro.

The subdued unwind of Granite follows on in a laminose exploration of metallic samples upon fragmented melody, fleeting and windswept as a lost memory. The hollow-sounding language of sputtering synthesizer and warped samples creates a rhythmic strangeness in the album’s shortest piece, Salute.

Otherworldly overtones with a cooler feel characterize Mica where long elegant feedback slides between dissonant swells, thick and granular as though emerging from electronic canyons.

Solareo is the album’s major work at 13 minutes long, and invites the listener to meander through dense almost reggae like chord-beds, slow pulses and a raucous of bizarre synthetic glitches.

The cyclic reprise of Dial Moon returns to the playfulness of the opening track with dancing rhythms and turbulent hooks. Tones like whispers fade into quietude, toward a silence warm and balsam.

Miki Yui’s harnessing of solar energy, both materially and symbolically, feels like a joyous salute to the sun in all its manifestations. We couldn’t be happier releasing it into the spring!

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released May 1, 2018

music by miki yui 2016 – 2017
mastering by rashad becker
front cover : hebarium from kenya by stefan schneider

many thanks to all of you for supporting my music!
all rights reserved © miki yui 2018

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CUSP is a new Manchester imprint championing experimental music from the hinterlands. Each of its releases aims to forage new sonic territories in electronics, improvisation and beyond.

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