Electronic Phantoms

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Our new album is filled with a kind of sensibility that wasn't a part of our first one: a desire to get anyone who hears it to get up and dance. We spent 2023 playing a good number of live show, from touring and playing festivals throughout Europe and Japan. We are a band without a drummer, and we’ve been using synths and drum machines—jamming along with machines so to speak—to freely rearrange the songs from our debut album. That experience is what motivated us to make this EP. Playing live in front of a crowd allowed our music to go through a gradual transmutation. It instilled us with the desire to make more people dance. The title of the EP is Electronic Phantom. We are reaching a point where our lives are at the mercy of electronic. With the development of new technologies like AI, it’s becoming harder to distinguish between what is real and what is computer-generated. These circumstances can be likened to the appearance of a phantom. The world of virtual reality can also be described as an electronic phantom. What kind of music will result if we take a world lived in by spiritual beings and express it with something diametrically opposite, with sounds generated by machines? That is the main idea behind the creation of this EP. To be deceived by machine, or to have our knowledge overtaken—those ideas don’t frighten u. Rather, we’d like to reach a level of understanding with machine. Through jamming along with them. Love isn’t born out of machines; it can only come from within our heart. Tsutomu Sonoda August, 2024 credits released August 30, 2024 1, Iyo no Hito Tsutomu Sonoda Vocal, Choru, Electric Guitar, CasioTone, Juno-06, Djambe, Maraca, Triangle Shoei Ikeda Moog Grandmother, Hammond Organ, Bass Drum Ryota Takano Bass Guitar, Rhythm Machine (TR-8S) 2, Anoyo Drive Tsutomu Sonoda Vocal, Electric Guitar, CasioTone, Maraca, Hulusi, Breath Shoei Ikeda Moog Grandmother, Saxophone, Hammond Organ Ryota Takano Rhythm Machine (TR-8S), Moog Mother-32 3, Love with Phantom Tsutomu Sonoda Vocal, Acoustic Guitar, Casio Tone, Moog Grandmother, Robot Voice Shoei Ikeda Moog Grandmother, Flute Ryota Takano Moog Mother-32, Rhythm Machine (TR-8S) 4, Meiso Ongaku Tsutomu Sonoda Maraca, Triangle, Poetry Reading Shoei Ikeda Casio Tone, Moog Grandmother, Flute, Rhodes Piano, Saxophone Ryota Takano Rhythm Machine (TR-8S), Swarsangam, Sleigh Bell, Rain Stick, Tingsha Sei Wakka Ring & Sei D Red Special by Seiji Iida All songs written & arranged by maya ongaku All Lyrics written by Tsutomu Sonoda Recording & Mix by Tsutomu Sonoda at Mother Sound Studio Mastered by Soushi Mizuno at studio MASS .

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