Sara Udon: II = II
The first and likely only collaborative album between CS + Kreme and KAKUHAN, new for Modern Love.
Recorded in Osaka almost exactly a year ago (11th Nov, 2024), II = II is a stunning flex of asymmetric and atmospheric world-building, mastered by Rashad Becker for added shine, and highly recommended if you’re anywhere on the line from Autechre to Beatrice Dillon, Mark Fell to HTRK.
Playing to the quartet’s respective strengths, II = II finds balance between KAKUHAN’s percussive tekkerz and CS + Kreme’s emotional heft, with Conrad Standish providing drum programming and bass, Sam Karmel on electronics, Koshiro Hino on sampler, and Yuki Nakagawa on Cello. The sound they make together is beautiful but full of swagger - as if SND’s MAX MSP-ed and Razor-ed electronics were blunted at the edges, very gradually melted to vapour. It’s music that’s hyper-specific, in a vein that will be familiar to anyone who copped KAKUHAN’s astonishing debut album ‘Metal Zone’ in 2022, and yet somehow super loose with it, unravelling through four long tracks that each progress and expand the same essential register.
Shot from the hip but with ample tricks in the pocket, enhanced by that distinctive room-recorded je ne sais quoi and Noh-style percussive theatrics, it’s the most human sounding electroacoustic music imaginable; tough, rolling, complex, full of space and resonance - and if it really is to be the last word from CS+Kreme (they recently announced the band was no more) - what a way to go out.
Sara Udon: II = II, out now at boomkat.com
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Our first two EP’s from 2016/2017 have now been repressed by @totalstasis and are hopefully available wherever u like to get your stuff from
covers by @thomasjeppe1789 and mani buerger
photos from @boomkatonline
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Thx to everyone supporting us in this last year, our crew @thetrilogytapes@annex_agency and anyone who came to a show (there were some pretty special ones in ‘24), bought a record, had a chat, shared some tea etc etc it means a lot ❤️
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Omniversal Hum Presents CS + Kreme and Jules Reidy.
A night of adventurous music for discerning and dedicated ears.
CS + Kreme, the Naarm based but internationally renowned duo, perform a rare hometown show off the back of their brilliant, ecstatically spectral and rhythmically angular album ‘The Butterfly Drinks the Tears of the Tortoise’, released on The Trilogy Tapes. Collagic and at times absurd in their detailed sound design and compositional approach, the duo evokes emotive excursions that are remarkably succinct for exploratory modern music of this kind.
Jules Reidy’s sublime music maps the human experience in glittering constellations of sound. Berlin based, Reidy’s breathtaking recordings and magnetic performances offer a truly futuristic, singular vision of guitar music. Explorations of microtonal mysticism and alternate tunings drawn from transcendental folk and minimalism color Reidy’s playful experiments with smudged pop melodics and sampling. Reidy’s forthcoming album ‘GHOST/SPIRIT’ will be released on Thrill Jockey in 2025.
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