Ricks Ang

@ricks_ang

Founder / Art Director of @kitchen_label Music as @aspidistrafly
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Included in the Japanese design publication 『あたらしい音楽のデザイン』 (BNN). A collection of Reiwa-era music-related graphic design in Japan. KITCHEN. LABEL is featured through selected releases, alongside an interview reflecting on the label’s approach to music and design. Grateful for the care given to the work.
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5 months ago
KI-050 MEITEI / 冥丁 • AGATE / 瑪瑙 ❏ Tracklisting HAŌ (Previously unreleased track) SHIN-OIRAN (Remodeled from Oiran I, Kofū) SHIN-SADAYAKKO (Remodeled from Sadayakko, Kofū) SHIN-WARŌSOKU (Remodeled from Wa-rōsoku, Kofū III) KYŪGEKI (Remodeled from Shurayuki hime and Akira Kurosawa, Kofū II) SHIN-OIRAN II (Remodeled from Oiran II, Kofū) SHIN-EDOGAWARANPO (Remodeled from Edogawa Ranpo, Kofū III) Format : LP, CD, Digital Catalogue Number : KI-050 Release Date : 17 April 2026 Label : @kitchen_label Project Director: @meitei.japan Composed by @meitei.japan Mastered by @almachrome Artwork by @kamisoe_kyoto Calligraphy by @bioxie Photography by @hiroshi_okamotoo Design by @ricks_ang @kitchen_label Cover Artwork © MEITEI, Traffic Inc
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19 days ago
KI-049 On Solitude - Hiroshi Ebina 
❏ Tracklisting  
1. The Village in the Sky (feat. Hinako Omori)
2. Your Mind is Like the Ocean
3. For Brief Moment
4. How to Belong to Yourself
5. Saudade da Memória Perdida
6. Hush
7. One Step Closer to Awareness
8. Transience/Permanence
9. Quiescence
10. Hokokuji Bamboo Forest
11. My Mind is Like the Ocean
12. Isolation Portrait (Brooklyn, NY)
13. A Silent Room (feat. marucoporoporo) 
Format : LP, CD, Digital Catalogue Number : KI-049 Release Date : 20 February 2026 Label : @kitchen_label 
All compositions by @he_soundvisual Lyrics, Vocals by @hinakoomori (1), @marucoporoporo_ (13) Mastered by @josephbranciforte Artwork by @chizuru_masumura 
Design by @ricks_ang @kitchen_label
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20 days ago
2026 ahead. Quiet days, steady work. Grateful for the people, the calm, and the chance to keep building.
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4 months ago
Closing out the year 2025. We continue to care deeply about music and physical form, making records as objects to live with. Thank you for listening closely, and for staying with us. KI-038 MEITEI - SHITSURAI (LP) KI-045 Kin Leonn - echo in the gleam (Digital) KI-046 FMT - Le Cube Dans Mon Rêve (Cassette) KI-047 MEITEI - Sen’nyū (LP, CD) KI-047 MEITEI - Sen’nyū (Book) KI-048 Ryuuta Takaki - Jewels (CD)
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4 months ago
A quiet street led us to a tiny red cassette boombox
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6 months ago
KI-048 Jewels - Ryuuta Takaki ✺ Tracklisting 1. Chrysalis 2. Funnel and Infinite Reflections 3. Kegon 4. Jewels 5. Sunken Cathedral 6. Interflow 7. Nacre 8. Gilded Veins 9. Celestial Tuning
 Format: CD, Digital
Catalogue: KI-048
Release Date: 24 Oct 2025
Label: @kitchen_label Distribution: @inpartmaint_official (Japan), @darlarecords (US), @rubadub_distribution (UK/EU)
 Composed & Arranged by @ryuuta_takaki 
Mastered by @chiheihatakeyama 
Cover Art: Gustave Moreau, La Péri, c.1876 
(public domain, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris)
Art Direction & Design: @ricks_ang (KITCHEN. LABEL)
Portrait: @cabosu_lady_ 
 Specifications: Glass-mastered CD housed in customised kraft paper case with gold-foil letterpress 

kitchenlabel.bandcamp.com
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6 months ago
Meitei · 冥丁
『Sen’nyū · 泉涌』
Hardcover Photo Book

Format: Book
Catalogue Number: KI-047BK
Release Date: 8 August 2025

Specification: 210 × 150 × 16 mm, 108 pages, hardcover with exposed spine binding, gold-foil letterpress, printed on premium uncoated stock

Publisher: @kitchen_label Project & Concept Director: @meitei.japan Producer: @kenzo_the_hell @akaneko_music 
Photography by @hiroshi_okamotoo 
Art Direction & Design by @ricks_ang @kitchen_label
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9 months ago
KI-047 Meitei ·冥丁 『Sen’nyū · 泉涌』 Tracklisting 1. 泉涌 - 壱湯 / Sen’nyū - Ichi-no-yu  2. 泉涌 - 弍湯 / Sen’nyū - Ni-no-yu 
3. 泉涌 - 参湯 / Sen’nyū - San-no-yu 4. 泉涌 - 四湯 / Sen’nyū - Yon-no-yu 5. 泉涌 - お湯 / Sen’nyū - Oyu 6 .泉涌 - 伍湯 / Sen’nyū - Go-no-yu Format : LP, CD Catalogue Number : KI-047 Release Date : 8 August 2025 Label : @kitchen_label 
Distributed in Japan by @inpartmaint_official Project & Concept Director: @meitei.japan Producer: @kenzo_the_hell @akaneko_music Composed & Arranged by @meitei.japan Field Sound Recording by Tsuyoshi Iwasaki @herbayfukuoka Mastered by @studioschwebung 
Photography by @hiroshi_okamotoo 
Art Direction & Design by @ricks_ang @kitchen_label
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9 months ago
❏ KI-046 The FURICO Music Team - Le Cube Dans Mon Rêve (The Cube in My Dream) Tracklisting 1. Cube 1: Le Déclencheur (Trigger) 2. Cube 2: Les Tentatives (Attempts) 3. Cube 3: Collages (Collages) 4. Cube 4: Le Temps (Time) 5. Cube 5: Synthétique (Synthetic) 6. Lorsque La Cloche Du Soir Sonne 7. Cube 6: L’Avant Et L’Arrière (Front and Back) 8. Le Rêve Restauré (Dream Restored) Format : Cassette, Digital Catalogue Number : KI-046 Release Date : 4 July 2025 Label : @kitchen_label All compositions by Takehiro Miyata Sound prod., mixing & arrangements by Tomoyuki Ike Performed by @furicomusicteam Mastered by @kinleonn Art: Temps et Regard (Time and Gaze) @chiakitamura_ct Design by @ricks_ang , @aspidistrafly
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10 months ago
KI-038LP 『SHITSURAI · 室礼』by Meitei · 冥丁 
Tracklisting  
立春 · Risshun
立夏 · Rikka
立秋 · Risshū
立冬 · Rittō  Label : @kitchen_label 
Distributed in Japan by @inpartmaint_official 
Composed & Arranged by @meitei.japan Mastered by @gen_wwc Produced by @meitei.japan Creative Direction by @wara_japan Art Direction & Design by @ricks_ang Additional Design by @cdots_muramatsu
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1 year ago
the @meitei.japan singapore fam! 🇸🇬
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1 year ago