[Microsound-announce] [12k.line] 12k: new release MOSKITOO "DRAPE" (12K1041) Available Now 12k.line mailing list 12k.line at 12k.com http://12k.com/mailman/listinfo/12k.line_12k.com

Richard Chartier chartier at 3particles.com
Fri Feb 9 17:01:42 EST 2007


12k
february 09, 2007

NEW RELEASE

artist: Moskitoo
title: Drape
cat.no: 12k1041
release: February, 2007

available now
info: www.12k.com/1041.html
buy now: www.12k.com/shop


12k kicks off its 11th year with a new release that takes the label  
down new sonic pathways. Caught between the organic and electronic  
minimalism that 12k is known for and the unconventional Japanese pop  
musings and songwriting style of Happy, Moskitoo’s Drape is an  
infectously strange, bleepy, and dreamy debut release.

Sanae Yamasaki (Moskitoo) hails from Sappporo, Japan in Hokkaido, the  
country’s northern-most prefecture. Perhaps a reaction to the cool  
climate of her home, her multi-instrumental talents bring a wide  
range of warm tones and textures to Drape by means of guitar,  
metallophone, organ, drum machines, synthesizers and nostalgic toy  
instruments. Yamasaki’s gentle, airy vocals play off of broken beats  
and aqueous sound drops evoking half-awake memories lost and found.

Influenced by visual art (she painted the cover image), modern  
electronic music and abstract pop, such as Eno’s explorations in the  
1970’s, Yamasaki does not set out to write a particular style of  
music, but rather, lets her creative process emerge naturally,  
following whims and experiments.

Drape is, by far, the most structured and songwritten release on 12k  
to date. It’s a release that signifies not a complete directional  
change for the label but the creative go-ahead to add new nuances to  
the already established sound that the label has pioneered.

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12k is also releasing a limited edition cd single features remixes of  
“Wham & Whammy” and “Skie” by Frank Bretschneider, Mark Fell, and  
Taylor Deupree.




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