Takumi Akaishi

Edition size 200 copies. Handmade album jacket swathed in dyed gauze. Each jacket features a one-of-a-kind collage by Akaishi. Takumi Akaishi’s music is like a delicate shadow box garden, a miniature  sonic world unto itself. Following the release of his debut LP Music for Hurdy Gurdy (2012) and first cassette tape Naked Tape and Others (2013), Akaishi garnered critical acclaim for his fidelity to the hurdy gurdy mantle, filtered through a uniquely gentle, almost hazy touch. His  tracks are interjected with ambient noise culled from the quotidian  cityscape, complementing the characteristic “flatness” underpinning his  oeuvre. Memoria represents the culmination of six years in incubation,  the distillation of experience relived in the form of beautifully  distorted memory