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Format Details:
Release Date: 11 April 2025
Label: Glitterbeat GmbH
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4030433616925
Release Date: 11 April 2025
Label: Glitterbeat GmbH
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4030433616918
Description
Kuunatic's hotly anticipated second album takes us deeper into their self-made fantasy mythology, proposing whole new worlds of psychedelic drama and ritual.
First the facts. Kuunatic are the Tokyo-based trio of Fumi Kikuchi on keyboards, Shoko Yoshida on bass and Yuko Araki on drums. All three of them also sing. They formed in 2016 and released an EP and 7" single before, in 2021, dropping their debut album, Gate of Kluna, on an unsuspecting public.
Here's where things get unusual. Gate of Kluna was no ordinary album. Following on from their Kuurandia EP, it developed a mix of psychedelic garage and prog rock, ritual drumming, chanting female vocals, lush keyboard textures and traditional Japanese folk instruments to tell the mythic tale of the planet Kuurandia - a bold saga of magic, volcanoes and battle.
Now, with the release of their second album, Wheels of Omon Kuunatic have come to take us further down the rabbit hole. Wheels of Omon builds on the story of Kuurandia, its moon Kluna and its sun Omon with more tales of prophecy, mysterious powers and magical healing lakes. Each of its eight songs pinpoints a specific moment from one 45-hour orbit of Omon with atmospheric evocations of fleeting seasons and the rituals that accompany them.
Kuunatic's imaginative flights of visionary fancy achieve the same kind of epic, science-fiction world-building as legendary French jazz-prog heroes, Magma. But their inspirations come from further afield. "The three of us listen to completely different types of music so our ideas and influences come from all different places," they say.
Description
Kuunatic's hotly anticipated second album takes us deeper into their self-made fantasy mythology, proposing whole new worlds of psychedelic drama and ritual.
First the facts. Kuunatic are the Tokyo-based trio of Fumi Kikuchi on keyboards, Shoko Yoshida on bass and Yuko Araki on drums. All three of them also sing. They formed in 2016 and released an EP and 7" single before, in 2021, dropping their debut album, Gate of Kluna, on an unsuspecting public.
Here's where things get unusual. Gate of Kluna was no ordinary album. Following on from their Kuurandia EP, it developed a mix of psychedelic garage and prog rock, ritual drumming, chanting female vocals, lush keyboard textures and traditional Japanese folk instruments to tell the mythic tale of the planet Kuurandia - a bold saga of magic, volcanoes and battle.
Now, with the release of their second album, Wheels of Omon Kuunatic have come to take us further down the rabbit hole. Wheels of Omon builds on the story of Kuurandia, its moon Kluna and its sun Omon with more tales of prophecy, mysterious powers and magical healing lakes. Each of its eight songs pinpoints a specific moment from one 45-hour orbit of Omon with atmospheric evocations of fleeting seasons and the rituals that accompany them.
Kuunatic's imaginative flights of visionary fancy achieve the same kind of epic, science-fiction world-building as legendary French jazz-prog heroes, Magma. But their inspirations come from further afield. "The three of us listen to completely different types of music so our ideas and influences come from all different places," they say.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Brighde Chaimbeul
Orkesta Mendoza
Altin Gun
King Ayisoba
Refree
Gaye Su Akyol
Etceteral
Tau & The Drones Of Praise
Kuunatic
