Wheels Of Omon

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.

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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.