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This album, my first instrumental album, lies somewhere between my life/days and my crafts.
For the last year or so, I have visited, and sometimes lived in, a few different places. In each place, I recorded some sounds and made these 10 songs with them. It is half audio diary but it still is a collection of music pieces, something to enjoy listening to first and foremost.
This is very personal in many ways.
It is purely driven by my self-exploration. Locations and sounds were subjectively picked by my intuition. I wrote, recorded, mixed and mastered almost entriely by myself. There are two amazing contributors and they have provided great sounds for the songs that represent specific time or location they are related to.
This is, to me, the fundamental principle of creating; keep things personal. I believe it in turn makes the output more universally appealing.
Did this album achieve that goal? I am not sure. But I just hope you find these songs interesting.
And may there be something you can take with you from them.
Ukas is a DIY songwriter from Japan. Largely influenced by indie-rock/pop and alternative music, he writes catchy, noisy, messy and packed songs that are turbulently mixed up and fused with ennui.
Ukas / Smaller, in Blue