CD ALBUM
“Mitosis“
Moskitoo
- 01.Wonder Particle
- 02.Trajectory
- 03.Mint Mitosis
- 04.Micro porta
- 05.Fluctuations
- 06.Vulpecula
- 07.Who lives in the skin burn?
- 08.Taxonomy
- 09.Night Hike
- 10.Fungi
- 11.Fragments of journey
- 12.Astra
- 01.Hiatus (Bonus Track *Japanese Edition Only )
- 02.Hokori no Horse (Bonus Track *Japanese Edition Only )
- 03.Lethe (Bonus Track *Japanese Edition Only )
CAT# : 12k1077 / AMIP-0039
RELEASE DATE : Sep 3rd 2013 (Worldwide)
RELEASE DATE : Sep 8th 2013 (Japan)
FORMAT : CD / DIGITAL
Label : 12k
Japan Distribute : Inpartmaint / p*dis
2007 saw the album debut of Moskitoo with 12k’s Drape (12k1041). Since then, Moskitoo (Tokyo’s Sanae Yamasaki) has been busy performing live, recording and releasing new work (including sound/voice for Japanese media/television and iOS apps) and expanding her talents as a visual artist in Japan. After six years of growth as an artist she presents her sophomore album, Mitosis.
Mitosis begins with “Wonder Particle,” a track that very much sums up Moskitoo’s intentions: to embrace the digital with not only a human, but a distinctly feminine touch. Wispy, layered vocals swim around rhythmic fragments and warm insect-like noises. The music is strange and otherwordly, perhaps the soundtrack to an evening stroll on a warm night in a bustling alien city. There are lights, swarms of sound, a myriad of conversations blended by a thousand different stories of passers-by always on the move.
The inspirations behind this second album are not far away from these ideas. Moskitoo herself was thinking of journeys, even ones on the cellular level. Mitosis, or the division of a cell into two identical sets of chromosomes, was a point of departure for Moskitoo as she explored the ideas of division, expansion, the human body, and small particles of matter. One can draw a correlation between these ideas and her music as it nervously wiggles it way through sounds both liquid and electronic.
Mitosis is a dreamy, playful and serious album that shows Moskitoo’s talents as a sound explorer and songwriter. It is at once both catchy and curious, a question that doesn’t always need an answer.
Moskitooによるセカンドアルバム。
細胞分裂という意味のタイトル「mitosis」が示す様に、繰り返すように小さな音が増殖、変化し作用し合いながら空間を満たしてゆく。
柔らかな歌声の美しいメロディーやハーモニーに、アコースティックギターや様々なオーガニックな生音、そしてデリケートな電子音のトリートメントがゆっくりと溶け合うドリーミーなアンビエント・ポップアルバム。
All tracks created and artwork by Moskitoo
Except track 07 Lyrics by Takuya Koiso(Regu Regu),
Original song by Ash Ra School,included in Si Sol e.p.(See Recordings)
Mixed by Keiichi Sugimoto
Masterd by Taylor Deupree
Reviews on Magazine:
ドイツの音楽誌「Sonic Seducer」12月号にレビュー掲載
ベルギーの音楽誌「Gonzo Circus」176号にレビュー掲載
ドイツのカルチャー誌「De:Bug」176号にレビュー掲載
イタリアの音楽雑誌「Rockerilla」10月号にレビュー掲載
Reviews on Website:
HUNGER CULTURE(ES), NORMAN RECORDS(UK), SON OF MARKETING(IT), FLUID RADIO(UK), ONDAROCK(IT),DMute(FR),
Chain D.L.K(IT) ,ETHER REAL, Liability(FR)
Live Tour:
Moskitoo Mitosis Tour 2014
2014/1/25 Tokyo 北とぴあプラネタリウムホール（東京）*終了しました
3/29 Kyoto night cruising meets つくるびる/つくるびる1F（京都）
4/10 Fukuoka オルタナティブスペースHACO（福岡・田川）
4/11 Fukuoka ギャラリーモリタ（福岡）
4/12 Ooita 永久別府劇場（大分・別府）
4/13 Hiroshima ヲルガン座（広島）
4/15 Kobe space eauuu（神戸）
Reviews
Cell division is generally a good thing. It is known: where it occurs, there is life. And as a gesture, passing on life is certainly to be welcomed. In this sense, one can also listen to “Mitosis” by the Japanese artist Moskitoo. It is a kind of abstract pop album, where glitch aesthetics meet dreamy songwriting: friendly clicks, hums, and beeps shape the soundscape of the album, in which harp, string, or guitar sounds occasionally appear, connecting the flickering with something familiar. This might all be a bit too harmless if her voice, with its whispered, childlike tone, didn’t fit so perfectly with it. One might almost imagine listening to the first “steps” of a curious infant through (digital) life.
細胞分裂は一般的に良いことである。どこでそれが起きるかを知れば、そこには生命がある。そして、生命を受け渡すという行為は確かに歓迎されるべきものである。この意味では、日本人アーティスト、Moskitooによる「Mitosis」もそういったものとして聴くことができる。これは、グリッチ美学と夢見るようなソングライティングが出会う、一種の抽象的なポップアルバムである。アルバムの音の世界を形作るのは、優しいクリック音、ハム音、そしてビープ音であり、そこに時折ハープや弦楽器、ギターの音が顔を出し、ちらつく音と何か親しみのあるものをつなぎ合わせる。まるで好奇心に満ちた幼児が（デジタルな）世界を歩き始める「最初の一歩」を聞いているような感覚になるかもしれない。
ーDE BUG MAGAZINE(DE) October 2013
After six years of growth as an artist, she presents her second album, Mitosis, a dreamy, playful, and serious album that showcases Moskitoo’s talent as a composer and explorer of textures. It’s an album of delicate glitch-pop where voices appear and disappear among stuttering synths and melodic textures that feel like the pulse of a person at rest. Experimental noise-pop with great elegance and subtlety in its sound.
Moskitoo reveals her most contemplative side and takes us into what she calls onkyokei: an evolution of music toward silence. Her intention is to embrace the digital era with a distinctly feminine touch. Faint voices divided into a thousand layers float over rhythmic fragments and warm noises that resemble insects or the bustle of the city. Everything becomes light and delicate to the rhythm of chords, noises, and silences.
これは、夢のようで遊び心がありながらも真剣なアルバムで、Moskitooの作曲家としての才能と、音の質感を探求する力を示している。繊細なグリッチポップのアルバムで、声が断片的なシンセサウンドや、休息中の人の鼓動のように感じられるメロディアスな質感の中に現れたり消えたりする。優雅で音の繊細さを備えた実験的なノイズポップである。
ーHunger Culture (ES)
All reviews : https://www.12k.com/releases/mitosis/