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01. Yuko Araki - Code of Sanctuary
02. Yuko Araki - Exhalation
03. Yuko Araki - Dazed
04. Yuko Araki - Cat Food 2
05. Yuko Araki - Inconstant Tangents
06. Yuko Araki - Positron in Bloom
07. Yuko Araki - A Ripple from Observatory
08. Yuko Araki - Tricentennial
09. Yuko Araki - Blood and Castle
10. Yuko Araki - Lost Race
11. Yuko Araki - Moonstroke in the Mountain
12. Yuko Araki - Optical Landfall
13. Yuko Araki - Dreaming Insects
14. Yuko Araki - Barnacle Twins
15. Yuko Araki - Howling Nebula
16. Yuko Araki - Dying of The Night
ARTIST
TITLE
End Of Trilogy
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RM 4137CD RM 4137CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/16/2021

Yuko Araki is one of a number of young female artists emerging from Japan that are redefining the outer boundaries of noise, post-industrial techno and experimental electronics. Raised as a pianist, Araki's teenage obsession with metal opened a gateway towards various types of intense sonics. Exploring a range of diverse music projects over the past decade, her solo work resolved in 2019 after she developed an approach to freeform analog noise. Working with a reductive set of tools, her methodology was to create work that created a sense of timbral density and complexity through a weaving together of competing elements. End Of Trilogy pushes this approach outward, taking in almost kosmiche sensibilities, creating a sound that glints with the unsteady radiation of a dissolving pulsar. The album is an offering of competing states of tension and release. It merges polychromatic pulses against waves of sheering noise and uneasy ruptures of sound. End Of Trilogy is a record of unpredictable momentum and tempered ferocity. Even at its most intense. Yuko Araki's work maintains a sense of playfulness, and a determination not to succumb to mere sonic nihilism. Drawing on techniques borrowed from 70s prog-rock and even free jazz, she dissolves expectation and, in the process, reveals an utterly personal approach to noise and experimental electronics. End Of Trilogy is not merely a conclusion, but rather an interrogation of what comes next.

Multi-instrumentalist/composer based in Tokyo, Yuko Araki started playing piano when she was a small child and in her teenage years was inspired by hardcore and metal music, but she soon became really eclectic and took on a diverse range of projects, including drummer of the oriental/tribal dream psych band Kuunatic and founding members of the neo classical noise duo Concierto de la Familia and her solo project: harsh noise drones layered by analog synthesizers, cymbals and samples of Japanese traditional instruments creating abstract rhythms and dissonant harmonies that sound like a noise orchestra. Her exceptional sensibility in processing extremely heavy and dense sounds makes the result sounding like nothing else you heard before: a thousand leaves oscillation sound at the same time rooted in Japanese noise but also totally different. Intergalactic noisescapes.