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marucoporoporo - Conceive the Sea (Flau) [Ambient Pop]

  • Writer: The Slow Music Movement
    The Slow Music Movement
  • May 14, 2024
  • 1 min read
The cover art for Japanese musician marucoporoporo's Conceive the Sea album, showing a close-up of numerous bubbles against a dark background, creating an abstract, reflective pattern. The mood is ethereal and dynamic.

Astral projecting through various planes via the flau portal, marucoporoporo ponders the nature of time & the cycles of life; her conclusions transmitted back through the speakers on amniotic ambient pop currents & psychonautic frequencies with the echoes of earthly instruments providing reassuring stepping stones through the sonic ambiguity & phantasmagoric soundscapes. It's a  hypnagogic delight & a stunning debut album.


Japanese musician marucoporoporo in black stands in a room with Japanese text on the walls. The mood is contemplative, with muted colors and soft lighting.

What The Release Notes Say

Born out of music created for an art installation in 2022, ‘Conceive the Sea’ is an introspective odyssey exploring artistry and existence, a work carried by thematic currents based on the passing of time and the cycle of life. With an aesthetic essence guided by the imagery of seawater and amniotic fluid, and their connections with origins of life and nurturing ideas of growth, ‘Conceive the Sea’ follows the project’s debut 2018 EP ‘In her dream’ as well as a recent remix for aus.


Fusing off-kilter acoustic guitars with gorgeous vocals that undulate from shaded intonations to crystal-clear high-pitched illuminations, ‘Conceive the Sea’ forms ambient reveries with echoes of gossamer folksong, creating arrangements that seem to float and drift to oceanic depths. Eight tracks representing soft, faint yet subtly absorbing pools of sound, infused with delicately treated electronics. Impressionistic music as warm as the midday sun on closed eyelids; music that shimmers, like bioluminescent marine life, sparkling in the rain.


Credits

Composed, performed, recorded & mixed by marucoporoporo

Lyrics by marucoporoporo, Aya

Mastered by Yosi Horikawa

Cover object production by Taki Nao

Artwork by Baku Hashimoto







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