The enigmatic Japanese musician Cornelius (Keigo Oyamada) follows up his 2017 Mellow Waves LP with a new digital release entitled Ripple Waves. Featuring B-sides from the 2017 effort, as well as live versions recorded for Spotify and NPR, Ripple Waves also includes reworks from artists like Beach Fossils and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Additionally, the track “Audio Architecture” was composed for an exhibit of the same name at Tokyo’s renowned 21_21 Design Sight museum. The installation included nine different video artists creating visuals for the track. Below, you can watch Keita Onishi‘s ultra-cool animated geometrics for “Audio Architecture.”
Side A: (New Tracks)
1. Audio Architecture
2. Audio Check Track
3. Passionfruit (Recorded at Spotify Studios NYC)
4. Not Bad, This Feeling
5. Inside a Dream
Side B: (Remixes/Reworks)
1. The Spell of a Vanishing Loveliness (Beach Fossils Rework)
2. Surfing On Mind Wave Pt. 2 (Fairy Liquid – A Sound Collage by Lawrence)
3. Mellow Yellow Feel (Hiatus Kaiyote Rework)
4. If You’re Here (Ryuichi Sakamoto Rework)
5. In a Dream (Haruomi Hosono Rework)
6. Helix / Spiral (Reginald Omas Mamode IV Rework)
