IV, by YUKO ARAKI

IV

by YUKO ARAKI

supported by

more...

	/

Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Matte laminate and embossed sleeve with monochrome printed insert card and fold out poster

Includes unlimited streaming of IV via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 7 days

3 remaining

Purchasable with gift card

$12 USD or more
Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$9 USD or more

1.	‡Magnetar 04:11	buy track
2.	‡Otiron 04:27	buy track
3.	‡Damontoid 04:32	buy track
4.	Gravitational Collapse 05:49	buy track
5.	†White Petals 02:47	buy track
6.	†VCR8 03:56	buy track
7.	†Sloshing (feat.Taichi Nagura) 03:45	buy track

about

A note from Yuko Araki
This might sound a little antithetical, but I am interested in making noise music that is free from unnecessary noise. I do realise how this sounds, but it is absolutely at the core of my new recording. I want to create maximum impact and dynamics in the music through using only the essential elements and materials.

I am a huge fan of noise music, and in many cases I enjoy the excessive nature of that music. For my own work though I am interested in reducing this, boiling it down, to the very critical parts that can allow the music to profoundly affect those who choose to listen to it. I want to use what I have at my disposal with intent and with force.

I also wanted to deepen my connection to, and place in, this music. To this end I have started to explore how it is I fit into the work. I explored how is my body part of this project beyond being a gestural interface between the various machines I use to make it. I’ve started to think about voice a lot and this has come into the process of the recording. I’m not so much interested in the way voice can speak to stories or singing for that matter. I’m more interested in how voice might haunt the music.

I invited another artist, Taichi Nagura from the band Endon, to contribute some voice to this album too. He is featured on Sloshing and his voice absolutely captures this quality I am interested in exploring. It’s as if he is trapped in that piece, fight for and against the other materials in the sound. This tension captures, for me at least, the relationships I think are so powerful about making, and also listening to music.

credits

released October 27, 2023

All songs recorded by Yuko Araki.
Track1,2,3,5 mixed by Yuko Araki and Nobuki Nishiyama
Track 4,6,7 mix and post production by Lawrence English
Mastered by Lawrence English at Negative Space
Design by T.Pakioufakis

license

about

YUKO ARAKI Tokyo, Japan

Multi-instrumentalist composer in Tokyo Japan

discography

IV X VI (Re:visions)

Feb 2024
IV

Oct 2023
End Of Trilogy

Apr 2021
Ⅰ

Mar 2020

contact / help

Contact YUKO ARAKI

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like YUKO ARAKI, you may also like:

Approach
by Lawrence English

supported by 23 fans who also own “IV”

Award for Best Soundtrack For Staring Into The Void 2022 Mark Norgate
go to album
Everywhere at the end of time
by The Caretaker

supported by 20 fans who also own “IV”

Actually astounding and emotionally moving, creating a community that I have been proudly a part of for 2 years OrsonXD
go to album
Does Spring Hide Its Joy
by Kali Malone (featuring Stephen O’Malley & Lucy Railton)

supported by 19 fans who also own “IV”

music. silence. Gold. Ganondorofu
go to album
Volume Uno
by Stromboli

Embrace the void with Italian post-industrial maestro Stromboli (who is neither inside-out pizza or volcano). Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 1, 2017
go to album
COSMIC SESSIONS
by autotectonic

Ontario act Autotectonic offers up 10 stunning experimental tracks, fusing drone, power electronics & noise into a gripping whole. Bandcamp New & Notable May 16, 2020
go to album
‘Saga’
by Rinsaga

The pulsing industrial sounds on the wonderfully brutal new LP from Tokyo group Rinsaga will be catnip for the black-glove-and-mesh set. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 15, 2022
go to album
Duma
by Duma

supported by 17 fans who also own “IV”

this is awesome graeme
go to album