MELLOW WAVES (LIMITED DELUXE COLOUR VINYL LP)

TRACKLISTING: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. OVERVIEW: Mellow Waves, Cornelius™ first album in over 11 years will be available in a limited deluxe edition pop-up gatefold 140g vinyl (including phenakistoscope animation insert) on 26th January, 2018. Cornelius announced eight North American tour dates for March 2018, including shows in Mexico City for the NRMAL Festival, New York™s Irving Plaza, the Carnegie Music Hall at Pittsburgh™s Andy Warhol Museum, and LA™s Fonda Theater. Filmed live at his record release shows at Tokyo™s Liquid Room, šHelix / Spiral› captures the Cornelius live experience, with its Kraftwerk-esque roboticism and immersive visuals meticulously synchronized with the performance from The Cornelius Group. For the uninitiated, Cornelius is the brainchild of Japanese multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada. A performing musician since his teens, Oyamada created his creative alter-ego (the name is an homage to the Planet of the Apes), in the early 1990s from the ashes of his previous project, Flipper's Guitar. With the 1997 release of Fantasma, Cornelius gained international recognition for his cut and paste style reminiscent of American counterparts Beck and The Beastie Boys and was released internationally by Matador Records. Being called a "modern day Brian Wilson" for his orchestral-style arrangements and production techniques, Cornelius subsequently became one of the most sought after producer/remixers in the world, working with a wide range of artists including Blur, Beck, Bloc Party, MGMT, and James Brown. With 2002™s Point, Cornelius' music took a quantum shift, going from sampling šfound sounds› to looping organic elements and creating lush soundscapes. Using water drops as the rhythmic backbone of šDrop› on his vocoder-infused cover of šBrazil›, the album dazed and amazed fans and set the path for the next phase of his career. 2007 brought this philosophy to an even higher level with the release of Sensuous. Cornelius™ live shows are known around the world for spectacular visuals (all perfectly synchronized to the performance), custom lighting that doesn't simply augment the performance, but becomes another instrument within it, and a full band of equally talented and diverse players. The companion piece to the album Sensurround + B Sides, earned the nomination for šBest Surround Sound Album› at the 2009 GRAMMY Awards. The summer of 2016 saw the release of Fantasma Remastered, on Lefse Records. The package, a 2LP reissue of his classic album, also included 4 additional outtakes and earned Pitchfork™s šBest New Reissue›. Cornelius has recorded music for Edgar Wright™s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, scored the anime mega-film Ghost in the Shell Arise, performed as the backbone of Yoko Ono™s reformed Plastic Ono Band, played the Hollywood Bowl with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and co-wrote and produced the Japanese artist salyu x salyu. PRESS/ONLINE: Cornelius, aka Keigo Oyamada, burst onto the U.S. radar with 1997's Fantasma, |No an overwhelming bricolage of Beach Boys harmonies, psych-pop precision parts, and odd samples that fit perfectly between the sunny naïvete of the Elephant 6 collective and the cosmopolitan chic of the Grand Royal label. His 2001 album Point refined the exuberance, but laid bare Oyamada's prog-rock affections, kraut rhythm obsession, and new age production ear for exquisite organic sound artifacts. Between then and now Cornelius has remixed in 5.1 surround sound, produced sound/film/video art installations, recorded commercials, produced a number of artists, and been raising his son Milo with his wife Takako Minekawa. His 2007 album, Sensuous, delivered its title as a new age-prog jazz aural rubdown standing firmly and proudly outside trends."  Pitchfork From rock riffs to cheesy electronics, nothing is off limits here, the |No gurgling stream of playful beats and gorgeous melodies carried along on a tide of Can's dreamy krautrock, ambient instrumental bliss and infectious '70s rock grooves." - Q Magazine Cornelius˜ 1997 album Fantasma introduced the genre-defying Japanese artist |No (Keigo Oyamada) to most of the Western world with its everything-in-a-blender style. Nearly 20 years later it still kinda sounds like it™s from the future. (Or the ™90s future some imagined Tokyo to be.)" - Brooklyn Vegan Pop Matters - https://www.popmatters.com/cornelius-mellow-waves-2495384667.html NPR Music - https://www.npr.org/2017/07/13/534316543/first-listen-cornelius-mellow-waves Pitchfork - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/cornelius-mellow-waves/ Stereogum - https://www.stereogum.com/1947016/qa-cornelius-on-his-first-lp-in-11-years-mello w-waves/franchises/interview/ OTHER ACTIVITY: http://sp.wmg.jp/cornelius/