Mu Project - Asia Dream LP

Much like Hosono’s “sightseeing music” means of musical travel & syncretization, Mu Project’s “Asia Dream” combines musical tradition and scales of East Asian music culture with new-wave pop and futuristic electronic music production techniques. The result is a beautiful manifestation of Kuniyoshi & Toba’s dream of Asia - a surreal dream where regional pastoral folk traditions collide with drum machines and synthesized traditional instruments, polyrhythms and chanting take the form of a left-field new-wave composition, and nostalgic melodies enshroud gorgeous pop songs in a lush fog. “Asia Dream” is somewhat like a neo-futurist summer matsuri festival in Japan that evokes the melodies and production of Mariah’s “Utakata no Hibi” and the beautifully produced mysterious pastoral works on Aragon’s 1985 self-titled album - all of which sought to push traditional Japanese melodies into the future with the help of computer programming and the fantastic studio technology developments of the time.

We are very excited for new label Granit’s reissue of “Asia Dream” - a work of outstanding production and sophisticated pop sensibilities by anime & video game music composer Ryoichi Kuniyoshi and engineer Kiyoshi Toba. Featuring computer programming by Hideki Matsutake (YMO), synthesizer work by Keishi Urata (Aragon), and percussive work by Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami - Mu Project’s “Asia Dream” was produced with some of the finest studio engineers of its time, paving the way for the gorgeous, airy production present throughout the album.