Susumu Yokota - Sakura (Skintone Edition, Petrol Blue Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP aiaiai Across it's thirteen songs Marathon

Across it's thirteen songs Marathon doesn't shy away from difficult topics

ANIMA captures Yorke channeling contemporary dread into a vivid

the record is not bound to any particular coordinates

following the lauded 2022 "Recordings from the Åland Islands" and 2024's collaboration with Ariel Kalma

Arp drops us deep into the grid of the city

Susumu Yokota - Sakura (Skintone Edition, Petrol Blue Vinyl) Vinyl 2LP aiaiai Across it's thirteen songs MarathonSakura is without doubt the most loved and lauded entry in Susumu Yokotas catalogue. The music unravels like cascades of petals falling from the eponymous cherry blossom trees. Yokota intended to express ki do ai raku (the four emotions; joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness) through music, and throughout Sakura, the effect fluctuates between profound tranquillity, hesitation, melancholy and joy with ease, addressing the fickle nature of human emotion,