Satomimagae - Taba (2025) [Hi-Res]

"Taba" is the voice of subtle yet surprising change for Japanese musician and producer Satomimagae. Observing and recording the fleeting scenes and sounds of life outside her home studio, "Taba" unfolds as a series of vignettes documenting the personal and the universal.

Satomi sings beyond herself, in an orbit of souls and systems known and unknown, seen and unseen, in the present and in the strange flow of memory, leaving linear songwriting alone for circuitous stories that expand and extend in sound and texture. Following the logic of taba, a Japanese term for a heap, bundle or grouping of different things, the album is structured like a loose collection of short stories. Transforming herself into a kind of poet-narrator, Satomi casts her writerly eye on the often confusing forms that emerge from everyday events and encounters that define our increasingly alienated age.



Tracklist:
1 Ishi
2 Many
3 Tonbo
4 Horo Horo
5 Mushi Dance
6 Spells
7 Nami
8 Wakaranai
9 Dottsu
10 Kodama
11 Tent
12 Metallic Gold
13 Omajinai
14 Ghost