Miaou - The Day Will Come Before Long (2011) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Electronica, from Japan
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Tracklist:

01. Notnotnot
02. Small Dream
03. Own Your Colours
04. Cycle
05. Endings (feat. epic45)
06. Up And The Sky
07. Lost Souls (feat. radical face)
08. Keep Drifting My Heart

Miaou were formed in 1999 by Tatsuki Hamasaki and sisters Mayumi and Hiromi Hasegawa. Throughout the years the band have blurred the line between pop and experimental, adopting ambient synth swells, drones and IDM glitch to craft a dreamy vision of instrumental rock.

Since the release of their debut album, ‘Happiness’ , in 2003, the band continued making new songs and touring though Japan with Art of Fighting, Epic45 and Tracer AMC. Armed with an ever increasing mountain of synths, toy instruments and a fender rhodes, the band released a second album, ‘Make These Things Alright’ , and their ‘painted’ e.p., further blurring the lines between post-rock and electronica.

After their third album, ‘All Around Us’ , came out in 2008, the band toured across Japan, into Taiwan playing the Formoz festival, as well as doing shows in Ireland and the UK. In between recording the band have contributed to Compilations in Japan and the USA, and completed remixes for the likes of Sweden’ s EF and Not Squares from the UK.

Recorded in Tokyo in the Spring of 2011, The Day Will Come Before Long sees miaou push on into more electronic territory than before – bigger synths, broken up samples and glitchy guitars. Mixed by electronic extraordinaire Cornel Wilczek (Qua) in Australia and featuring some achingly beautiful vocals from special guest singers in Ben Cooper (Electric President/Radical Face/Ghost) and Ben Holton (Epic45). Expect to hear swelling synths, crashing guitars and electronic beats making up miaou’s sonic soundscapes.

Miaou - All Around Us (2008) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Electronica
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Tracklist :

1 Promise Song
2 Morning Sun
3 Hello World
4 Always Dreaming of Things to Come
5 Tetote
6 Crumpets
7 Our Path To..
8 You Found Me
9 Hopefulness
10 Shining

Miaou were formed in 1999 by Tatsuki Hamasaki and sisters Mayumi and Hiromi Hasegawa.

Their debut album, ‘Happiness’ (Noon records, 2003), was quickly followed by a tour with Australia’s Art Of Fighting. Their 2005 release, ‘Make These Things Alright’ saw Miaou develop their sound with a wider range of instruments, and truly mark themselves with a unique style in Japan.

That same year saw a tour with Canada’s Below The Sea, with whom the band also collaborated with to record a split e.p., released on Preco Records, the label of Tokyo music store LINUS RECORDS.

2006 proved to be another busy and exciting year. Things started off with the inclusion of ‘Grasslands’ on the Where Are My Records compilation c.d., “Je T’aime”, before the band headed into the studio to record probably their most distinctive, beautiful and accomplished material to date with the painted e.p. (Thomason Sounds). The e.p. was once again recorded by toe’s Takaaki Mino, who has produced all of their material to date.

The release of the painted e.p. was followed by a Japan tour with Thomason Sounds label mates Tracer AMC from Northern Ireland, as well as the news of securing a worldwide distribution deal with Darla Records.