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New Audio: Lycoriscoris Shares Meditative “Light Leaks”

Yunosuke Senoo, best known as Lycoriscoris is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist, electronic music artist and producer, who over the course of the past decade has firmly established a signature blend of organic melodies made with both analog and digital equipment with intricate sound design. During that same period, he has built a cult following as a part of a new wave of Japanese electronic music producers.

His debut full-length debut was released on a Japanese indie label. But since then he has released material through Anjunadeep, KOMPAKT KX and Christian Löffler‘s Ki Records. 2018’s Flight, which was released through Anjunadeep landed in the Top 4 of the iTunes Electronic Albums Chart and received airplay on BBC Radio 1, KEXP and NTS Radio, while receiving international press coverage. 2021’s 9-track Chiyu showcased Senoo’s delicate production style while receiving praise from Mixmag Asia, DJ Mag and DJ Times while receiving spins from Nick Warren, Joris Voorn, Hernán Cattáneo and Eelke Kleijn.

Senoo’s latest Lycoriscoris single “Light Leaks” is a gorgeous track that manages to be simultaneously cinematic, mediative and deeply intimate. Featuring bursts of dramatic and twinkling piano and glistening synth oscillations paired with skittering beats, “Light Leaks” evokes a sense of wonder and awe, the recognition of our smallness in an infinite cosmos, and the recognition of our mortality. Today, things are harsh, uncertain and brutally unfair but there will always be small and profound moments of beauty and joy that you must hold on to with everything you’ve got.