Pale Cocoon – 繭 = Mayu

Portland’s Incidental Music in collaboration with Tokyo’s Conatala Records (connected to the great Pianola Records) presented this music blog favorite for the first time since its mysterious 1984 limited cassette release. 繭 – which translates to “Cocoon” – is the sole revelatory and hazy dream pop album by Pale Cocoon, a duo of Japanese sound hunters who set out to construct a new kind of immersive music. Drawing from “Kankyo Ongaku” style environmental ambient as a base, the group took cues from Belgian symbolist art and Japanese literature and filtered those ideas through a dynamic range of instruments, such as drum machines, tape loops, hazy synths and heavily treated shimmering guitar, to create an enveloping sea of sound. Highly recommended for fans of Les Rallizes Dénudés, Woo, Durutti Column, and My Bloody Valentine. One of our favorite reissues of 2020, 繭 = Mayu was recently repressed and is available once again via conatala records.

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