Darla Records

“how are you? I’m asuna.” such a simple thought can say more then an essay on asuna but let me try anyways.

asuna is from nagoya japan originally. now lives in ishikawa, away from the hussle and noise of the cities of japan. since 1999 he has been making experimental music, when he first fell in love with the reed organ. since then he has released CDs for such labels as Lucky Kitchen, Apestaartje, Autumn Records, and/OAR, Spekk, and Power Shovel Audio etc.

now music related is very happy to releases his CD “flowers”. composed of songs about flowers. fields recordings, cellphone beeps, ambient drones, and lo-fi pop styles meet in asuna’s one of a kind style. flowers starts with digital static, and cut and chopped toy drum machine beats. an invasion of modern life before smoothing out into a trip through the warm side, and escapist dreams of the small town japan and the country. the digital attacks, much like the blaring streets of modern japan, now gone. it’s field trip through the parks, and country with asuna as your tour guide.

“An oddly pretty and strangely inviting album; sort of spooky, but in a way that a childhood memory can be spooky. A record which feels almost unintentionally overheard.” - Ezekiel Honig

Tracks:
1. Rainy Garden
2. Dandelion
3. Catnip Of A White Rose
4. South Orchid
5. Courtyard in Junier Highschool
6. Blue Daisy
7. Forget Me Not
8. Cut Loqut Tree
9. Utrecht
10. Holland Garden
11. Clover
12. Tulip