Tomemitsu - Dream 2

Friends of Friends

£23.38

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: FOF243LP
Barcode: 4062548086713
Release Date: 27 Sep 2024
Genre: Alternative

TRACKLIST:
A1. QUICK ENOUGH
A2. DO YOU DREAM TOO?
A3. A LITTLE LIGHT (ON YOU)
A4. DREAM QUEEN
A5. LOSING MY MIND
B1. PIZZA WITH YOU
B2. HEALTH INSURANCE
B3. POCKETBOOK
B4. DO YOU KNOW?
B5. YOU MATTER TO ME

“Do you dream too?” Tomemitsu’s Martin Roark asks on his sophomore album with Friends of Friends Music out September 20, 2024. The question is also what stemmed from the album title, ‘Dream 2’, a shorthand written in the lyrics. ‘Dream 2’ is quite possibly Tomemitsu’s dreamiest LP, if not his most diverse. It is brimming with both new territory and nods to his past. This record reveals a more buoyant side to accompany his traditionally spaced out productions.

Since his 2013 release of ‘m_o_d_e_s’, Tomemitsu has combined calm with chaos to create chilled out nuggets of pop containing an ear for ambience in odes to offbeat artists from genres of all sorts. “Creators like Thelonoius Monk, Joao Gilberto, Daniel Johnston, Brian Eno, Bill Withers, Arthur Russell… they were all immediately inspiring to me. I think I’ve come to appreciate the ‘solo project’ness of tomemitsu without realizing how much i was nodding along to the loneliness of my favorite artists.” says Roark. For ‘Dream 2’, Tomemitsu also added a slew of analog and digital gear, processors and synthesizers, to his private Laveta Loca studio elevating the aural output from his hyper lo-fi origins.