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19 Jan 2013

NEW RELEASE! okamotonoriaki's long-awaited 2nd album!

"A Little Planet" by okamotonoriaki

Beautiful piano notes, exquisite melody lines, layer after layer of masterfully crafted beats. Featuring collaboration with Cokiyu, and mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama. Coming out on 24th of Jan, 2013. Check out this wonderfully melodic album >here<.

19 Dec 2012

2012 Top 10 Electronic by A Closer Listen.

"For Your Home Or Office" by Park Avenue Music

"For Your Home Or Office" by Park Avenue Music has been selected as one of the Top 10 Electronic Albums of 2012 by the amazing music webzine A CLoser Listen! Read the full article >here<, and check out this gorgeous album >here<.

1 Aug 2012

The perfect soundtrack to what happens after the sun sinks.

"For Your Home Or Office" by Park Avenue Music

Baths (anticon label): "....a great balance of dense electronic sound and gentle, spacious melody. Park Avenue Music created a beautiful atmosphere on their original tracks...". Reissue of the critically acclaimed album by Park Avenue Music, with gorgeous exclusive remixes. Coming out this summer, on September 6th. Check out this stunning album >here<.

26 Sep 2011

The soundtrack for your autumn and winter!

"Unspoken Words" by Hior Chronik

Hauschka: ""Unspoken Words" by Hior Chronik is music for late night car rides and in its own beauty it is definitely a part of my soundtrack for this year autumn and dark winter times." Check out this stunning autumn/winter soundtrack >here<.

7 July 2011

mü-nest is now part of the NATURE BLISS family!

And we're thrilled of it :D

We are very proud to announce that, mü-nest has joined the amazing NATURE BLISS family from Japan, who operates legendary labels like Plop, Spekk, and many more, and become one of its family labels! All future releases by mü-nest will be carefully handled and published under the NATURE BLISS umbrella. With the strong support from NATURE BLISS, we will be putting out even more beautiful releases for your listening pleasure! So keep the love coming in :) Check out NATURE BLISS >here<.

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<i>"...immersive and lovingly crafted electronic beats mixed with a kind of pastoral and human melodic bent and more than a handful of crystalline melodies. It’s very difficult not to like." </i><br>
-- 5 stars rating by <b>Norman Records (UK)</b> 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc013">full release info</a></div>

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content-title := For Yor Home Or Office
content-subtitle := Wes Steed and Jeannette Faith have crafted an homage to the after-hours.
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mü-nest presents, the 12th release of the label, the reissue of the splendid electronic noise pop album by Park Avenue Music, with bonus remix tracks by some of the finest remixers around the world, including Ametsub, aus, Geskia!,  Hior Chronik, Poplamb, Yoshinori Takezawa, Lorin Sylvester Strohm. Welcome to the shadowlands…  
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc012">full release info</a></div>

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content-subtitle := Welcome to Hior Chronik's world of melancholy.
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mü-nest is pleased to present you, 'Unspoken Words', the new album from Greek artist Hior Chronik, an album that in so many generous expressions, communicates a work that is both memorable and soulful. Eliciting the contributions from Roger Doering (of Dictaphone), Takeshi Nishimoto (of I’m Not A Gun), Akira Kosemura (Schole label) and many more, they only further accentuate and give warmth to their surroundings, through exceptional arrangement, and open-hearted composition. 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc011">full release info</a></div>

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content-subtitle := Our Little Prayers (for Japan) is a show of support to the Japanese people.
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Featuring new compositions and previously unreleased tracks from some of the region’s best electro-acoustic, ambient-pop and post-rock musicians, Our Little Prayers (for Japan) represents the collective sounds of our region, expressing what we feel for Japan in the depths of our hearts with the most honest, simple, subtle but endearing sonic ventures. These are our little prayers to Japan - from an Asian, to an Asian. 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc010-1">full release info</a></div>

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content-title := Sonorité
content-subtitle := mü-nest x PLOP special collaboration series vol. 3: <br>"Sonorité" by Teruyuki Nobuchika.
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The 10th release from mü-nest is the 2nd solo album by Kyoto-based composer Teruyuki Nobuchika, "Sonorité" - a classical and yet contemporary piano solo suite that explores the endless possibilities of piano. For the fans of Goldmund, Johann Johannsson, Hauschka, and Akira Kosemura. 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc010">full release info</a></div>

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content-title := Earthrise 2064
content-subtitle := mü-nest x PLOP special collaboration series vol. 2: <br>"Earthrise 2064" by Kyo Ichinose.
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mü-nest is proud to present its ninth release, the stunningly beautiful album by Kyo Ichinose, "Earthrise 2064".  Hugely inspired by the Romatic Age icon William Blake, this contemporary music masterpiece brings you into a high-purity musical journey, with a vision of seeing our earth from the universe's perspective. This is romanticism at its best!
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc009">full release info</a></div>

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Peking Scene, is written by me:mo as a gentle elegy specifically dedicated to the gone-but-unforgettable city of Peking. This exquisite 11-tracks album is full of nostalgic mood that float with remembrance and warm memories of the old days of the city, which still quietly live within the delicate and beautiful music of me:mo. This is the 8th release by mü-nest.    
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc008">full release info</a></div>

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content-subtitle := Tokyo audio-visual artist okamotonoriaki brings forth a musical visual-scape in the vein of celebrated electronica mastery and sensitivity.  
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mü-nest is delighted to have Tokyo-based audio-visual artist okamotonoriaki joining our expanding roster. His debut album Telescope, which is the seventh release of mü-nest label, welcomes us to his cinematic sonic world, an imagery-filled, delicately sound-driven, pop-infused electronica soundtrack. Mastered by naph, and only limited to 400 copies, with the first 100 copies come with an extra DVD-R containing 3 exclusive videos. Grab one while you still can! 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc007">full release info</a></div>

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As the sixth release of mü-nest label, The Fabric, presents [Post-foetus] (Will Wiesenfeld)’s multi-instrument compositional ingenuity in its gorgeous splendor.
<p>Layers of beautiful viola, piano, upright bass and guitar melodies composed faultlessly with playful electronic percussions, sampled voices, ambient sounds, and delicate, dreamy vocals, weaving a sonic tapestry of genuine emotional beauty. 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc006">full release info</a></div>

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As the fifth release of the label, mü-nest proudly presents you Tokyo-based electro-acoustic duo, starke, debut album: "a letter from yesterday", a beautiful and melodic documentation of inner peacefulness, the encircling captivation of the undisturbed, and pleasant moments of everyday life.
<p>starke is formed by 2 wonderfully gifted artists, Shunichiro Fujimoto (FJORDNE) and Yushi Mori (ミーティア気象台, Å, Under Groove).

<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc005">full release info</a></div>

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content-subtitle := Infusing the original beauty with renewed sensibility.
content-text := mü-nest presents you the fourth release of the label: the incredibly sublime remix project compilation, "in this nest, we found our winged tale". 
10 electro-musical accolades, paired into 5 groups, with each pair performing a cross remix of each other’s works between them, like wizards exchanging spells of enchanting wonder, and infusing the original beauty with renewed sensibility. Featuring exquisite remixes by haruka nakamura, aus, flica, aspidistrafly and more!

<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc004">full release info</a></div>

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content-text := mü-nest is proud to bring you the third release from the label: “weekend” - the entrancing and beautiful debut album by rist, an eclectic electro-acoustic female duo of a German and a Japanese .
<p>“weekend” showcases 10 tracks of ethereally entrancing music that merge heart-warming musical prowess with a delicate, captivating sensibility. For the fans of März, The Books and Greg Davis! 
<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc003">full release info</a></div>

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content-subtitle := A collection of skillfully controlled heart-felt expressions, creating a sense of serenity that bridges dreams with reality.
content-text := As the debut album of flica, "windvane and window" captures the artist's impeccable ability to balance simple playful musical creativity with subtle, honest emotional depths, combining youthful pop sensibilities with matured artistry. Each track intricately weaves a subtle beauty that works its way to a refrained but magically spell-binding crescendo softly fluctuating to the sweetest and truest human touches. Another beautiful release by mü-nest.

<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc002">full release info</a></div>

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content-text := mü-nest proudly presents its debut release: “We Are All Cotton-Hearted” VA compilation, a double-CD album of futuristic electro-acoustic sounds with a gorgeous easy-listening twist imbued with unconventional pop sensibilities, by showcasing 25 splendid tracks by 25 exceptionally talented indie artists from Japan, US, Europe, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

<p><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="release-info.php?f=mnc001">full release info</a></div>