On ‘Kofū’, Meitei masterfully closes his trilogy of lost Japanese moods with an engaging interrogation of artforms and aesthetics as a provocation — or, as fashioned in the album’s subtitle, a “satire of old Japanese aesthetics”. Each entry’s distinct flavour has earned Meitei acclaim for conjuring a bygone culture through his transportive form of ambient music. ‘Kofū’ arrives as a deconstruction of this approach. His first release with KITCHEN. LABEL, Meitei has quietly defied expectations set by his previous two albums, while continuing to challenge modern notions of Japanese sounds.

• A1 Kintsugi
• A2 Man'yō
• A3 Oiran I
• A4 Sadayakko
• A5 En'nichi
• A6 Nyōbō
• A7 Urameshi-ya
• B1 Oiran II
• B2 Otojirō
• B3 Shōnen
• B4 Kyōshū
• B5 Gen'ei
• B6 Sūki