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Built around recordings by the acclaimed pedal steel player Henry Senior, the album's six hypnotic and enveloping tracks are supplemented with piano, strings, synths and field recordings performed by Wallis.The making of the album took an unplanned route. During the winter 2021 lockdown, Wallis began work on an album of more conventional songs, sending several to Henry Senior (Danny and The Champions Of The World, Honey Harper) to record pedal steel parts remotely. Though subsequently deciding to shelve the album, he realised that Senior's pedal steel outlines of the songs formed the basis of something completely different.The result is an immersive, meticulously crafted album that recalls the ambient pedal steel work of Chuck Johnson and Daniel Lanois mixed with the ethereal post- classical instrumentation of Stars Of The Lid and the field recording work of Claire Rousay.\u003ci\u003eIn Huge Gesturing Loops\u003c\/i\u003e is Wallis' fourth release in as many years. 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Recalling a childhood with Humpty Dumpty and Mother Goose by his side, his latest offering marks the next chapter in a trilogy of self-discovery; a compendium of sonically astute storytelling where nightmares and dreams meet via French yé-yé and Casio beats. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I always wanted to write an album that sounds like a funeral and a wedding at the same time,\" Koichi says of the happy-sad tales extracted from the phantasmagoria of his Grimm Grimm alias' consciousness. \"I wanted to create something intimate and each album is like a different road trip I've taken; all with exit doors leading to the next story. It is like a warning letter to the older and younger version of me.\" An outlet for his fragile, haunted, otherworldly forays into baroque folk, futurist lyricism and electro-acoustic oddities, stories have always shaped Koichi's world. Whether channelling the wonder of nursery rhymes from his youth to megalophobic thoughts of monolithic objects, Ginormous turns to the next page of Koichi's sonic journey so far; its lyrics and melodies culled from the notes on his phone whilst travelling alone on trains across Europe. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album was recorded in his room at home and Total Refreshment Centre in North\/East London, Koichi enlisted award-winning producer Marta Salogni (Bjork, The Orielles) and Capital K's Kristian Craig Robinson. Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier vocals feature on The Ghost of Madame Legros, Sophie Lowe of Peluché played clarinet, and violin whilst Pete Baker and Monchan of Bo Ningen provided additional drums. 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