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' And in 2020 Grimm Grimm signed to Tip Top to release his third album \"Ginormous\", which was mixed and co-produced by MPG Award-winning producer Marta Salogni. This was preceded by his support to Cate Le Bon on her six-date summer 2019 UK tour and the ten date UK and EU tour with Cate as well as playing festivals Green Man, Sonic City \u0026amp; Le Guess Who? as well as his own headline UK and EU tours. Grimm Grimm now returns with this wonderful re-issue of his sought after and long out of print debut album 'Hazy Eyes Maybe' in preparation for new music\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tip Top Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50460402975051,"sku":"2014150","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_171e302c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727231761"},{"product_id":"ginormous","title":"Ginormous","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere's more than a hint of the famous Grimm brothers' twisted fairy-tale folklore to Ginormous the third album from London-based, Tokyo-born experimentalist and former frontman of cult psychedelic-punk group Screaming Tea Party Koichi Yamanoha. 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. Joining them; avant-garde violinist Agathe Maxx, and Koichi's flatmate Paz Maddio, of postpunk trio Value Void, added her whispery vocals to In A Glass Jar and the title track. \"I choose words to create mood and I like the word 'Ginormous',\" he says. \"It's dumb and funny but expresses something big in everyday life... an object, determination, relationships, or even a chair or sausage - American sized.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tip Top Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Gold | LP","offer_id":50465144963403,"sku":"1088658","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50465144471883,"sku":"1088657","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f058e67a-2fd2-430a-a898-9b1b940494f5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727281848"},{"product_id":"cliffhanger","title":"Cliffhanger","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon-based singer-songwriter Koichi Yamanoha has been operating under the guise of Grimm Grimm since 2013. 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There are opaque, semi-conscious pop reductions like \u003ci\u003eAfraid \u003c\/i\u003eor \u003ci\u003eTake Me Down to Coney Island,\u003c\/i\u003e while other tracks state their intentions with open vulnerability. \u003ci\u003eBallad of a Cell Membrane\u003c\/i\u003e is comparable to the tenderness and fragility of Syd Barrett's later recordings, while \u003ci\u003eOrange Coloured Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDiagonal Green\u003c\/i\u003e take their queues from early Radiophonic Workshop experiments, detuned organs and gauzy field recordings awash. Indeed, at its most abstract \u003ci\u003eCliffhanger\u003c\/i\u003e is like the incidental music of a 1960's John Frankenheimer thriller, yet there are also touching and expansive minimal acoustic ballads included here. \u003ci\u003eStill Smiling, Final World War\u003c\/i\u003e and Yamanoha's cover of The Misfit's \u003ci\u003eHybrid Moments\u003c\/i\u003e particular successes on an LP which is both nostalgic and challenging in equal measure. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Some Other Planet Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50471750336843,"sku":"1041233","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/483dc709-b84e-4463-90e6-fc31601e9d80_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727411430"},{"product_id":"untitled-ii-1","title":"Untitled II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eUntitled II\u003c\/em\u003e is a sound collage blending grainy field recordings with demo tracks from a 4-channel cassette recorder. 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