{"title":"Mikado Koko","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"acts-of-love-songs-to-our-other-selves","title":"Acts of Love \/ Songs to Our Other Selves","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaliban Sounds in association with One Little Independent Records are delighted to present a 180g heavy weight double vinyl, in a gatefold sleeve; Penny Rimbaud’s \u003ci\u003eActs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e (1984) accompanied by Mikado Koko’s \u003ci\u003eSongs To Our Other Selves\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). It’s presented with the ‘Acts of Love’ 32-page booklet and ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’ insert. The latter available on vinyl for the first time, these collector’s items are limited to only 1000 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Having in 1977 co-founded the anarchist band Crass, by 1984 Rimbaud felt he needed to explain both the political and personal roots of what increasingly was being seen by press and public alike as the band’s “violent anger”.  However, in this respect Rimbaud had always concurred with Che Guevara who had stated that “the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love”. What better, then, than to return to \u003ci\u003eActs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, to be presented this time as a 12” vinyl.  Rimbaud would compose the music to feature Eve Libertine on vocals and Paul Ellis on keyboards. Meanwhile, Vaucher set about creating a new set of illustrations to accompany the poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In 2021, avant-garde musician and artist, Mikado Koko, being a keen admirer of Libertine’s vocals, and having a great fondness for \u003ci\u003eActs of Love\u003c\/i\u003e, contacted Rimbaud with the idea of creating cut-ups of twenty tracks from the album to create a sister release entitled \u003ci\u003eSongs To Our Other Selves\u003c\/i\u003e. When finally he heard the result, he was overjoyed and the album was released in 2022 on Caliban Sounds. Sean Worrall wrote in The Organ, “Mikado Koko has taken Penny Rimbaud’s album ‘Acts of Love’, originally a fifty track album of short poems on love, and cut it up, deconstructed it, reconstructed it, pulled it apart and put it all back together (a lot more than just remixed it) to make a twenty track album of her own. ‘Songs To Our Other Selves’ is an entirely new album, that we’re told that, and rightly so, we should view as a continuation of the original. What we have here are bites, stabs, thrusts of Crass-like noise, art, the art of noise. It is hard-boiled, it is challenging, it might be madness or maybe maddening, the whole thing is glorious actually. Those bites of words, the cut and paste deconstruction, the thrust, words caught, the art of collage, the real art of glorious noise, painting with sound”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caliban","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":50393704268107,"sku":"2050412","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/thtPqFIN_a0654f65_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726424133"},{"product_id":"pianoinacage-2","title":"Pianoinacage","description":"\u003cp\u003eJapanese outsider avant-gardist, poet and producer, Mikado Koko releases\u003ci\u003e Pianoinacage\u003c\/i\u003e via Caliban Sounds. \u003ci\u003ePianoinacage\u003c\/i\u003e is a solo piano work from a progressive artist returning to the traditional. Koko tells us, “I like anarcho-punk and avant-garde music, but now I feel that beautiful piano music is more radical than that. I am deeply influenced by Erik Satie’s rebelliousness. His compositions are more than just beautiful.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Through minimal, emotive compositions, and with a technical proficiency, Koko mines nostalgic melodies that in their own way challenge the status quo. She’s looking back in order to move forward, while crafting serene and tender pieces that reward a meditative listen. \u003ci\u003ePianoinacage \u003c\/i\u003econtains melancholic, contemplative instrumentation and tender keys designed for the listener to lose themselves in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50399288754507,"sku":"2176195","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/PIANOINACAGE_Packshot_3000x3000-scaled_a4028d25_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726504032"},{"product_id":"maza-gusu","title":"Maza Gusu","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eMaza Gusu\u003c\/i\u003e, Mikado Koko transforms into Mother Goose, hissing Charles Perrault's fairy tales from her native tongue in your ears. Her unsettling, regressive voice is backed up by a subtle and chilling electronic soundscape sprinkled with traditional Japanese instruments, creating a realm of sound that feels both weirdly familiar and deeply unknown. Mother Koko hurls you deep down the rabbit hole, back to your darkest childhood anguishes, before gently leading you by the hand to a joyful catharsis. As you slowly get used to its disturbing familiarity, Koko’s music feels like waking up in the pale morning light, shaky but relieved after a feverish dream. In summer 2017 Mikado Koko started her solo career as a club music producer with the elements of Japanese traditional music. After many releases, remixes and compilations such as Seitō: In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun (AKU1016), she now focuses on avant-garde poetry reading related to feminism and gender equality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akuphone","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50505424142667,"sku":"1130276","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c75a863e-f27d-4dc0-94be-97f6faf58975_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727814351"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/mikado-koko.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}