[.que] - Wonderland Artist_House Of Pain

[.que] - Wonderland Artist_House Of Pain[. que] is the solo project of multi instrumentalist Nao Kakimoto, based in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2010 he has released seven albums, one EP and three singles on labels such as Schole, IntroDuCing! and his own Embrace. He has also composed music for many film movies, television commercials, websites and exhibitions. Wonderland is his eighth full length album. Its a concept album of ten tracks based on ideas that started taking shape when Kakimoto

in part or in whole

his adolescent obsession with American pop culture informed his early forays into country music

performance art and human nature

"Kuni" on Brooklyn-based Bastard Jazz Recordings

— an ensemble of players she founded in 2016 and whose collective talents she knows through and through

Drain You) are its lifeblood

This record is one of Mayfield's strongest - a bold

which ruled that it could only be used in cocktail lounges if the keyboardist was paid the wages of three musicians

gauzy synthesizer soundscapes and created collaboratively in the spirit of the New Age composers who sanded off the edges of their synths’ sawtooth

But still its not music for beautiful souls

and spoke publicly about mental health issues that prompted his closing off to the world

) is one of the most underrated fusion albums to come out of Japan