THE KYOTO CONNECTION - THE FLOWER, THE BIRD AND THE MOUNTAINFormat : 12" Label : Temples of Jura Catalog # : TEMPLELP 002 Genre : Ambient During the late 2010s, music lovers around the world began obsessively listening to increasingly esoteric albums on Youtube. More often than not, theyd leave the browser on autoplay. This was how Facundo Arena, the composer and producer behind The Kyoto Connection, discovered the technonaturalistic pleasures of Kanky Ongaku (environmental music), a distinctly Japanese

bringing a cosmic feel while the all-important bassline powers things forward

The flipside gets treated to more colours

Music of mixture

omitting the sax completely in favor of delayed drum dynamics

percussions

Transposing dusty Goan beaches into the abandoned warehouses of post-industrial Europe

Ryo Fukui was a genius in his own right

Travel and collaboration is key to his work

Time to freshen up

“Ventre Unique”

a jazzy house journey that ebbs and flows through fluttering flute melodies

as a reward for his favours