Name: Ginormous
Brand: Grimm Grimm

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TIPT034

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-02-28

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5024545877120

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5024545876215

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Grimm Grimm

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Psychedelic

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Tip Top Recordings

There'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. 

"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. 

The 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."

Ginormous

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