Planet Q by Kyoko Takenaka + Tomoki Sanders

To explore and absorb Planet Q, the new record by artists Kyoko Takenaka + Tomoki Sanders, is to become untethered from structural expectations, to reside in a realm where genre vanishes and a profound musical space remains, where the absence of gravity causes curious things to occur.

It’s a spot where handclaps may not move in time, where sonic gurgles of unknown origin offer texture, where a deep, hooky rhythm can propel a groove into the stratosphere.

At various times the tracks move like Dilla pieces, at others like Terry Riley explorations, like Flying Lotus or Milford Graves or Alice Coltrane meditations. But every time you think you’ve got the sound figured out, it hits from another angle. Though a brief missive at 30 minutes, you exit Planet Q as if leaving an utterly alien spot.

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Kyoko Takenaka and Tomoki Sanders have come together to create PLANET Q - a record that serves as an auditory home for these two artists from the Japanese diaspora. Through their prominent influences of Jazz, Japanese Folk, Ambient, and Butoh dance, the two have created a new sound that explores the meaning of in-between.