07/08/2026
In July we brought our Sonic Minds project, developed in partnership with Wonderfruit festival, to Europe, with a series of live performances, talks, and playback events.
Starting with a listening and talk event at Spiritland in London focused on Japanese ambient music, we then gave a well received European premiere of Music for Rest Rooms to a full house at Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room, accompanied with visuals from Hiraki Sawa, and two days later again performed it in the incredible architecture of Brighton’s oldest building - Saint Nicholas’ Church - which resonated and responded to the music to give an incredible sense of space and scale. We also performed selections from Yumiko’s landmark 1987 album Resonance, live in Europe for the first time.
A talk at Japan House London shared our live video of Music for Restrooms at Wonderfruit’s immersive Enfold stage – and explored Yumiko Morioka’s life in music and amazing stories of life as a musician hanging out with YMO in the bubble era, creating a now-legendary but at the time overlooked ambient album, and her eventual return to ambient music, remembered through her self deprecating and humble sense of humour made for a really special evening.
KEF Music Gallery in central London’s listening room celebrated Music for Rest Rooms with a discussion on the process of making the piece, and intimate playback via their immersive system and high fidelity speakers.
Then, we were able to share the music in Berlin’s Reethaus - a stunning purpose-built listening experience room, with a specially-spatialised mix supported by MONOM , presented all-day long to a sell-out audience of nearly 600 people.
Many thanks to everyone who supported us, attended the events, and listened to our music.
Music for Rest Rooms is now in the process of being prepared for release, and in the meantime, we are brewing away with new projects with Sonic Minds and with Yumiko.
