Slowly Fading - Yakamoto Kotzuga (2018)

Maybe due to inspiration or just global awareness, Yakamoto Kotzuga is the very Japanese-sounding alias for Italian composer Giacomo Mazzucato. He has several albums as well as having contributed to the music and sound design side of the fashion world.

This record is a really nice combo of downtempo energy and big atmospheric gesture. There are occasional vocals along with more common vocal-sounding synth sounds that give it a sense of lyricism that a lot of similar artists don’t have.

Heavy on groove in places, heavy on ambient cloudscape atmosphere in others. A really interesting listen.