' Voyage ~ Collection of Chillout Edits & Sound Design ' is the first solo down tempo / ambientronica album from Japanese Electronic music producer SUPERCOZI.
Album was designed to gives you a refreshing 50 minutes of audio journey in the dark and uncertain Covid-19 time with smooth 6 newly-edit chillout songs she produced for the various projects, plus 3 Sound Designs for the short visual clips.
Location of those inspirations & recordings were the various exotic places including Bali ( Indonesia ), Nice Côte d'Azur ( France ), Andalsua (Spain), Tuscany ( Italy).
All 9 tunes were remastered by her to reach wider soundscapes and to crystallize the frequency.
As she left her home country Japan in 1999, and had been a digital nomad for 2 decades, Every tune represents certain period of her life like a cinema sound track.
Here is a little back ground story for each track....
1 - Aksara 2020 feat.Minima Sheen
Originally released in 2010 as a part of second album ' Fruits From The Future', featuring an old friend / singer Michele Adamson ( Shpongle ).
Recording was done during Michele's stay at her home in Seminyak, Bali where she spent 15 years with her ex husband and a music producer Gus Till. Adamson was also a frequent visitor of their home in Devon, UK between 2000-2002.
This new version extended original with additional sound and gave wider soundscape.
2 - Sayan Moon feat. Chika Asamoto ( 2020 extended edit )
Originally composed and released digitally in 2015 as a part of a concept album ' BIASA ~ Deep Inside The Bamboo Forest ' for Bali based resort fashion brand BIASA's new collection.
Tune featuring mesmerizing, other-worldly saxophone improvisation by a well known Japanese sax player Chika Asamoto who was also a Bali resident back then. Cozi gave this title to the tune because Asamoto lived in Ubud, a cultural centre of Bali, and Sayan is the name of a sacred valley for Balinese hindu. Asamoto also produced an experimental Jazz ambient album ' Catalpa ' in Norway with Till in 2010.
This new version extended original with additional sound and remastered with wider soundscape.
3 - Distant Sparkle
1min sound design piece for an experimental art clip by a Monaco-Nice based Romanian Photographer Iulian Giurca.
4 - Dawn
Originally composed for 1minutes promotion clip of Space Mountain Festival 2019 ( Andalusia / Spain ). You can watch the clip on www.supercozi.com/space-mountain-festival-international-cosmic-arts-lab-2019-oct-11-14/
5 - Stranger in Paradise
Originally released in 2010 as a part of a Bespoke CD ' The Villas Bali Vol. 1 '. Also featured in 2013 in a short clip by Zirbad, Freedive boat trip & life style company that operates across islands beyond Bali. Clip featured marine life images of the world renown dive spot Raja Ampat.
6 - Calabar Moon
Originally released in 2009 as a part of a Bespoke CD ' Uluwatu Experience 1 - Bulgari Hotels & Resort Bali '.
7 - Horizon, Horizon ( Paam 9 Mix )
Originally released in 2009 as a part of a Bespoke CD ' Uluwatu Experience 1 - Bulgari Hotels & Resort Bali '.
She refer the tune as her most favorite jazzy broken beat song with her own singing.
8 - Secret Garden feat.Susanna Perini ( 2020 extended edit )
Originally composed and released digitally as a part of a concept album ' BIASA ~ Deep Inside The Bamboo Forest ' in 2015 for Bali based resort fashion brand BIASA's new collection.
Featuring voice is BIASA founder / Italian expat fashion designer Susanna Perini, who also runs a contemporary Indonesian art gallery in Seminyak where Cozi collaborated as a sound curator.
This new version extended original version with additional sound and remastered with wider soundscape.
9 - Tuscany
Sound design sketch produced for her imaginary film that was formed by inspirations she captured during her travel in Tuscany / Italy in 2018.