Luka Uemura Appears On New Childrenplay Records Split, Featuring Affable Noise And Michael Oldham

Arbor Vitae, a new split album featuring Osaka’s own Luka Uemura alongside a handful of other artists, can be purchased as an immediate download…AND, if you act quickly enough (first 30) you can also get a “wooden branch USB” version of the album delivered to your home. This nice item (I can picture the Rainforest…

Affable Noise And Luka Uemura: “If She Had Waved Back”

This isn’t the first time Osaka’s Luka Uemura has teamed up with the artist Affable Noise…back in May, the two teamed up to record a brief album of improvisations which you can hear this way. Now here they are, together again, presenting the world with a lovely late-August present mysteriously titled “If She Had Waved…

New Luka Uemura: EP/3

Talk about bad timing – I wrote about electro-dude Luka Uemura on May 3, bookmarking his Bandcamp page and assuming he wouldn’t post any new stuff for a while. Two days later, he uploaded EP/3, an ambient-focused release. I’m just now noticing it, but it still deserves some attention. On the previously noted EP/2, Uemura…

From The Deeper Corners: Luka Uemura’s EP/2

The recent slide into insignificance suffered by MySpace caused a joyful yelp from the Internet masses, happy to see retina-frying page design and “Tom” become things of the past. Though the death of a million sparkle-encrusted banners does improve the overall quality of the Internet ever so slightly, MySpace’s sink into irrelevance does signal a…