OK, quick review lesson about the projects of Nobuyuki Sakuma, who records music as Jesse Ruins and Nites: Jesse Ruins – A duo on record and a trio live. Signed to Captured Tracks, an American label. Makes dark, moody songs as a band, featuring vocals courtesy of a singer. Nites – A solo project, also…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjc5x9h_Q4g”] A lot has changed for Tokyo’s CUZ ME PAIN label since they released their first compilation a few years back. AAPS called it a day, Jesse Ruins grabbed some blog love and got picked up by Captured Tracks, Lovers In The Wind remain a complete mystery and Melancholic Masculinity just goes by Masculin now….
Lots of music news happened last week, and fitting all into normal posting hours turned out to be tough. So, here we are, with some quick hits we didn’t get around to. Let’s catch up, shall we? – Not content with releasing a free EP of original work, CUZ ME PAIN’s Nites project went and…
Only a few days into 2012 and already we have a great release on the board. CUZ ME PAIN artist Nites, which is the alter ego of recent Captured Tracks signing Jesse Ruins, dropped a free EP onto Bandcamp today. Carcass Of The Sun collects a couple of older Nites tunes alongside what appear to…
Beyond being a great and off-the-beaten-path remix of an already lovely tune, Nites fog-machine reworking of Moscow Club’s “Daisy Miller” also outlines everything exciting about the CUZ ME PAIN-ers work. The M83 influence lingers around the whole song – those organ notes at the beginning especially bring to mind “In Church” – and how Nites…