02/26/2025

Satomimagae Announces Taba, Shares New Single + Video “Many”

“We are just one element in the collective (taba) and yet each individual’s invisible experiences and memories remain somewhere, influencing us, or society, without realizing it.”

Taba is the new album from Satomimagae; her breathtaking follow up to 2021’s Hanazono. The record marks a subtle yet surprising shift for the Japanese musician and producer. whereas Hanazono bloomed from the soil of a kind of insular, private beauty, Taba takes a bird’s eyes view, placing Satomi in a wider, wilder world.

Observing and absorbing the fleeting scenes and sounds of life flowing outside of her home studio, Satomi has turned slightly away from linear songwriting, moving towards a more circuitous sense of storytelling, backed by an expanded palette of tones and textures. Casting her eye towards the perplexing nature of the seemingly everyday, there is a sense of an impulse towards defining our increasingly alienated age.

The first signal of sound from Taba comes today with the hypnotic “Many.” Wrapped in a warped intimacy, the track arrives alongside a video directed by creative collective ON-EI [音映].

Taba is available now for pre-order in a limited edition, hand-screen printed artist edition vinyl (exclusively through RVNG), on black vinyl, Japanese import CD (via Plancha), and wherever music exists digitally.