Selected by KOM_I
Half of my groove is made up of records I think fit Shinjuku in some way, and the other half I feel can likely tune listeners in to out-of-the-ordinary places. Hotels give me the feeling as if I’m in a kind of bubble, isolated from my everyday life and the fact that I’m staying in that city. So, I chose music that would enable guests to connect to spheres further beyond this extraordinary space.
To me the groove in a record looks like both a fingerprint and the back streets of the city, so I feel there’s a kind of analogue between them. Memories are impressed in those streets and all kinds of images arise in your mind when you walk through them, just like how sound flows from recordings imprinted in the grooves of a record when the needle runs along it.
KOM_I
KOM_I was the first vocalist for music unit Wednesday Campanella. She carries out artistic activities using primarily her voice and body. Her influences include Japanese folk entertainment and North Indian classical music. Her main works include "YAKUSHIMA TREASURE", an album inspired by Yakushima Island that she made with OORUTAICHI; “A Dream Nests in Ishimuro Tumulus ,” a performance at the Ishibutai Tumulus in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture; and a solo performance of Christian Marclay’s graphic score “No!” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. She founded HYPE FREE WATER, an association that studies and promotes issues related to water, with a visual artist Minori Murata. Her appearances as an actress include NHK’s "Ame no Hi-Our Rainy Days" and Netflix’s "FOLLOWERS". She announced her pregnancy in 2023 and is currently working on a documentary with the father of her yet to be born child, director Akimi Ota.
