Opening a long-awaited new chapter on Eat Your Own Ears Recordings, Cornelius returns with his first new music in years, a cover of Yumenemi (or “Yume Ne Mi”), originally released in 1989 by one of Japan’s most iconic singer-songwriters, Yosui Inoue, and remains cult Balearic classic. The new track arrives following a recent resurgence of interest in his work, including a viral TikTok moment and a nod from Rosalía, who featured “Typewrite Lesson”, originally a b-side from Cornelius’s iconic 1997 album Fantasma, in her Met Gala–themed Vogue playlist of all-time favorites.
Reimagined through Cornelius’s singular lens, the track marries his signature collage-like production, intricate rhythmic detail and soft-focus electronics with a lilting tropicalia inflection, for a swirling, heady track befitting of it’s title, which roughly translates to “dreaming”.
Cornelius is the musical project of Japanese multi-instrumentalist Keigo Oyamada, whom previously released the 2023 LP Dream in Dream, which followed bizarre scandal that prompted his exit from the Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony, after an old interview was unearthed in which he apologized for bullying people with disabilities as a child. Yumenemi marks the start of a long-awaited new body of work, set to unfold over the coming months. Check it out below.
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