David Bowie - Hunky Dory Artist_EMU In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’

In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’ represents the culmination of a journey for Kikagaku Moyo

but also to channel the ghostlike qualities in old spring reverbs and loose contacts

The piano parts are composed and played by Danish musician Jakob Littauer (of Kompakt labelmates Jatoma) on an old upright piano in a studio

The album is packaged in a heavy double tip-on gatefold jacket with matte black paper

both held in March 2024

David Bowie - Hunky Dory Artist_EMU In many ways ‘Kumoyo Island’It seems hard to believe, given the career full of revolutionary and hugely influential stylistic shifts that followed, that this superb record was only David Bowie's fourth. Yet Hunky Dory ranks alongside Ziggy Stardust, Low, and Scary Monsters as one of Bowie's finest and most consistent albums. Ironically, it is one of the artist's least rock oriented efforts, bearing little relation to what came before or after in his discography. Instead, Hunky