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I Want To Be

by Tomu DJ

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    For digital purchase: tomu.bandcamp.com/album/i-want-to-be

    Tomu DJ’s debut on CST Imprint shares ten atmospheric wistful ruminations on being, living, and the spiritual undercurrents that alchemize these experiences into song. Hazy memories recalled through glitchy lush lullabies, moving through whispered skittery percussive states into warm melodic vocal confessions. Playful yet exacting productions ebb and flow between pensive indietronica pop interspersed with blissful club tracks that swing from ambient, drum and bass, breaks and house for the dancers. A sanguine daydream, to be free.

    Shipping around 12/26, available in-person at CST on 12/20.

    Includes unlimited streaming of I Want To Be via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.
    ships out within 5 days
    edition of 200 
    Purchasable with gift card

      $25 USD or more 

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card
    Download available in 24-bit/44.1kHz.

      $999 USD  or more

     

1.
Pretty 02:29
2.
Flowers 02:42
3.
Tortfeasor 02:48
4.
The Truth 02:30
5.
Distant Memory 01:48
6.
Empathy Machine 03:35
7.
Window 03:07
8.
Close 07:33
9.
New Groove 03:41
10.
Haters Can Be Mad 03:18

about

“The story of my life doesn’t exist. Does not exist. There’s never any center to it. No path, no line. There are great spaces where you pretend there used to be someone, but it’s not true, there was no one. The story of one small part of my youth I’ve already written, more or less—I mean, enough to give a glimpse of it. Of this part, I mean, the part about the crossing of the river. What I’m doing now is both different and the same. Before, I spoke of clear periods, those on which the light fell. Now I’m talking about the hidden stretches of that same youth, of certain facts, feelings, events that I buried. I started to write in surroundings that drove me to reticence. Writing, for those people, was still something moral. Nowadays it often seems writing is nothing at all. Sometimes I realize that if writing isn’t, all things, all contraries confounded, a quest for vanity and void, it’s nothing. That if it’s not, each time, all things confounded into one through some inexpressible essence, then writing is nothing but advertisement. But usually I have no opinion, I can see that all options are open now, that there seem to be no more barriers, that writing seems at a loss for somewhere to hide, to be written, to be read. That its basic unseemliness is no longer accepted. But at that point I stop thinking about it.”

credits

released December 9, 2024

Album Art: Andrew Kodama
Written, performed and produced by Tomu Tomu (BMI), except:

"Flowers"
Lyrics and vocals by Eric Wang

"Tortfeasor"
Lyrics and vocals by Petty Getty
Drums by Lien Do
Additional production by Lien Do and Statice

"Empathy Machine"
Lead synthesizer by Devin S.G.
Cello by Jason Du
Additional engineering by Lien Do

"Window"
Lyrics and lead vocals by Eric Wang
Backing vocals by Angela Song

"Close"
Lyrics and vocals by Nore Genesis

"New Groove"
Lyrics and vocals by Eric Wang

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Cone Shape Top Imprint Oakland, California

Cone Shape Top is a specialty shoppe / project space highlighting underground culture founded in 2017.

2024 marks the birth of its label, CST Imprint.

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