Hinako Omori released her debut album ‘A Journey’ last year, filled with layered collages of ambient sound. Last month she returned with the first track from it, ‘In Full Bloom’, which heralded the development of her experimentation on that earlier record into something more song based. Extending that new body of work further, she has now released new single ‘Foundation’.
“‘Foundation’ is a letter to ourselves on trusting our intuition and inner guidance to lead us along our unique paths”, she says. “The object on the cover artwork – cyanotype printed and designed by Emi Takahashi – is a trick lock which I found at a Japanese antique store. It’s an old padlock for a kura, which is a traditional storehouse where you would keep your most valuable possessions”.
“I thought it could be a fitting metaphor for the song, where the ‘kura’ represents our mind”, she adds, “and how the only things that block us from working through our stuck points are the tricks and barriers we place on ourselves, and our own inhibitions”.
More new music from Omori is set for release over the course of this year. She’s also announced a headline show at the ICA in London on 2 Dec.
Listen to ‘Foundation’ here:
