Kodomo
Kodomo is the electronic music project of Chris Child, based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in Tokyo in the 80's, Chris studied classical piano music while being exposed to early synth bands like YMO and Kraftwerk, all of which had a major impact on the music he creates. He took the moniker Kodomo from his last name, meaning "Child" in Japanese.
Kodomo's music is vibrant and moody, featuring lurking atmospheres, serene, drowsy melodies, vocal slices, intricate rhythms, and thick bass sounds. Read Full BioKodomo is the electronic music project of Chris Child, based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in Tokyo in the 80's, Chris studied classical piano music while being exposed to early synth bands like YMO and Kraftwerk, all of which had a major impact on the music he creates. He took the moniker Kodomo from his last name, meaning "Child" in Japanese.
Kodomo's music is vibrant and moody, featuring lurking atmospheres, serene, drowsy melodies, vocal slices, intricate rhythms, and thick bass sounds. There are many influences to his craft, keeping his sound fresh, distinct and evolving. Classic 90's electronic IDM, dirty hip-hop beats, warm detuned 80's synths, and glitchy soundscapes all make their way into his music, creating a compelling retro-contemporary hybrid.
Kodomo's first official track “Spira Mirabilis” is an epic electro driven journey inspired by the Fibonacci series, which he used to govern the structure of the piece. It was produced in 2003 and released in 2007.
His debut album, Still Life, was released in 2008 on NYC's label 5 Point Records. The album was born out of a series of carefully curated photographs and explored how the images evoke rhythms, melodies, and textures. The album has an overall downtempo and chillwave feel, integrating hip-hop beats with nostalgic synth hooks. The album gained momentum online, with the success from the single Concept 11 leading to an EP, featuring remixes by Jordan Lieb of Black Light Smoke, and Taylor Deupree, founder of The 12k Label.
His second album, Frozen In Motion, was released in 2011 and took on a harder Electro/IDM direction with songs like “Decoder”, and the title track “Frozen In Motion”. The record focused on Kodomo’s obsession with field recordings of ordinary sounds from every day life and examined using them in the context of composed music. The album gained international attention and is heavily played on the NPR radio, Pandora, and last.fm. It was well received among critics, generating reviews and interviews among several music magazines including Death And Taxes and the UK's Milkfactory. Three singles were released along with remixes by Shigeto, Drift Static, Symbion Project, and Lumia (producer behind Caroline Lufkin). Interviews and live shows followed in Montreal at Mutek, as well as in venues in Barcelona, Tokyo, New York, Boston, and Connecticut.
His upcoming release Patterns & Light was recorded in studios in Manhattan and completed in Kodomo's studio in Brooklyn. The album evolved out of a two-year period of sampling classical music records he found at stores, flea markets and sidewalk sales in and around New York City. Inspired by pieces from Bach, Schubert, Debussy, and Chopin, Kodomo examines how these classics can be re-contextualized, having sampled, stretched, and dissected their often unnoticed and most subtle parts. The samples were fed through various software processing programs and analog gear, generating new sounds, patterns, and ideas from which elements for a track would emerge. In this way, the album pays homage to these classical pieces that Kodomo is intimately familiar with and inspired by.
The album has a dark yet epic tone to it, flowing through periods of both intensity and spaciousness. There are moments of German influenced Dub Techno, Electro, IDM, and Ambient soundtracks. Notably, this is the first Kodomo album to feature vocals in songs, highlighting his collaborations with Melissa Kaplan (Universal Hall Pass), Sasha Lazard, and John Hogg (Kassini).
In between releases, Kodomo has collaborated with and done remixes for Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Freezepop, TPWLYST, Symbion Project, and Kodacrome, among other artists. He has performed in and around New York City, Montreal, Barcelona, Paris, and Tokyo.
Chris is also an Emmy nominated composer and has written music for numerous commercials and TV series. His music is regularly featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, This American Life and All Things Considered. He also created music for the popular hit video games Rock Band, Phase, Amplitude and Frequency, produced by Harmonix.
Kodomo’s music parallels his interests in technology, science, visual arts, photography, and Buddhism. He approaches each album and project with the intention of moving in a new direction, inspired by original processes and ideas that inform the music he creates.
Kodomo's music is vibrant and moody, featuring lurking atmospheres, serene, drowsy melodies, vocal slices, intricate rhythms, and thick bass sounds. Read Full BioKodomo is the electronic music project of Chris Child, based in Brooklyn, New York. Growing up in Tokyo in the 80's, Chris studied classical piano music while being exposed to early synth bands like YMO and Kraftwerk, all of which had a major impact on the music he creates. He took the moniker Kodomo from his last name, meaning "Child" in Japanese.
Kodomo's music is vibrant and moody, featuring lurking atmospheres, serene, drowsy melodies, vocal slices, intricate rhythms, and thick bass sounds. There are many influences to his craft, keeping his sound fresh, distinct and evolving. Classic 90's electronic IDM, dirty hip-hop beats, warm detuned 80's synths, and glitchy soundscapes all make their way into his music, creating a compelling retro-contemporary hybrid.
Kodomo's first official track “Spira Mirabilis” is an epic electro driven journey inspired by the Fibonacci series, which he used to govern the structure of the piece. It was produced in 2003 and released in 2007.
His debut album, Still Life, was released in 2008 on NYC's label 5 Point Records. The album was born out of a series of carefully curated photographs and explored how the images evoke rhythms, melodies, and textures. The album has an overall downtempo and chillwave feel, integrating hip-hop beats with nostalgic synth hooks. The album gained momentum online, with the success from the single Concept 11 leading to an EP, featuring remixes by Jordan Lieb of Black Light Smoke, and Taylor Deupree, founder of The 12k Label.
His second album, Frozen In Motion, was released in 2011 and took on a harder Electro/IDM direction with songs like “Decoder”, and the title track “Frozen In Motion”. The record focused on Kodomo’s obsession with field recordings of ordinary sounds from every day life and examined using them in the context of composed music. The album gained international attention and is heavily played on the NPR radio, Pandora, and last.fm. It was well received among critics, generating reviews and interviews among several music magazines including Death And Taxes and the UK's Milkfactory. Three singles were released along with remixes by Shigeto, Drift Static, Symbion Project, and Lumia (producer behind Caroline Lufkin). Interviews and live shows followed in Montreal at Mutek, as well as in venues in Barcelona, Tokyo, New York, Boston, and Connecticut.
His upcoming release Patterns & Light was recorded in studios in Manhattan and completed in Kodomo's studio in Brooklyn. The album evolved out of a two-year period of sampling classical music records he found at stores, flea markets and sidewalk sales in and around New York City. Inspired by pieces from Bach, Schubert, Debussy, and Chopin, Kodomo examines how these classics can be re-contextualized, having sampled, stretched, and dissected their often unnoticed and most subtle parts. The samples were fed through various software processing programs and analog gear, generating new sounds, patterns, and ideas from which elements for a track would emerge. In this way, the album pays homage to these classical pieces that Kodomo is intimately familiar with and inspired by.
The album has a dark yet epic tone to it, flowing through periods of both intensity and spaciousness. There are moments of German influenced Dub Techno, Electro, IDM, and Ambient soundtracks. Notably, this is the first Kodomo album to feature vocals in songs, highlighting his collaborations with Melissa Kaplan (Universal Hall Pass), Sasha Lazard, and John Hogg (Kassini).
In between releases, Kodomo has collaborated with and done remixes for Omar Faruk Tekbilek, Freezepop, TPWLYST, Symbion Project, and Kodacrome, among other artists. He has performed in and around New York City, Montreal, Barcelona, Paris, and Tokyo.
Chris is also an Emmy nominated composer and has written music for numerous commercials and TV series. His music is regularly featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, This American Life and All Things Considered. He also created music for the popular hit video games Rock Band, Phase, Amplitude and Frequency, produced by Harmonix.
Kodomo’s music parallels his interests in technology, science, visual arts, photography, and Buddhism. He approaches each album and project with the intention of moving in a new direction, inspired by original processes and ideas that inform the music he creates.
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Kodomo Lyrics
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Regular Father
The pit pat of rain on the car roof played in cadence with the cathunk cathunk of the windshield wipers as Humble sat in traffic. Floating red lights in the dark refracted off the water droplets, creating an ephemeral piece of art in front of his eyes that refreshed itself every second and a half when the wipers replaced it with a completely new and beautiful visual panorama as the vehicle moved through the dark.
But this beauty held a dark foreboding, for it had not stopped in almost a week, and Humble was but one individual in a river of people trying to escape the real river as it overflowed it's banks, destroying homes along the way. The traffic moved slowly through the dark, but Humble was happy that at least he was dry and relatively safe, so long as followed the evacuation route. He crawled along with the other vehicles, his car stereo playing soothing music that felt an appropriate soundtrack to his current situation.
As he sat in heavy traffic a trio of dark shapes moved along parallel to his vehicle, and on ahead of it. "Poor sob's." He thought to himself. Too bad for them. Ah well, he was fine. No need to worry about anyone else, since we all have the same dire problem. Humble went back to his music, imagining that the rhythm of the song matched the rhythm of the wiper blades, even though the wipers were slightly behind the time signature of the music.
Traffic picked up speed and he drove past the three pedestrians. They were stopped now, and his headlights showed a tall, broad shouldered person, a shorter slightly built person, and what could only be a young child, all obscured under ponchos. The large figure carried a day pack, but that appeared to be their only luggage. Humble craned his neck as he moved past. Why were they stopped during an evacuation? The river wasn't far from here, and if they didn't get moving in the next few moments they would certainly be trapped or worse.
He kept watch on them in his side view mirror, silently urging them on. Why didn't they have a vehicle? They didn't look like the type to not have a car. Maybe they broke down. Perhaps they were separated from another group.
The music turned from soothing to aggravating so he turned it off. The cathunk of the wipers and the hum of the car engine were now his only company, and as traffic came to a standstill he couldn't shake his concern for the people, who had begun walking again, the man carrying the child now as they moved ahead of Humble, slower than before.
Humble looked around his car. He had a large duffle bag and his laptop on the back seat. Nothing that couldn't be moved to the trunk. A few empty energy drink cans and McDonald's wrappers littered the floor embarrassingly, but now was not a time to be fastidious.
The people were about to head out of sight around a bend in the road. Humble screwed up his nerve and opened his car door, stepping out into pummeling rain that instantly soaked through his shirt. This weather wasn't fit for any living being. He hollered to the trio as they shuffled dejectedly along. They stopped and turned to face him. The child with its face buried deep in the man's chest. The woman, looking frightened. The man looking hopelessly desperate.
Humble hollered again, and waved his arms. The small family silently trudged back toward Humble and his car.
Aradia
I have literally completed entire projects with this song on repeat. For like, days. I love Kodomo's other songs, too, but this one...
CHRYSOULA NO-NAME
How do you get it to repeat on YouTube? Please help me.
Einhamer
Well... this is literally the ONE...
And stilll, it's heard to this day!
Tim Ogden
Aradia concept 16
HumblePilot
Nice song. I imagine driving at night in the city with this tune playing.
Regular Father
The pit pat of rain on the car roof played in cadence with the cathunk cathunk of the windshield wipers as Humble sat in traffic. Floating red lights in the dark refracted off the water droplets, creating an ephemeral piece of art in front of his eyes that refreshed itself every second and a half when the wipers replaced it with a completely new and beautiful visual panorama as the vehicle moved through the dark.
But this beauty held a dark foreboding, for it had not stopped in almost a week, and Humble was but one individual in a river of people trying to escape the real river as it overflowed it's banks, destroying homes along the way. The traffic moved slowly through the dark, but Humble was happy that at least he was dry and relatively safe, so long as followed the evacuation route. He crawled along with the other vehicles, his car stereo playing soothing music that felt an appropriate soundtrack to his current situation.
As he sat in heavy traffic a trio of dark shapes moved along parallel to his vehicle, and on ahead of it. "Poor sob's." He thought to himself. Too bad for them. Ah well, he was fine. No need to worry about anyone else, since we all have the same dire problem. Humble went back to his music, imagining that the rhythm of the song matched the rhythm of the wiper blades, even though the wipers were slightly behind the time signature of the music.
Traffic picked up speed and he drove past the three pedestrians. They were stopped now, and his headlights showed a tall, broad shouldered person, a shorter slightly built person, and what could only be a young child, all obscured under ponchos. The large figure carried a day pack, but that appeared to be their only luggage. Humble craned his neck as he moved past. Why were they stopped during an evacuation? The river wasn't far from here, and if they didn't get moving in the next few moments they would certainly be trapped or worse.
He kept watch on them in his side view mirror, silently urging them on. Why didn't they have a vehicle? They didn't look like the type to not have a car. Maybe they broke down. Perhaps they were separated from another group.
The music turned from soothing to aggravating so he turned it off. The cathunk of the wipers and the hum of the car engine were now his only company, and as traffic came to a standstill he couldn't shake his concern for the people, who had begun walking again, the man carrying the child now as they moved ahead of Humble, slower than before.
Humble looked around his car. He had a large duffle bag and his laptop on the back seat. Nothing that couldn't be moved to the trunk. A few empty energy drink cans and McDonald's wrappers littered the floor embarrassingly, but now was not a time to be fastidious.
The people were about to head out of sight around a bend in the road. Humble screwed up his nerve and opened his car door, stepping out into pummeling rain that instantly soaked through his shirt. This weather wasn't fit for any living being. He hollered to the trio as they shuffled dejectedly along. They stopped and turned to face him. The child with its face buried deep in the man's chest. The woman, looking frightened. The man looking hopelessly desperate.
Humble hollered again, and waved his arms. The small family silently trudged back toward Humble and his car.
carlos luis
with an acid in the brain
Gabe BX
Driving in NYC right now playing this
El Maracaibero
+calvarez817
A rainy night.
habib khasawneh
+calvarez817 same