CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN - Rex LP Independent Ikeda’s first album as a

Ikeda’s first album as a leader features pianist and vocalist Ichiko Hashimoto — also known for her involvement with Yellow Magic Orchestra — Berlin-based jazz pianist Aki Takase

Illuminating minor works from seasoned players such as former Syndicate Of Sound chart-topper Sharkey and late-era Canned Heat lynchpin James Thornbury

Vol I was my doorway to the geomungo

and the postpubescent delinquency

following 2010’s Old Punch Card

CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN - Rex LP Independent Ikeda’s first album as aREX is a solo cello record written and recorded while Ive been living in the former home of Rex Brasher, a self taught painter who created over 1,200 watercolors of North American birds. Composed for acoustic and electric cello, the record reflects the solitude and intensity that shaped both Brashers vision and my own process. REX is not a portrait, but an echoof a person, a place, and a way of seeing the world. Thank you to Matthew, Munawar, Cynthia