Susumu Yokota - Image 1983-1998 (Skintone Edition) [CD Version]

Format: CD Version
Catalogue No.: Lo252CD
Barcode: 5056467362743
Release Date: 29 Aug 2025
Genre: Ambient / Experimental

- Single Disc Glass mastered CD.
- 6 Panel DigiSleeve printed and formed on 300gsm uncoated board.
- Printed sleeve notes.

01. Kaiten Mokuba
02. Tayutafu
03. Fukoro No Yume
04. Wani Natte
05. Sakashima
06. Morino Gakudan
07. Nisemono No Uta
08. Daremoshiranai Chiisanakuni
09. Kawano Hotorino Kinoshitade
10. Yumekui Kobito
11. Amai Niyoi
12. Enogu
13. Amanogawa
 
Magic Thread is Susumu Yokota’s deeply soothing and delicate debut release on the Skintone label. With a spartan palette of sounds and textures, Yokota taps into a fundamentally human need to fuse and connect disparate fibres, magically forming work which glistens and pulsates with life.

Magic Thread originally came out in 1998 as a limited-edition CD release of 500 copies. Initially intended for the Japanese market, it came without any artwork in a standard transparent CD case adorned only by a sticker containing essential album information and a quote:

‘Somewhere in the process of evolution, the spinning and weaving of thread became possible for humankind. How did this come to pass? It can only be that the thread is possessed of magical properties.’ – Yokota, 1998.