The melancholic minomo – “surface of water” in Japanese – brings atmospheric, otherworldly music infused with mysticism.
This band enjoys leaving the beaten path, mixing English, Dutch, and Japanese in their lyrics and experimenting with alienating sounds and effects. Their music evokes a bittersweet, whimsical world where nothing is what it seems. Enchanting violin sounds, hypnotic bass lines and evocative percussion take you on an adventure that at times feels raw and dark and at other times like a mantra or sweet lullaby. During this ethereal journey, minomo takes you out of your comfort zone with surprising chords, textures and poetic imagery along vast misty plains, to the bottom of the sea or the chaos inside your head, while Marieke’s warm voice flawlessly leads you back to more familiar territory. An escapade best experienced at sunrise or sunset.
