INCOMING | Yuka Honda — Heart Chamber Phantoms

[Tzadik; February 22]

For her third solo album for Tzadik Records’ Oracles series, releases that “celebrate the diversity and creativity of women in experimental music making”, Yuka Honda delivers another fascinating, mostly instrumental set, this time using her programming and production skills to create what the label describes as “a hypnotic groove for young moderns”.

Featuring two co-writes with Sean Lennon, with whom she currently performs in Yoko Ono’s regenerated Plastic Ono Band, and three with horns arranger Michael Leonhart (who also guests on percussion, keyboards and vibraphone), Heart Chamber Phantoms looks sets to be her most ambitious solo outing to date. Regular collaborators Dougie Brown (drums) and Courtney Kaiser (vocals) are among the other guests.

Tracklist:
01 Phantom With An Armor
02 Hydrosphere
03 Last Night, Late, By The Lake
04 Heart Chamber, Part I: Rock
05 Heart Chamber, Part II: Zoe
06 Waters On Mars
07 Little Hope
08 Robot Elephant’s Tears
09 Cycle Of Water
10 Don’t Be So Naïve

Yuka Honda website
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