Ahead of the release of her debut EP "Auraelia" this Friday, November 22nd via Injazero Records, and a show at SET in Dalston on December 4th, Hinako Omori has shared a new track entitled "Bank of Inner Criticisms". 

After delving into a hard drive of instrumental demos, lyrics and field recordings made over a four-year span, "Auraelia" was born. The tracks are a sonic exploration of space, haziness and transformation, building on layers of synths and vocals.
The new track "Bank of Inner Criticisms" is a delicate, hushed crescendo where iridescent electronics interweave brooding bass, and silence and space is used to powerful effect.

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Hinako Omori is a musician with a love for synthesizers and anything that makes interesting sounds. Born in Yokohama, Japan she moved to London when she was three, where she is still based. Initially training to be a sound engineer, Hinako studied Music and Sound Recording

at the University of Surrey and then went on to continue working in music, at a record label and

as part of a curation team for a festival. After session playing on the side, she leapt into working full time as a pianist/keyboard player and programmer – some of the artists Hinako has worked and toured with include Georgia, Kate Tempest, KT Tunstall, James Bay, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Ellie Goulding and Fionn Regan. 

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Speaking about the EP, Hinako said "The idea of the tracks on Auraelia came about during a strange period of having daily migraines with auras for a month. The physical reaction I was experiencing from the auras –

the haziness/blurriness/partial loss of sight and spots of light surrounding every day vision – also seemed to reflect the emotions I was feeling 

at the time – confusion, lack of clarity, ambiguity, mixed feelings of hope and melancholy... I then discovered that Aurelia is a type of jellyfish, which also strangely seemed to fit the description perfectly! I recently found out that jellyfish don’t have a central nervous system or brain, but respond

to stimuli detected from their tentacles - so they’re almost floating through the ocean, kind of helplessly, but perhaps with an innate sense

of direction…"

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LIVE DATE

 

4th Dec - SET, LONDON

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