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Satomi Magae recognizes that memory is as bound up in the body as it is in the surroundings. Since her 2012 debut,
awa, the guitarist and vocalist has seen reflections of herself in the world around her, using empty streets, vacant apartments, and barbed-wire-wrapped watchtowers as conduits for somber meditations on the passage of time. With soft, acoustic arrangements that barely rise above a whisper, Magaeâs work splits the difference between narrative songwriting and ambient composition, combining aspects of each style into a greater whole. Her fourth studio album and first with the American experimental imprint RVNG (in partnership with Amsterdam-based Japanese label Guruguru Brain),