Label Description: After a period of quiet, Golden Ratio Frequencies record label is delighted to mark its return to physical releases with KURAMA from French experimental musician Agathe Max.

Best known for her exquisite, powerful, and deeply emotive work as a virtuoso violinist—across projects including Abstract Concrete (with Charles Hayward of ThisHeat), These Towns (UKEA, Will Glaser) Mésange (God Unknown Records) And Kuro (Rocket Recordings)—KURAMA sees Max step away from strings and into the realms of experimental electronics, ASMR, and healing music.

Named after the Japanese mountain regarded as the birthplace of the energy healing practice of Reiki, KURAMA unfolds as an eight-track journey through the body. It serves as a musical interpretation of the hands-on healing practice, of which Max is a trained practitioner, whilst the act of making the record became a form of self-regulation in itself.

Max explains:
“All tracks were composed in the morning, when I would wake up around 7am, often after a series of vivid dreams, in the first light of the day and with the clearest mind as possible to channel the Reiki energy.”


The first track, Space Transformer, is based on ASMR and therapeutic tuning forks, with water and fire elements, crystals and minerals combined with the frequencies of the tuning forks C 256/G 384-C 128-C 64.

All the other tracks are following the solfeggio scale from the crown chakra, third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral, root as followed 963hz, 852hz, 741hz, 639hz, 528hz, 417hz 396hz.”

This attention to detail may not be immediately obvious, but it is felt, subtly resonating through the body in a series of calming sound experiments. There’s a playful innocence at work, wrapped in healing intention, full of soft pads, arpeggiated synths, and sensory tingling textures, all sitting alongside unexpected touches, such as the purring of Max’s late feline companion, Lemmy. The result evokes echoes of 80s New Age healing cassettes, the environmental Kankyō Ongaku of Japan (think Hiroshi Yoshimura), and contemporary Nu-age minimalism in the vein of Green-House.


Ultimately, KURAMA is a gentle offering, thoughtfully created with deep care and intention, as Max concludes:

“I hope the listener will feel the connection I have implanted in my compositions.
They all came from the deepest part of my heart, channeling the healing power of music.”


Physical copies are realised on pro-dubbed C40 lilac marbled cassette tape made from recycled plastics, with a full-colour double-panel inlay and housed in cases UV-printed with the Golden Ratio spiral, limited to just 50 copies. 

Written, recorded and produced by Agathe Max during 2020/2021.
Artwork – A P Macarte