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This collaborative release presents three immersive movements of avant-electronics full of unexpected tonal contrasts and shifts in intensity. Powered by modular synthesis, “concrete” assemblage technique and a pervasive desire to work with the full spectrum of sound, Tokokawa is the product of its two producers’ commitment to a dynamic, ever-renewing sense of aesthetics.

From late 2023 to the present, we started from a simple, agreed interest in collaboration to something that became much more carefully calibrated and conceptually guided.The results are, to my ears, a seamless and strangely organic suite of electro-acoustic pieces that hone in on the “essences” of various avant-electronic genres (“noise,” “drone,” “dark ambient,” etc etc) without succumbing to their more cliched elements. We composed this material almost telepathically (i.e. with a bare minimum of instruction and revision needed) and I’m excited to share the results with my supporters here.

I think our music is a representation of us being conduits for energies that precede us and will survive us, and to that end we also named the three “phases” here with verbal cues indicating different states of matter: “Amanogawa” is either the “Milky Way” or, in direct translation, the “River of Heaven.” “Nurikabe” is a solid plaster wall that, I’m told, occasionally figures into bouts of sleep paralysis. “Jouhatsu suru Yuurei” are “vaporizing ghosts” (the confusion this may cause native Japanese speakers is intentional – I was trying to imagine something ephemeral becoming somehow even more ephemeral).

We aimed at creating pieces which would also have the “properties” of solid, liquid or gas, but not completely: the focus is, again, on cyclical renewal and therefore each of these phases has just enough of an open-ended quality to it.

The CD version of this album on Fourth Dimension is also enhanced by lovely full-color artwork from Paul Takahashi, and expert mastering by Ryoko Ono.

Originally released on 5th July 2024

Y’ng-Yin Siew (Reverse Image), Thomas Bey William Bailey:
analog modular synthesis, real-time digital processing

Paul Takahashi: artwork

Thomas Bey William Bailey: CD layout / design

Ryoko Ono: mastering

Label Description: Current catalogue number is : MF349

Mean Flow is a solo project of Theofil Tsiolakakis from Thessaloniki, Greece.

All 17 tracks of this album have written and recorded between 13th February to 5th of March 2026. Total duration is 01:33:21 (10 main tracks plus 7 bonus (collaboration) track(s), so totally 17 tracks).

Many thanx to the following musician for his collaboration with me to the bonus tracks of this album :

– {AN} Eel (Neal D. Retke) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) for my rerwork to his track : no 11 “Monks Lick Lips”.

There are also 3 previous remixes/reworks by me to his music and 3 by him to mine on my previous albums : “Enclosed Sky”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”,”Vauge Emotions”, “Unsolved Labyrinth Remixed (By Various Artists)” & “Forgotten Crimes”.
Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by {AN} Eel netlabel called and I hope there are more in the future.

Here are some {AN} Eel/Neal D. Retke links :
panpanpanaviandistresscall.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/-AN-Eel-Neal-D-Retke–499622230055214/
www.discogs.com/artist/2768834-Neal-D-Retke
deepwhitesound.com/an-eel/

– Sabila Orbe (Rancagua, Chile) and his projects Filmy Ghost, Insectoid Girl, Yaka-anima and Miss Spectra (Rancagua, Chile – Born: Cali, Colombia) (along with Sabila Orbe) and their project Humanfobia for our collaboration track (me adding music to their voice track) : no 12 “Fire Walk With Me”.

There are more collaborations with the projects above with 32 tracks inluded on my previous albums “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”, “Greatest Failure”, ”This Feeling”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Humanfobia’s Letargo Sumergido E.P. Reworks”, “Subduction Zone”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Humanfobia’s Realidades Paralelas Reworks”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, the compilation “Mean Flow x Humanfobia – ▼👻░░░ (2022)”,”Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Demolition Of Ideals” & “Exhausted”.
Also many Mean Flow tracks included in various artists compilations released by Mist Spectra/Humanfobia netlabels called “Cian Orbe”, “Gothic Spectra Compilation”, “Internet Daemon Netlabel” & “Dawn Of Darkness”.

Here are Filmy Ghost, Yaka-anima, Humanfobia, Insectoid Girl, Cian Orbe, Gothic Spectrea Compilations, Internet Daemon Netlabel, etc various sites (older & newer) :
humanfobia.jimdo.com
soundcloud.com/humanfobia/
humanfobia-official.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/humanfobia/
www.discogs.com/artist/5341348-Humanfobia/
humanfobia-official.blogspot.com
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
hearthis.at/filmy-ghost/
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/insectoid-girl/
bandcamp.com/tag/sabila-orbe/
filmyghost-humanfobia-doppelganger.bandcamp.com/music/
humanfobia.jimdofree.com/filmy-ghost/
insectoidgirl.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/yaka.anima.noise/
humanfobia.jimdo.com/insectoid-girl/
gothicspectracompilation.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/label/1702681-Gothic-Spectra/
internetdaemon.bandcamp.com
www.discogs.com/label/2098360-Internet-Daemon/
archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Internet+Daemon+Netlabel%22/
archive.org/details/dawn-of-darkness/
www.soundshiva.net/netlabel/internet-daemon/
www.discogs.com/label/3828785-Dawn-Of-Darkness/
www.instagram.com/dawn.of.darkness.compilations/
www.reverbnation.com/dawnofdarknesscompilations/
www.facebook.com/dawnofdarkness.netlabel/

– Marco Lucchi (Modena, Italy) for my rework in his 4 tracks : no 11 “The Scarecrow [Naviar Haiku # 629]”, no 12 “Arpeggios Are Very Selfish N*5”, no 13 “Poetry Makes Nothing Happen” & no 14 “Slowly Gliding [Naviar Haiku # 632]”.

Other 289 Marco Lucchi’s tracks, remixed/reworked by Mean Flow are also included in my previous albums “Viridis Achates”, “Inmost Silence”, “Floating Thoughts”, “Blurred Imagination”, “Eternal Question”, “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Enclosed Sky”, “Eternal Call”, “Dark View”, “Noise Elegance”, “Distant View”, “Obscure Details”, “Greatest Failure”, “This Feeling”, “Marco Lucchi’s 100 First Reworked Tracks”, ”Darkness Versus Light”, “Subduction Zone”, “Winter Tales”, “Anchored Dreams”, “Vauge Emotions”, “Directed Public Awareness”, “A Monument To The Ruined Age”, “Reductio Ad Absurdum”, “Tunnel Vision”, “Ιnsufficient Εnergy”, “Low Profile”, Secret Place”, “Unknown Aspects”, “Endless Destination”, “Timeless Experiences”, ”Elegant Plan”, “Under Epidermis”, “Temporary Respite”, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 2″, Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 3″, “Τhe Τruth Οf Εach”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 4”, “Dead End”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 5”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 6”, “Ambient Landscapes”, “Liquid Material”, “Social Castration”, “Creative Destruction”, “Forgotten Crimes”, “Rights Vs Prejudices”, “Marco Lucchi’s Mello_w_tron Reworked”, “Hollow Impressiveness”, “Profit Sacrifices”, “Under Destruction”, “Preset Sensitivity”, “Unhealed Scars”, “Traceless”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 7”, “Pointless”, “Decriminalized Pleasures”, “Hidden Items”, “Marginalized Snapshots”, “Self Destruct”, “Law Of Action And Reaction”, “Pensive Mood”, “40 Years”, “Demystification”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 8”, “Tired”, “Outside”, “New Member”, “Sad But True”, “Demolition Of Ideals”, “Soft Razors”, “Guilty Silence”, “Fundamental Elements”, “Imagination Release”, “Marco Lucchi’s Reworked Tracks Volume 9”, “Truth Or Dare”, “Short Journey, Infinite Distance”, “No Fair”, “Cornucopia Of Pleasures”, “Green”, “Unpleasant Expectations”, “Sky Limit”, “Destruction Signature”, “Mortgaged Life”, “Life Will Never Stop Being Unfair, Very Unfair”, “Crushed Life”, “Haunted Figurehead”, “Truth Relativism”, “Abnormal Regularity”, “Attribution Of Blame”, “Convalescence”, “Abuse Of Power “, “Unjust Guilt”, “Democratic Dictatorship”, “Clarity Over Compulsion”, “Fight The Sickness”, “Online Decay”, “Negotiated Portrayal”, “Meaningless Purpose”, “Mental Reset”, ”Allegorical Interpretation’ & “High Mental Load”‘.

Here are Marco Lucchi’s facebook, bandcamp & soundcloud links of his too many and very good releases :
www.facebook.com/Marco-Lucchi-110608112312364/ & www.facebook.com/orchestra-eclettica-e-sincretista-111790807863/
www.facebook.com/musichevirtuali
marcolucchi.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/marcolucchi & soundcloud.com/musichevirtuali
soundcloud.com/flyingtonefis

– Scott Lawlor (Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.) for my remix to his track : no 14 “Glittering Lights Above The Clouds”.

There are also 7 tracks made by Scott Lawlor and reworked/remixed by Mean Flow for a collaboration album called “Nocturnes, Volume 8”. It’s a part of project where many people rework/remix all of some of these tracks for collaboration albums. First 2 parts of these reworks are included also on my previous album “40 Years”.

Here are some Scott Lawlor links (and links you can find Scott’s music) :
scottlawlor.bandcamp.com
auralfilms.bandcamp.com
earthmantra.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/c/ScottLawlor
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089272444198

– Finally ArtKlang, a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro and his solo project “SRVTR” (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) for my rework to his track : no 13 “Nuit Blanche”.
ArtKlang is a collaboration project between Gildas Brugaro (solo project “SRVTR”) (Rennes, Bretagne, France – born: Saint-Malo, Bretagne, France) and Bruno Green (Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)

There are other 13 SRVTR reworked tracks by me included on my previous albums : “Black Veils Over Sad Tales”, “Dark View”, “Obscure Details”, “Dead End”, “Unequal Equality”, “Suffocating Pressure” & “Ambient Landscapes”.
There was also a collbaration track of ours called “Bug Sound” and there were 16 remixes by many various artists to this collaboration track, including also 2 remixes by each of us (Mean Flow & SRVTR), that released as an album called “SRVTR/ Mean Flow : Bug Sound Remixed” in SRVTR’s bandcamp link : srvtr.bandcamp.com/album/srvtr-mean-flow-bug-sound-remixed.
This collaboration track “Bug Sound” and my Mean Flow remix of it were included on my previous album “Eternal Question”.
Also he remixed Mean Flow’s track “Frozen Lake (SRVTR Remix)” included on my previous album “Imaginary 10” #4 Remixed (By Various Artists)”.

Here is ArtKlang bandcamp link :
artklang.bandcamp.com

Here are some Gildas Brugaro/SRVTR links :
www.facebook.com/GildasBrugaroSRVTR/
srvtr.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/gildas-brugaro
www.mixcloud.com/discover/srvtr/
open.spotify.com/artist/0LPvoRA2nHLAom7ivGQETm

And here are Bruno Green links :
brunogreen.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/bruno.green.989173

All other music, keyboards, any kind instruments, sounds-noises, sound effects to rest of the songs made by Mean Flow (Theofil Tsiolakakis), Thessaloniki, Greece.

Many thanx to all people who like and support my music.

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