JU SEI : 申 (Mousu)

'Jqu sei is the experimental song duo of vocalist sei and Junichiro Tanaka (aka Noppo no Goony, known for his remix work with Tentenko). Active within Tokyo’s experimental and improvisational scene around Ftarri and Enban, the duo now presents their latest album on Makoto Oshiro’s Basic Function label.
Mousu drifts between ’90s phantasmic pop, freeform music, and electroacoustic soundwork. It seems to trace a peculiar continuum—as if Akiko Yano, possessed by After Dinner’s Haco, were to emerge on 360° Records as a chamber-pop incarnation of KATRA TURANA.
Fragments of daydream memory, childhood innocence, and the shadow of a carousel surface in quiet, spoken melodies and ghostly, acoustic spaces.
“One Word” lets the lucid detachment of electronica/glitch-pop seep through the cracks of a small room; “Snow is Irrelevant” shimmers with echoes of synth-pop in the lineage of Kate NV and Mioko Yamaguchi; “Hamo (Pike Conger)” intertwines magnetic tape–like experimentation with contemporary electronic textures.
These moments connect within a miniature garden of childlike imagination and surreal play, forming a crystalline instance of deeply personal, meta-ambient chanson—a poetic record standing at the far edge of meticulously warped “homemade music.”
— Tsunaoki Kadowaki (Meditations / Sad Disco)

sei’s voice is of immaculate purity, carrying a fragile grace that always hovers at the very edge. Junichiro Tanaka is, as ever, a perfectionist composer—each piece is astonishingly condensed and refined.
In this degenerate world overrun by replaceable, quasi–automatically generated expressions,
ju sei appears as an angel descending from above, and the knight who protects her.
I once lived by the praise someone gave me—“your film resembles no one else’s.”
I want to dedicate those exact words entirely to them.
ju sei stands in solitude within solitude—masters of the one and only.
— Kei Shichiri (Film Director)'




1. 祭壇 (Altar) 02:46
2. 魅惑のボール (A Charming Ball) 01:38
3. 一言 (One Word) 06:00
4. 雪の無関係 (Snow is Irrelevant) 09:02
5. 雪の無関係 (Snow is Irrelevant) 02:49
6. 鱧 (Hamo - Pike Conger) 03:20
7. 一重 (Monolids) 04:56
8. 波がきこえる (Ocean Waves) 03:53
9. 鷗 (Seagull) 02:59
10. ポーション (Portion) 09:14

ju sei: sei, Junichiro Tanaka
Lyrics, Composition, Arrangement, Performance, Recording: ju sei
Cover Photo: Hanayo
Makeup: Yuka Hirac, Beri-chang
Translation: mmm
Mastering: Makoto Oshiro
Design: Hirozumi Takeda