{"id":2475278,"date":"2026-06-25T15:10:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2475278"},"modified":"2026-06-25T15:10:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:10:45","slug":"maya-ongaku-nothing-space-music-second-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/maya-ongaku-nothing-space-music-second-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Maya Ongaku &#8211; Nothing Space Music second album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maya Ongaku have announced their second album <em>Nothing Space Music<\/em>, due 7th August via Guruguru Brain and Bayon Production, alongside lead single \u2018Astral Echoes\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trio, Tsutomu Sonoda, Ryota Takano and Shoei Ikeda, formed in the seaside towns surrounding Enoshima on Japan\u2019s Shonan coast and released their debut album <em>Approach to Anima<\/em> in 2023 to international attention. Since then they have toured extensively across Japan and Europe, and the experience of that constant movement fed directly into the philosophy behind the new record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make <em>Nothing Space Music<\/em>, the band returned home and built an entirely new environment for themselves: Nothing Space Studio, a large soundproof building near a seaside shrine in their hometown, constructed specifically around the needs of this album. The concept at the record\u2019s centre is what they call \u201cshizen hassei\u201d (spontaneous occurrence), described by Sonoda as approaching a vast expanse where memories of past, present and future drift together: \u201cA place where sky and sea, shadow and light, sound and silence blend into one continuous whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The album\u2019s eight tracks were written, recorded and mixed entirely by the trio using acoustic guitars, Roland Juno-6 synthesisers, upright piano, Rhodes, a TR-8S drum machine and an unusual instrument called a sei, described as a \u201cwater whale.\u201d Lead single \u2018Astral Echoes\u2019 captures the philosophy plainly: \u201cI believe inspiration is not something to be chased or seized, but something that emerges when we patiently wait for its arrival in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maya Ongaku play Tokyo\u2019s Liquidroom on 4th July before a European tour, with UK dates including London\u2019s Moth Club on 11th September.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"maya ongaku - Astral Echoes\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EeWav1sgGpQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h3 id=\"h-editors-picks\" class=\"wp-block-heading wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Editors\u2019 Picks<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source whynow.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maya Ongaku have announced their second album Nothing Space Music, due 7th August via Guruguru Brain and Bayon Production, alongside lead single \u2018Astral Echoes\u2019. The trio, Tsutomu Sonoda, Ryota Takano and Shoei Ikeda, formed in the seaside towns surrounding Enoshima on Japan\u2019s Shonan coast and released their debut album Approach to Anima in 2023 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2475279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[445107,487103,317899,487104,445109,487105,487106],"class_list":["post-2475278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-ambient","tag-enoshima","tag-experimental","tag-guruguru-brain","tag-japanese-music","tag-maya-ongaku","tag-psychedelic-folk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Maya-Ongaku-Nothing-Space-Music-second-album.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475280,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475278\/revisions\/2475280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}