BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:a371ba7f-fd7c-44e8-8777-584d7550587a@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261026T183332Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270404T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270404T220000 SUMMARY:Cornelius DESCRIPTION:Cornelius Bio For more than three decades\, Cornelius has occ upied a singular space in contemporary music. The long-running project o f Japanese musician\, producer and composer Keigo Oyamada\, Cornelius em erged in the early 1990s following the dissolution of Tokyo pop group Fl ipper’s Guitar\, before becoming one of the most distinctive and forward -thinking names in modern experimental pop. International breakthrough F antasma (1997) established Oyamada as a restless sonic architect\, stitc hing together psychedelic pop\, electronic music\, musique concrète\, hi p hop and avant-garde composition into something playful\, hyper-detaile d and impossible to pin down. The album became a cult touchstone\, while subsequent releases including Point and Sensuous further expanded his i ntricate\, cinematic sound. Alongside his own records\, Oyamada has coll aborated with artists including Blur\, Beck\, MGMT\, James Brown and Yok o Ono\, while his precision-synchronised live shows have long blurred th e line between concert and audiovisual installation. Nearly three decade s later\, Fantasma B-side “Typewrite Lesson” has also found a new genera tion of listeners\, recently going viral on TikTok and receiving support from artists including Rosalía. Yet ‘REFRACTIONS’ feels less like a con tinuation than the beginning of another transformation. Written between 2024 and the end of 2025\, the album explores ideas of perception\, shif ting realities\, memory and interconnected consciousness\, not through o vert narrative but through structure\, texture and movement itself. “As the world and my surroundings changed at an intense speed\, I think all of that inevitably shaped this work\,” Oyamada explains. “Rather than ex pressing these ideas directly\, I approached them structurally — explori ng continuity\, transformation\, and multiple coexisting states within a single\, uninterrupted flow of time.” That sense of fluidity runs throu ghout ‘REFRACTIONS’ . Songs dissolve and reform\, melodies appear like h alf-remembered signals before refracting into new shapes\, while acousti c instrumentation\, digital manipulation and spectral electronics coexis t in constantly shifting balance. At times intimate and weightless\; els ewhere disorienting and densely layered\, the album feels like fragments of parallel realities briefly overlapping. The album also marks a move outward. Where previous records such as Mellow Waves and Dream In Dream often carried a solitary\, inward-facing quality\, Refractions was consc iously shaped through collaboration and exchange. “This time\, instead o f turning inward\, I wanted to open the work through interaction with ot hers\,” says Oyamada. “I’ve come to feel more strongly that reality is n ot something completed within oneself\, but something shaped through rel ationships and exchanges.” Among those collaborators is longtime friend Sean Ono Lennon\, who contributes lyrics and vocals to lead single “Aeon s”. Their creative relationship stretches back to the late 1990s\, when Oyamada first encountered Lennon’s debut Into the Sun and recognised a k indred sensibility in its adventurous melodic language and experimental pop instincts. “Whenever we work together\, I’m always struck by the bre adth of his musical talent\,” Oyamada says. “Ideas naturally move beyond the boundaries of what either of us initially imagined.” Lennon describ es their collaboration simply: “I’m always honoured to work with Keigo\, he’s one of my favorite humans on the Earth Planet!” Elsewhere\, Brazil ian-American icon Arto Lindsay contributes his distinctive balance of fr agility\, abstraction and angularity to “Bad Advice”\, while Bid of The Monochrome Set provides lyrics and vocals on “You Make Me Cyborg”. Longt ime collaborator Shintaro Sakamoto also contributes lyrics. Despite its conceptual undercurrents\, ‘REFRACTIONS’ never feels cold or cerebral. I t possesses the curiosity\, playfulness and emotional openness that have always made Cornelius’ music so enduring\, drawing on psychedelic pop\, ambient music\, Brazilian tropicália\, kosmische experimentation and mi nimalist composition without settling into any one genre. What emerges i s not a fixed statement\, but something fluid and alive: music that bend s time\, folds memory into the present\, and continually transforms as i t moves forward. ‘REFRACTIONS’ marks the start of a remarkable new chapt er for Cornelius\, an artist who remains entirely singular in contempora ry music. ‘REFRACTIONS’ is available online now\, with physical copies a vailable to pre-order through all good record stores ‘‘Refractions’’ alb um links: https://linktr.ee/Cornelius_Japan\n\nTickets: https://www.tick etmaster.com/cornelius-madison-wisconsin-04-04-2027/event/07006550D0D8A0 F1\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/a371ba7f-fd7c-44e8-8777-584d7550 587a LOCATION:Majestic Theatre\, 115 King Street\, Madison\, WI 53703 URL:https://findlocal.community/event/a371ba7f-fd7c-44e8-8777-584d7550587 a STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR