

About this Track
- Added on 10 March 2025
- Album More or Less
- Year of creation 2025
- Label A Tree in a Field
- Tags japanese
- 3 plays
Credits
«Aka Tombo» is a Japanese nursery rhyme. Nostalgically, it describes a rural scene with dragonflies flying into the red sunset. Based on this, Tim & Puma Mimi have created an almost atypical B-single: traditional sounds from KoTaMo (a hybrid of koto, tambura and monochord), glockenspiel, flutes, steel drums, plus a booming bass sound. What a meditative, spiritual experience, far away from the electro-pop of the Swiss-Japanese duo. A similar break in style of this kind has recently only been offered by flute rapper André3000. And that succeeded – as does «Aka Tombo» by Tim & Puma Mimi, the last track before the release of the new album «More or Less Tim & Puma Mimi».


Tim & Puma Mimi are a Swiss-Japanese duo from Zurich and Tokyo. Their music can be heard in the Hollywood remake of «Ghost in the Shell» and the Netflix series «Good Girls», among others. Boris...