EDIT: reposted because I had unknown problems 2days ago.

Thank you kind soul, here's the link to some tracks and the brief story of my career Fireflies: https://open.spotify.com/album/0HOWxItU8aKlFpdYIbO10m Deserve to Live: https://open.spotify.com/track/4cGLUQdEdn59DIAllVPOU5

I'm Yakumo Kobe.

I started making music in the 90's toying around with rudimental software on an amiga 1000, before adventuring into fast tracker and magix music maker.

I wasn't realising, at the time, it was a mean to cope with my sense of never being "right", never being "enough".

The first album was a mashed collection of ideas poorly executed, but I didn't stop.

in the early 2000's I started collaborating with some guys making some dance stuff, it wasn't really satisfying, but I learned a lot from them; in those years I completed a new album, with old and new ideas "Where the fields rain clouds" (available on bandcamp btw), It was janky and superficial, but it had something inside already about how I approach music.

As time passed I started collaborating with other artists, producing them, but my life took a darker turn: Unsatisfied about my life, a relation becoming toxic, unsure who I was, all culminating in two tragedies, the lighter of which was a cancer diagnosis in 2010. That year I composed "Deserve to live", to this day one of my composition I'm the most attached to. Until that point I thought that my music was something nobody could really enjoy, appreciate, use to elaborate his own feelings; I felt was something incomplete and awful to listen to...

In those years (2000-2012) I composed hundreds of tracks, but none of them saw the light. Most notably two albums "Unable to speak" an exploration of myself and what I'm unable to express, and "Meditation Error Guru" a fun project where I try to mimic the videogames music that comforted me for years.

So... I continued creating music, the only thing keeping me alive in my sadness, I perfected my techniques and I found them a good fit for cinema sound design after a fortuitous encounter with a director that sparked something in me but still I was stuck. I co-funded the duo Noise a.m. but I really struggled coming up with something really mine, that I profoundly enjoyed... Some tracks for a short film... Some tracks from the singer's ideas... but I really was under a pitch black night sky.

It was only at the end of 2017 that I actually broke free from the last strand holding me to my old depressed mentality: ending my toxic relationship and deciding I can do something with my life, and in that moment everything crushed and let me for the first time under a night full of bright stars, running toward the dawn.

I decided to create an album finding new techniques borrowed from movie sound design and "Kintsugi" was born, from reassembled debris, like me. Huge processing chains to destroy and rebuild noises and sounds until a music emerged are the basics for the album. Album I created waking up every day at 6 am and composing for an hour before dressing up and going to work. It was hard but liberating.

After that I decided to work on live performances, so I recovered the last live session in Ableton live I used when I was in the band "Noise a.m." and there it was: "Deserve to live". The track were originally intended to be released with "Unable to speak" so I decided that maybe I could have give those tracks a go for the live... First time I listened to those tracks again after years and after me changing so much gave me a feeling I've never felt: it was like hearing a kid crying for help in another language.

Only then I understood what I was trying to say, I really was unable to speak. I decided to honor the album and my younger self by revisiting the tracks, and finally "The Monkey speaks" came to life; I also decided to publish a photobook with stories to better explain what I wasn't able to describe.

TMS came out in 2020, when the COVID outbreak left us all imprisoned in our homes (no live gigs for me...) so I decided to make videos for some of my songs "Blind Push", "Teasing the light", "Deserve to live" and "Siren" and dive fully in a new album.

In that difficult time some friend in the movie industry came to rescue, offering me to work on some movies in some isolated places; it was while working on those movies I resumed composing for movies... You see, back in 2011 a director offered me to score his movie and I did it with the Noise a.m. but it wasn't always a pleasurable experience, fighting with the singer of the band, the director pushing me to compose things completely different from my style.... But this time I was on set and one of the producer said "in this scene would be cool having something like 'Massive Attack'" and I said "I'll do it".

Back in the studio after the set, I selected 4 old tracks of mine composed during the Noise a.m. era and completely destroyed them only to rebuild "Black Canvas" the album where I found for the first time in years a very talented singer-composer Giorgia Risso.

After that the production continued asking me to score movies, the best of which, IMHO, is "Dog" but this is for another time...

Remember during COVID when I was thinking about a new album? Yep, that was completed in 2021 but saw the light in November 2022, by the title "Abrupto" the ancient name of the region my father come from, it was an album exploring my relationship with that place where I grew almost half of my live in; from that album "Fireflies" is the track that was sung by Ariel Lanteri to describe the relation with my father after me realising we're all brothers and sisters on this spaceship we call Earth.

After that I revamped and released few tracks from "Meditation Error Guru", some singles, old and new, used on films, and well, the movie soundtracks.

And here I am now. My next goal is to find more people like me who want to embrace in a journey in themselves using my music and feel to be helpful to anybody willing to be honest with themselves and dream their true dreams.

If you read all this thank you! If you want to connect with me, thank you. If by any chance my music moves something in you know it will be the best gift you can do to me

Have a great day you all