MOMUS Oskar Tennis Champion CD Digipack NEW LOW SHIP

The album 'Oskar Tennis Champion' was recorded in the Nakameguro district where artists like Cornelius and Kahimi Karie -- both Momus collaborators -- continue the style formerly known as Shibuya-kei (now termed 'Nakame-kei'). 'Oskar Tennis Champion' was originally going to be a combination of musique concrete and the oriental theatre music of kabuki and Cantonese opera, but soon, under the influence of Jacques Tati's film 'Playtime', it went in a different direction, focusing on the juxtaposition of electroacoustic avant sound with vaudeville-style stories and slapstick. This direction was rehearsed in albums Momus co-wrote and produced for Mashcat (Japanese singer Emi Necozawa) and Milky (his ex-wife Shazna) for Japanese labels.

This trilogy of albums ('Mashroom Haircat', 'Travels With A Donkey' and finally 'Oskar Tennis Champion', the only one available outside Japan) represented Momus' need to reconcile a love of new experimental laptop groups like Scratch Pet Land, DAT Politics and Discom with his own particular evolution of the traditional song format -- a unique mix of pastiche and unreliable narration, role playing, kulturkritik, comedy, provocation and devil's advocacy.