Label: Kou Records

カッチリと仕上げられた素晴らしい装丁!!ボイス加工モノ、サウンドポエトリー・ファンは是非!!ニューヨークを拠点にヴォーカリスト兼電子音楽アーティストとして活動、恩田晃氏やSewer Electionとの共作、そして2021年にErratumより発表した1stソロLP[KNVF]が非常に高い評価を受けたCharmaine Lee。本作は素晴らしいジャケットデザインを貫く米Kou Recordsが手掛けた2nd LP。 生の声と加工音を大胆に融合、有機サウンドと合成音の境界を曖昧にする事により、より一層の悍ましさと強靭さを生むことに成功した名盤。帯付き、180グラム重量盤仕様。









The standard edition of Tulpa, pressed on 180g classic black vinyl. Packaged in a high-quality jacket with a hot orange obi strip and full-color artwork and artist portrait by Lale Westvind. B side features zoetrope by Una Blue. Made with love and created to be played loud.

Tulpa is the most ambitious album yet from New York–based vocalist and electronics artist Charmaine Lee, following her acclaimed debut KNVF (Erratum Musical, 2021). Where earlier works explored sculptural delicacy, Tulpa arrives with immediacy and intensity, unflinching in its integration of raw human voice and processing, dissolving boundaries between organic and synthetic sound.

Inspired by the physicality and futurism of ’70s rock and the esoteric edges of tube amplification, Lee channels that energy into a densely layered and tactile listening experience—at once timelessly analog and futuristically digital.

Produced by Randall Dunn and recorded at Applehead Recording in Woodstock, NY, Tulpa embraces spatialized sound through the splitting of Lee’s signal across vintage tube amplifiers and direct input. The result is a spectrum of feedback, color, and dimensional shifts, moving fluidly from microscopic detail to expansive complexity while maintaining visceral clarity.

The title, drawn from Tibetan mysticism, refers to a being or object conjured through thought and imagination—mirroring Lee’s own practice, where sound becomes both material and illusion, embodied and ephemeral. Closing with a meditative duo featuring Ned Rothenberg on bass clarinet, Tulpa nods to Noh theatre while opening onto new horizons of Lee’s artistic evolution.

As her first solo release on Kou Records, the New York–based label she founded in 2025, Tulpa also inaugurates a curatorial vision dedicated to artists who are uncompromising in craft and curiosity.