Our design works are featured on INDEPENDENCE : THE HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN IN SINGAPORE SINCE THE 1960s published by The Design Society. The book presents the history of the country’s independent graphic design studios and a selection of the iconic work created by them over the last fifty years. Works featured include our design for “twilight by haruka nakamura” and “sketch by ironomi”, as well as projects by internationally renowned Singapore design studios WORK, :phunk studio and others. Available now at The Design Society website and at Basheer Book Store.

- Read more at The Design Society

ASPIDISTRAFLY “A LITTLE FABLE” is reviewed in the debut issue of NYLON Singapore. Thank you to Dan Koh for the review.

French music publication AUTRES DIRECTIONS names ASPIDISTRAFLY / A LITTLE FABLE as their playlist of the month. Also featuring glowing reviews for the album as well as 12 & 1 SONG by Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura. Thank you Jerome for the writings.

- Read review ASPIDISTRAFLY / A LITTLE FABLE
- Read review 12 & 1 SONG / Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura

Textura (Canada) has selected ASPIDISTRAFLY / A LITTLE FABLE as album of the month for April 2012. The album along with Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura / 12 & 1 SONG are also featured in the review section in this month’s edition.

- Read full reviews at Textura here

ASPIDISTRAFLY track “Landscape With A Fairy” has been selected as NPR Music’s Song Of The Day 21st March 2012 — “With a hushed, wispy voice in the spirit of Vashti Bunyan… “Landscape With a Fairy” and Aspidistrafly’s gorgeous second album, A Little Fable, have more in common with ambient composers like Max Richter — and, along the way, have found their own leaf-covered path.” Thank you NPR Music!

- NPR Song of the day

haruka nakamura & Janis Crunch will be holding a series of intimate shows in Tokyo at Rainy Day Bookstore & Cafe and Le Lieu on 2nd and 6th of March respectively to promote their latest release “12 & 1 SONG”. Limited tickets are available. Click on the links below for more information (Japanese Only)

3.2 RAINY DAY BOOKSTORE & CAFE (Tokyo, Japan)
Rainy Day Bookstore & Cafe presents「 灯り あかり 」

3.6 LE LIEU (Tokyo, Japan)
甘い生活~la dolce vita~ presents「甘い静寂」

We are delighted that 12 & 1 SONG / Janis Crunch & haruka nakamura, which is also our best seller for 2011, is No.15 on our Japan distributor, p*dis/Inpartmaint Inc, year-end sales chart for 2011. In addition, ASPIDISTRAFLY / A LITTLE FABLE is selected as “BEST of 2011″ by the staff of p*dis / Inpartmaint Inc. Thank you Masami and Shin!

- P*DIS BEST OF 2011
- INPARTMAINT INC SALE CHART 2011

We are proud to announce that KITCHEN. LABEL editions are now stocked by iconic Japanese brand and retailer, BEAMS as well as artbook/zine distributor + bookshop UTRECHT/NOW IDeA (above)

- BEAMS RECORDS
- UTRECHT/NOW IDeA
- List of KITCHEN. LABEL stockists

ASPIDISTRAFLY had an interview with Pastel Records (Japan) about A LITTLE FABLE, their thoughts & visions behind it and more. Thank you to Kenji Terada for the interview and Masami Shimomura (p*dis) for the translation.

- ASPIDISTRAFLY interview on Pastel Records

‎2 of KITCHEN. LABEL’s releases, FJORDNE “Charles Rendition” and ASPIDISTRAFLY “A LITTLE FABLE”, have been selected as one of The Silent Ballet (USA) top 100 releases of 2011. With thanks to Jordan Volz and The SIlent Ballet team for the accolades.