Tokyo Dreams

Tokyo Dreams

Artist: Magnus Lassila
Release Year: 2023

Description: Part modular meditation, part vintage synth reverie — Tokyo Dream is an album built from memory, imagination, and a lifetime of quiet Japanophilia.
Blending modular improvisation with more structured compositions, the album features everything from classic sequencers to lush pads and looping arpeggios.
One key voice throughout is the Siel Cruise, whose soft, retro textures anchor the sound in a kind of imagined 1980s dreamspace.
But this isn’t nostalgia. It’s aesthetic longing — a sonic postcard from a Tokyo that exists partly in memory, partly in dreams.
Some tracks pulse with sequencer energy. Others drift like light through shōji screens.
All of it adds up to something not quite here, not quite there — just where it needs to be. Faults and all.