Kodomo album release with UCC Harlo and Zane Kanevsky

The Portland-based electronic artist and composer Kodomo (Chris Child) celebrates his 6th solo LP, Sisu, a meditation on courage, beauty, and persistence in an age of disassociation.

Kodomo is the moniker of Emmy Award-winning composer Chris Child, whose work spans IDM, minimalism, techno, and cinematic ambient music. His catalog includes Still Life, Patterns & Light, Three Spheres, and Epocha. In 2018, Child co-founded Foil Imprints, an artist-run label dedicated to forward-thinking electronic music.

His sixth full length album, Sisu is an intimate statement on resilience, drawn from the Finnish word that embodies determination, grit, and quiet strength in the face of adversity. Created in what Kodomo calls “an age of disassociation”, Sisu is a deliberate act of slow craft—music made with patience, reflection, and discipline in a time defined by fleeting attention. It moves through themes of longing, beauty, restlessness, self-doubt, and the search for courage, inspired by friends and fellow artists who continue to create despite challenges. Stylistically, the album channels the euphoric pulse of early 90s rave and IDM, weaving in fragmented, abstracted vocals—more prominent than on any previous Kodomo record—by Annie Garlid (UCC Harlo) and Elissa (Tawnylawns). The album unfolds as a richly textured and cinematic listening experience, built from layers of analog synths, drum machines, live percussion, and processed sounds. Drawing inspiration from collage-based ambient pioneers such as The Orb, Sisu also weaves in UK Garage beats and electro percussion. Field recordings thread throughout the album, serving as a narrative to Kodomo’s travels.

In the project UCC Harlo, Annie Garlid stages sonic communions between the old and the new, contemplates contemporary relationships to the natural world, and casts music as mood. As a classically-trained viola player and singer, she reworks her own performances of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music or begins from scratch, infiltrating electronic textures with liturgical choral riffs, off-the-cuff recordings, and spoken vocals. All of these elements comb the territories between doubt and wonder. Annie released her debut album, United, in March 2019 and her second album, Topos, in May 2023, both on Subtext Recordings. She has performed at Public Records (NYC), IRL Gallery (NYC), Berlin Atonal, CTM Festival (Berlin), Donaufestival (Austria), 3hD Festival (Berlin), Commend (NYC), Nowadays (NYC), Epsilon Spires (Brattleboro, VT) and has been featured on Bayerische Rundfunk, Sveriges Radio, and ORF FM4.

Zane Kanevsky is a computer music artist, composer and producer living in Portland, Maine.