Ai Yamamoto is a Japanese born and Melbourne, Australia based artist who has been making music since the early 2000's. With her first album on PITP, 'Love me Tender,' Ai composes free structured songs, brushed with gentle melodies using piano, strings, wind instruments, and various textures. Created over the span of 2018-2020, Ai's careful focus on the mixing process give the tracks a spacious yet intimate sound through mindful cultivation. Dedicating this album to family, friends and her children who have given her their hearts, 'Love me Tender' feels much like a love letter, whispering that we can always choose to find a way to be filled with hope (Kibou) and find ourselves again.-- PAST INSIDE THE PRESENT

From Ai Yamamoto
In Melbourne, the city in which I live with my family, we faced an extended period of lockdown in 2020.
During these long winter months, I recorded a lot of samples of my iso life from morning to night. As the process wore on I became quite fascinated with these sounds, some of them so familiar and domestic that I decided to turn them into music.
All the sounds of this album are made strictly from materials coming from these domestic field recordings. Even though parts are quite melodic and tonal, no instruments were used at all. It is a sound diary and one whose sounds would be familiar for many people living in Melbourne. The sounds of morning, the chatter of remote learning, the ceaseless flow of house chores, physical activity in our brief moments outside and evenings where we all just try to wind down.
Those days were all about routine, and the mundane qualities of life became a kind of daily ritual that was full of repetition and loops. These are the spark for this album and it becomes a document of this curious moment in time that will linger with us all going forward.