Array mbiras pinging over Game Boy static, like wind chimes made of circuit boards. C418's "one" is the soundtrack to Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, but it works as a standalone album about making things and what happens after.
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The whole record floats between chiptune, ambient, and these strange orchestral passages played on actual mbiras. If you only know C418 from Minecraft's volume alpha, this is the weirder, more personal side of that same brain.