CORNELIUS announces North American tour for Spring 2027. New album 'REFRACTIONS' out now! "Mirrors" live video online.

CORNELIUS - Announces North American tour for Spring '27 - 11 dates across the US and Canada in March & April - Includes Big Ears Festival in Knoxville - "Mirrors" Live at Zepp Shinjuku video online now - New album 'REFRACTIONS' out now on Eat Your Own Ears Recordings

Photo credit: HIDEAKI HAMADA "[REFRACTIONS] expands the composer-producer’s sometimes introspective and insular sound into something closer to his all-hands, J-rock concert extravaganzas." - Pitchfork, Most Anticipated Albums of the Summer "Japan's immaculately produced, playful answer to Prince's genre-bending genius." - 8/10 Uncut ""Aeons" unfolds like relaxed, jazzy fun in a hall of mirrors. Little riffs appear on a changing assortment of instruments, then bounce around between left and right, never predictably" - New York Times "Centered on a tight plastic groove, with Ono Lennon’s smooth vocals gliding through the mic" - Stereogum “An absolute blast.” - Electronic Sound Cornelius has announced a run of US and Canadian tour dates for spring 2027. The 11-date tour will take in many cities he has never visited before and some he hasn't played for many years, including Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC, Carrboro, Knoxville, Madison, Minneapolis, Chicago, Toronto, Montreal and Somerville, as well as an appearance at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival. An audio-video pioneer, renowned for his ever-evolving A/V show, the announcement of these new dates follows Cornelius’s recent sold out tour of Japan, which saw him perform a newly crafted show across the country in support of his new album. To give fans an idea of what to expect from the forthcoming dates, today he has shared a video of the track "Mirrors" performed at Live at Zepp Shinjuku in Tokyo, the 5-camera fixed angle footage giving an insight into the vibrant and immersive world he has created to accompany these new songs. Watch "Mirrors" (Live at Zepp Shinjuku/Oct. 6th, 2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ned8A1DXeBI Cornelius live dates: 25 March — Philadelphia, PA — Ardmore Music Hall 27 March — New York, NY — Irving Plaza 29 March — Washington, DC — Howard Theatre 31 March — Carrboro, NC — Cat’s Cradle 2 April — Knoxville, TN — Big Ears Festival 4 April — Madison, WI — Majestic Theatre 5 April — Minneapolis, MN — Fine Line 7 April — Chicago, IL — Thalia Hall 10 April — Toronto, ON — The Opera House 11 April — Montreal, QC — Théâtre Beanfield 13 April — Somerville, MA — Somerville Theatre 19 June — London, UK — Barbican Tickets: https://www.corneliusjapan.com/tour For more than three decades, Cornelius has occupied a singular space in contemporary music. The long-running project of Japanese musician, producer and composer Keigo Oyamada, Cornelius emerged in the early 1990s following the dissolution of Tokyo pop group Flipper’s Guitar, becoming one of the most distinctive and forward-thinking names in modern experimental pop. His 1997 breakthrough 'Fantasma' established Oyamada as a restless sonic architect, combining psychedelic pop, electronic music, musique concrète, hip hop and avant-garde composition. He has since collaborated with Blur, Beck, MGMT, James Brown and Yoko Ono, while his precision-synchronised live shows blur the line between concert and audiovisual installation. Now, 'REFRACTIONS' marks the beginning of another transformation. Written between the end of 2024 and 2025, the album explores perception, shifting realities, memory and interconnected consciousness through structure, texture and movement. Songs dissolve and reform as acoustic instrumentation, digital manipulation and spectral electronics coexist, while contributions from Sean Ono Lennon, Arto Lindsay, Shintaro Sakamoto and Bid of The Monochrome Set reflect Oyamada’s desire to open the work through collaboration and exchange. Despite its conceptual undercurrents, 'REFRACTIONS' remains playful, curious and emotionally open, drawing on psychedelic pop, ambient, Brazilian tropicália, kosmische experimentation and minimalist composition. 'REFRACTIONS' was released earlier this year on Eat Your Own Ears Recordings following pre-release singles "Yumenemi", “Aeons" (ft. Sean Ono Lennon) and "Twisting & Glistening". ‘‘REFRACTIONS’’ album links: https://linktr.ee/Cornelius_Japan 'REFRACTIONS' track list: 1. Refractions 2. まざらない / Mazaranai 3. You Make Me Cyborg 4. Aeons - visualizer 5. Mirrors 6. Bad Advice 7. 夢寝見 / Yumenemi - official video 8. Twisting & Glistening - visualizer 9. 溶解線 / Dissolving Line Links: https://www.corneliusjapan.com/ https://www.instagram.com/corneliusofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/corneliusofficial https://x.com/corneliusjapan https://www.eatyourownears.com/releases https://eatyourownearsrecordings.bandcamp.com/