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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Kazuki Tomokawa
t i t l e : Erise No Me
d a t e : 2001
l a b e l : PSF PSFD-8008
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : November/2004
t r a c k s : 11
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 68,3 MB
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This was the ninth CD in the 13-CD Kazuki Tomokawa "Box"
released by PSF on 25 June 2003 (PSFD-134--146).
"Tomokawa's twelfth leader album on PSF (the title translates
as The Eyes of Elise), and hence his nineteenth in a career
that dates back to the mid-seventies. Tomokawa stands, together
with Kan Mikami, as one of the most unique singer-poets thrown
up by Japan's folk boom of the late sixties and early
seventies. Each new album from him represents not simpleminded
'progression' but a privileged glimpse into a sound continuum
as forcefully individual and special as any other name you
might want to drop in this field (duh -- Buckley, Drake,
Hurley, Jandek even). In Tomokawa's universe, melodies of
limpid and mellifluous grace rub shoulders with rhythmically
violently and convulsive purges of soul bile. Tomokawa's voice
is one of the most special in the Japanese underground: ragged,
strained and deeply accented, far removed from conventional
standards of singerly intonation, but undoubtedly a sound of
deeply human beauty. The group provide the ideal un-square
settings for Tomokawa's complex symbolist songs, at all times
attaining a perfect marriage of acoustic density and forward
lope. As an added bonus, long time admirer Keiji Haino adds
some trademark abyssal guitar on two tracks." -- Alan Cummings.
Original titles are in Japanese characters.
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01-Erise No Me part 1 [04:16]
02-Erise No Me part 2 [04:46]
03-Erise No Me part 3 [03:17]
04-Erise No Me part 4 [03:27]
05-Erise No Me part 5 [05:16]
06-Erise No Me part 6 [02:57]
07-Erise No Me part 7 [02:49]
08-Erise No Me part 8 [02:56]
09-Erise No Me part 9 [04:43]
10-Erise No Me part 10 [05:05]
11-Erise No Me part 11 [05:24]
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44:56 min
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