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june.17.2001 - #659
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artist : Susumu Yokota
album : Grinning Cat
year : 2001
label : Leaf
genre : Lo-Fi
catalogue : BAY 17CD
url : www.posteverything.com/leaf
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.Susumu Yokota - I Imagine 02:34
02.Susumu Yokota - King Dragonfly 04:42
03.Susumu Yokota - Card Nation 04:00
04.Susumu Yokota - Sleepy Eye 02:44
05.Susumu Yokota - Lapis Lazuli 03:49
06.Susumu Yokota - Balloon in the Cage 01:02
07.Susumu Yokota - Cherry Blossom 05:25
08.Susumu Yokota - Love Bird 03:49
09.Susumu Yokota - Fearful Dream 04:10
10.Susumu Yokota - Tears of A Poet 04:36
11.Susumu Yokota - So Red 03:23
12.Susumu Yokota - Flying Cat 05:52
13.Susumu Yokota - Lost Child 03:26
13 tracks | 49:32 mins | 68,2 MB
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Susumu Yokota came to the attention of the clued-up musical public
with Grinning Cat's predecessor Sakura, a minor ambient classic
that found this homely Japanese sound technician showered with
critical plaudits, and compared--not without good reason, we might
add--to 1970s ambient pioneer Brian Eno. While Eno's classic Music
for Airports was a muzak benchmark for sound in the public sphere,
Yokota's muse follows an urge towards the bliss of privacy;
Grinning Cat is, Yokota explains, an album about living out a
domestic fairytale with his girlfriend and a family of cats in the
quiet suburbs of Tokyo. Its essence is the exquisitely layered
minimalism of "King Dragonfly" where hands clap, drums
pitter-patter, wind chimes gentle sway and an acoustic guitar is
neatly picked to create an ornate, yet uniform tapestry of
sounds--but deeper into "Grinning Cat", more disquieting moments
simmer. On "Fearful Dream", psychedelic pipes and an atonal banjo
strum bubble under the gentle, stuttering loop of sparse piano,
while album closer "Lost Child" breathes spectral hushes and
unsettling glitches through alternate speakers in the most
disconcerting manner. Still, Yokota is only playing; Grinning Cat
is a perfect find for fans of the quiet stuff--warm, comforting and
always welcoming to visitors. --amazon.co.uk
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