Artist : Izumi Misawa
Title : Speaking Behind The Raindrops
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2008
Date : 11/2008
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Symbolic Interaction SIC007
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 43:44 min
Size : 60,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.chocolate 02:45
02.pray for rain 06:49
03.chairs 07:11
04.hanabira 02:14
05.loop-end 04:09
06.waiting for... 03:59
07.hakoniwa 02:50
08.vertical traveler 05:53
09.birthday 02:24
10.shizuku 05:30
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43:44 min
NOTE: These weird noices in track_1 are
like that on the CD.
So I suppose they are wanted.
These's been some wonderful old sounds out of Japan
in the last year few months, ranging from delightful
quirk-tronica to mad as badgers neo classical.....to
quality post-rock. They're making some of the smug
Pitchfork endorsed rubbish look seriously dull.
Look, i'd rather have my ears bitten off by a randy
squirrel and made into a Cornish pastie than have to
suffer ATP curated by the once majestic EITS.
But then I slave in a stupidly busy record store to earn
my cynical badges, thanks. Enough of that anyway...
i'm liking lots this CD by Izumi Misawa. It's a heartfelt
& playful CD of twinkle, bloop & glitch called 'Speaking
Behind the Raindrops'.
The lady in question has one of those wondrous childlike
voices that divide opinion much like the Mum lady from
Iceland. What you get for yer hard earned wonga is some
very organic, occasionally abstract & wayward sounds
sprinkled with Oriental glee, really pleasing to the ears
(no, that squirrel ended up in the pastie ;o]) I'm at a (slight)
loss to describe the music as it is quite drifting & freeform like,
a collection of slowly unravelled sound collages that have
found each other and require a big hug. It's all very beautiful
& relaxing but if you want a terrace anthem, you are fucked.
To assist, she endorses & embraces all this lot: "vibraphone,
marimba, glockenspiel, kalimba, moon-bell, hand cranked
music box, kawai-toy piano, Schoenhut toy piano, bass-melodion,
MFB, ion, CS-01, voice, kaoss-pad, effect,rooms, toys, many
many percussions....." AWW!
She's a bit magic this lass so if yr a fan of that crackers Icelandic
collective, Psapp or Coleen, you may well be totally taken with
her lovely way with an instrument. CD only on Symbolic Interaction.
http://www.symbolicinteraction.net