Artist : Small Color
Title : In Light
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2009
Date : 10/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 11
Label : 12k
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 37:29 min
Size : 40,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.In Light 01:54
02.Daisy 03:58
03.Life 04:09
04.Arrows Of Time 04:23
05.Nowhere Near 03:03
06.Hideaway 02:24
07.Heaven Knows 04:02
08.Amaoto 04:01
09.Moss 01:48
10.Hikari No Hana 04:16
11.Lemmy 03:31
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37:29 min
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IN LIGHT
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CAT.NO: 12k1057
RELEASE: OCTOBER 2009
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TRACKS:
01 In Light
02 Daisy
03 Life
04 Arrows Of Time
05 Nowhere Near
06 Hideaway
07 Heaven Knows
08 Amaoto
09 Moss
10 Hikari No Hana
11 Lemmy
Four years after the release of their
debut album Outflow, JapanÆs Small
Color, a duo comprised of Rie Yoshihara
(aka Trico!) (accordion, voice, vintage
keyboard instruments) and Yusuke Onishi
(guitar, banjo, bass, programming and
production) are back with the
beautifully polished In Light. This
album marks what some may consider a
departure for 12k: sublime and gentle,
minimal, acoustic J-pop, which once may
have been destined for the now-defunct
Happy label, but can now sit comfortably
beside 12kÆs roster of
electronic/acoustic ambient hybrids.
For the past 4 years, Small Color has
been performing live and honing their
sound. Inspired mostly by the very act
of performing and the way their sound
relates to interactions with a live
audience, In Light is truly a mature
album with a very focused aesthetic.
Being primarily an acoustic band, their
recordings are not created in front of a
computer screen. With the musicianship
of Yoshihara, an accomplished accordion
player and instructor, and Onishi, who
plays guitar for many artists in Japan,
live performance and songwriting are
what Small Color is all about, as is
quite evident on In Light.
Small ColorÆs sound encompasses many
moods in its modest shell: joy, sorrow,
love and sadness, the feelings of
everyday life, with influences from such
diverse musical genres as jazz, world
music, pop and experimentalism, as well
as design, architecture and cooking (Rie
is an accomplished chef and has a recipe
book being published in the near
future). Their songs are delicate yet
rich in texture, brimming with the warm
sounds of electric pianos, acoustic
guitar, glockenspiel, accordion, toy
pianos and a studio full of other
instruments accented by small beatboxes,
electronic sprinklings, and RieÆs
faraway and lulling voice with lyrics in
both Japanese and English.
The first 1000 copies of In Light will
be packaged in a full-color slipcase
over the ubiquitous 12k digipack and the
release of the CD will coincide with the
digital-only release of the remixed
single fora Hikari No Hana.
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