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░ ▓█████████▓▓█▀ [ J U S T F U N . P R E S E N T S ] ▐█▄██▓▀
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░ ▓████▓▌ ░ Artist.......: Nagisa Ni Te ▐▓▀▀
▓ ▐█████▓█ Album........: The Same as A Flower ▀ ░
▀█▄▓████▓▓▄█▀ Genre........: Avantgarde ░▓ ▌
▄▀██▓██▓▓▀ Language.....: English ░▓░▐▓
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░▓▓░ ▐█▓▓ ░ ░▓▓░ playtime....: 50:44 min ░▓▓ ▐███████▓▓▌ ░
░░ ███▓▓ ▓▓░▓░ rip.date....: 16-09-2004 ░▓▓░ ▓███▀ ▀▓█▓▓ ░
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▀▓█████████████▓▓▓▀ ripper......: Just Team ░▓░ █▀ ░░▓▓▓ ▀▓
░ ▀▓██████▓██▓▓▀ ▓░ grabber.....: EAC V0.95 prebeta 4 ▓▓ ▀░ ░ ░ ░▓░ ░▀
▀▓█████▓▓▓ ░░▓ encoder.....: LAME version 3.90.3 ░▓▓░▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓░
░ ▐███████▓▓▌░▓▓▓░ size........: 62,9 MB ░▓▓▓▓▓ ▓░▓▓░░ ░
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▓████▓▌ 01. The Same as A Flower 06:45 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 02. Threads of Souls 04:51 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 03. River 03:49 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 04. A Light 05:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 05. Wife 04:42 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 06. Bramble 11:41 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 07. Beyond the Grass 05:59 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 08. After A Song 04:13 ▓▌
▓████▓▌ 09. Hope 03:02 ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ [ A B O U T . T H i S . R E L E A S E ] ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The American importation of modern Japanese music ▓▌
▓████▓▌ used to insinuate a strange sort of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ neo-orientalism-- one that, rather than exploiting ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the foreign and exotic "other," reveled in their ▓▌
▓████▓▌ exotic and foreign reflection of us. The mix of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ familiarity and strangeness in Japanese imitations ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of American forms produced an equally hazy mix of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ sincerity and novelty in enjoyment. But through ▓▌
▓████▓▌ experimentation with an ever-growing number of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Western underground genres, the Japanese have moved ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in their own, enviable direction. Lo-fi ▓▌
▓████▓▌ experimental rock is popular with the kids overseas ▓▌
▓████▓▌ (hence The Microphones' recent "Live in Japan"), ▓▌
▓████▓▌ but there are only a handful of reciprocal acts ▓▌
▓████▓▌ that have made it over here so far. Osaka-based duo ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Nagisa Ni Te are one, immersed in 60s/70s American ▓▌
▓████▓▌ psych-folk and a lo-fi connection to the natural ▓▌
▓████▓▌ world via imperfect multitracking and distracted ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitar strumming. Despite being billed as Japanese ▓▌
▓████▓▌ avant-folk, The Same as a Flower subsists on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ relatively standard, slow, guitar-based songs. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ Fortunately, Nagisa Ni Te avoid sounding ▓▌
▓████▓▌ derivative, and some unique characteristics set ▓▌
▓████▓▌ them apart as worthy of attention. The strongest of ▓▌
▓████▓▌ these is a pervasive aura of childlike innocence ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and wonder, usually an unconvincing pose when ▓▌
▓████▓▌ coming from American musicians. Shinju Shibayama ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and Masako Takeda's direct, unprocessed and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ imperfect singing strikes at a deep and sincere ▓▌
▓████▓▌ place. Some of their simple melodies are possessed ▓▌
▓████▓▌ with the placidity of lullabies, as in "A Light", ▓▌
▓████▓▌ while others run along the traditional pentatonic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ scale, such as in "Thread of Souls". Nagisa Ni Te's ▓▌
▓████▓▌ songs balance a home-recorded sense of creation and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ experimentation with a propensity to swell into ▓▌
▓████▓▌ grand orchestral finales. Yet while the mood ▓▌
▓████▓▌ remains wistful and appealing, the songwriting on ▓▌
▓████▓▌ The Same as a Flower is not that strong, offering ▓▌
▓████▓▌ few musical moments that linger beyond the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ immediate. This forgetablilty works on some level ▓▌
▓████▓▌ in their favor-- the album as a whole comes across ▓▌
▓████▓▌ as a wispy piece of lazy late-summer listening. But ▓▌
▓████▓▌ overall, that lightness is what prevents the record ▓▌
▓████▓▌ from the transcendence to which it aspires. ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ songwriting, the album's best moments occur when ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Nagisa Ni Te get creative with arrangement and ▓▌
▓████▓▌ production. "River" creates a big piece from a ▓▌
▓████▓▌ small idea, propelling a simple melody into rounds ▓▌
▓████▓▌ and canons that imitate the flowing, winding object ▓▌
▓████▓▌ of the song's title. "Wife" layers plucked, detuned ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitars over a percolating organ beat, offering an ▓▌
▓████▓▌ instrumental island before the 12-minute ▓▌
▓████▓▌ centerpiece "Bramble", which culminates in the ▓▌
▓████▓▌ album's most dense and distorted moment. The slide ▓▌
▓████▓▌ guitars and ending strings and harmonies of "After ▓▌
▓████▓▌ a Son" embody the blooming psychedelia that Nagisa ▓▌
▓████▓▌ Ni Te hint at elsewhere. And the sparse, acoustic ▓▌
▓████▓▌ closer "Hope" creates one of the album's most ▓▌
▓████▓▌ beautiful places, exemplifying the intimate, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ minimal sound that they're able to realize quite ▓▌
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▓████▓▌ The Same as a Flower didn't make much of an impact ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the first time around, but it drew me back to ▓▌
▓████▓▌ repeated listens, and grew grander each time. After ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the standard melodicism and fairly reserved sound, ▓▌
▓████▓▌ there remains something undeniably appealing about ▓▌
▓████▓▌ this male/female duo's unpretentious yet confident ▓▌
▓████▓▌ delivery. If they can start writing songs that meet ▓▌
▓████▓▌ the standard of the musical stage they set, then ▓▌
▓████▓▌ we'll have a take on some classic genres that ▓▌
▓████▓▌ itself is worthy of imitation. ▓▌
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