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New Cosmoman: “Seaside Promenade”
Forgive me for the ol’ “talk about an appropriate name!” fallback — but Kobe’s Cosmoman’s music has, for the most part, tended to deliver on the name, sounding spacey, or at least worthy of being studied in a NASA laboratory. “Seaside Promenade” brings things back below the atmosphere, ignoring “futuristic” for something more laid back….
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Concert alert for anyone residing in or near Osaka – harp-maestro Joanna Newsom will play Sunsui on Saturday, February 6th. Regularly, a show by her would be special enough, but she has promised a new album on her out at the end of February so this will be a great opportunity to hear some new…
New Oomori Seiko: “Dogma Magma”
I don’t have much time as I need to go to sleep, but…new Oomori Seiko! “Dogma Magma” is from her forthcoming new full-length, and it is a good bit of twisty-turvy pop, a song that knows how to keep things interesting but also never abandons the pop core that has been vital to her work….
New LLLL: Chains “Phase 2: Remain”
New month means a new installment of LLLL’s “Chains” series, and we’ve reached the time for an EP. Which, in one writer’s humble opinion, is a welcome arrival after a busy five days. Chains “Phase 2: Remain” moves in a more meditative direction than the Phase 1 EP, the songs here featuring guest vocalist Yeule…
New Daisuke Tanabe: “Origami”
Producer Daisuke Tanabe has a new album on the way, and he’s shared a little of it with XLR8R. “Origami” features off-kilter…damn, they already beat me to that description…how about Tanabe that fuzzy…gahhhh, OK…hold on, let me throw the adjectives out the window. Tanabe has always chased more creative – alternatively, weirder – ideas down,…
New Toyomu: “The Palace”
In a little over a week’s time, Toyomu (mandatory “it is actually all caps, TOYOMU, if you want to know”) shares his debut EP, Zekkei, featuring all original material. This is kind of misleading — more like his first without using any samples, or at least samples he made himself — but the end result…