The deeper we get into the decade, the more remarkable Mei Ehara’s discography becomes. The singer/songwriter created some of the most bracing music in recent memory out of Japan under the name May.e, using just an acoustic guitar and her voice. She switched to the name Mei Ehara, and has added bit more to her…
Maybe this is what intense fandom really feels like…grasping for any crumb of new music even when it explicitly makes it clear this isn’t the final product. But it feels like a while since May.e shared new music…I think it was about a year ago…so the emergence of “Maiasa,” even in “demo” form, is a…
I feel like there are two ways to approach this album, a collaborative effort between the hypnotic singer-songwriter may.e and Oka: 1. The more I listen to may.e’s music, the more I become convinced she’s my favorite artist in Japan at the moment. Nobody else in the country’s music scene does so much with so…
Clip art forever 5. Metome Objet It was another solid year for the Kansai electronic music scene, and 2015 looks like it will keep the trend rolling – just look at this Seiho and Avec Avec video! Still, the best-album-out-of-the-region race ended really early in 2014 – Osaka’s Metome dropped Objet just as the calendar…
1. What has been stunning about the music released by Tokyo artist May.e up until now has been her ability to turn nothing but acoustic guitar and her voice…and every once in a while, the slightest of percussion…into a hypnotic swirl. She pulled a nifty trick last year by releasing two albums, a move that…