No Music Station for me to blather on about this week, so instead Make Believe Melodies has decided to open the week with a grab bag of news we didn’t get to last week but still worth knowing. With a bonus obnoxious mini review, oh boy! Salyu X Salyu (Salyu and Cornelius) Release Video For…
Turns out the Salyu-Cornelius project won’t be a rehash of Bjork’s Medulla. Early previews and descriptions hinted at an album using the J-Pop singer’s voice as a base, but newly released song “Muse’ic” reveals that won’t be entirely the case. Here the structure comes courtesy of Cornelius’ bright keyboard hiccups, popping up in every corner….
Welp, here’s my most anticipated Japanese album of 2011. J-Pop siren Salyu boasts an absolutely attention-grabbing voice, able to transform what should have been ho-hum J-Pop into something special. Musical tinkerer Cornelius creates forward-thinking pastiches, having released a handful of excellent albums and putting together one of the best (and precise!) live shows around. Tokyo…
30. Salyu “新しいYES” A lot has changed since I first wrote about this song back on April 1st…I don’t know what chemicals I got slizzered on when I compared Salyu to Erykah Badu and Cosmogramma ran away with my “album of 2010” honors…but this track’s selling point stays the same. I can assure you no…
For the most part, I’m not a big fan of Salyu. Listening to a smattering of songs off her recently released album Maiden Voyage left me pretty unimpressed. A few interesting production ideas here and there (peep the stripped down march of “HALFWAY”), but for the most part straightforward vegan vanilla flavored J-Pop anchored by…