From: Wesley (wesleyhongkong@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 22:11:35 CET
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ECLECTIC Japan
[Sound :: Lounge] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoundLounge
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Album Review :: Nirohide Ogurusu/Humour
see my previous post on him for a mp3 sound sample:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soundlounge/message/3813
-Wesley
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source: Junk Media
Ogurusu Norihide
Humour
Carpark, 2002
Humour is minimalism at its best, drawing together simple acoustic
guitars, distant pianos and laptop clicks into a string of thoughtful
themes. A spectral, reflective tone marks all of Ogurusu Norhide's work
here, as if each of these pieces were commemorating hidden storylines
and daily events.
At points he sounds a bit like the more reflective side of Mogwai, with
guitars making patient love, not war. Elsewhere, electronic clicks
saunter off like padded soles on a stone floor. Humour actually compiles
two self-released EPs, study and I. The tracks are titled with their
length (i.e. "3:13", a practice drawn from the John Cage playbook) and
work together perfectly.
The difference between the two EPs is the only sticking point in the
sequencing and presentation, as the older I is more rigorously minimal:
one track ("6:50") consists almost entirely of two guitar chords played
over and over at spaced intervals. In lesser hands, such an exercise
would bore to distraction, but Norihide manages to infuse fragility,
hope and a sense of longing into these simple, shadowy forms.
It makes perfect sense that Norihide has recently been ordained as a
Shinto priest in Japan. Humour lopes along with the grace of a man with
nothing to prove and suggests a man making music for no reason beyond
his own enjoyment. That the results are so astonishing is almost a side
note. Beautiful stuff.
Ben Sterling
-- ECLECTIC Japan [Sound :: Lounge] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoundLounge --------------DEA18E69E8830CD485E8A03A Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> ECLECTIC Japan <br>[Sound :: Lounge] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoundLounge <p>-------- Original Message -------- <br><b>Album Review :: Nirohide Ogurusu/Humour</b> <p>see my previous post on him for a mp3 sound sample: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soundlounge/message/3813 <br>-Wesley <br>----- <p>source: Junk Media <p><b>Ogurusu Norihide</b> <br>Humour <br>Carpark, 2002 <p>Humour is minimalism at its best, drawing together simple acoustic guitars, distant pianos and laptop clicks into a string of thoughtful themes. A spectral, reflective tone marks all of Ogurusu Norhide's work here, as if each of these pieces were commemorating hidden storylines and daily events. <p>At points he sounds a bit like the more reflective side of Mogwai, with guitars making patient love, not war. Elsewhere, electronic clicks saunter off like padded soles on a stone floor. Humour actually compiles two self-released EPs, study and I. The tracks are titled with their length (i.e. "3:13", a practice drawn from the John Cage playbook) and work together perfectly. <p>The difference between the two EPs is the only sticking point in the sequencing and presentation, as the older I is more rigorously minimal: one track ("6:50") consists almost entirely of two guitar chords played over and over at spaced intervals. In lesser hands, such an exercise would bore to distraction, but Norihide manages to infuse fragility, hope and a sense of longing into these simple, shadowy forms. <p>It makes perfect sense that Norihide has recently been ordained as a Shinto priest in Japan. Humour lopes along with the grace of a man with nothing to prove and suggests a man making music for no reason beyond his own enjoyment. That the results are so astonishing is almost a side note. Beautiful stuff. <p>Ben Sterling <p>-- <br>ECLECTIC Japan <br>[Sound :: Lounge] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SoundLounge</html> --------------DEA18E69E8830CD485E8A03A--
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