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Date: Sat Dec 07 2002 - 22:11:35 CET

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    ECLECTIC Japan
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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

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    <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
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    <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>
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