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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
SHOUSETSU
Radicalfashion
Odori
Hefty : 2007
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I like "dreamy" music, sure, but I love music that actually replicates the stuff of dreams. This seemingly benign composition by Japan's Radicalfashion frightens me in ways I can't quite pin down. It holds me in such perfect thrall that I don't want to say to much, save that I think it has something to do with the sense of dreamtime imposing itself on the waking world. The lovely piano nocturne is pure aether, but the rhythm track is staunchly corporeal; they hold each other in a trembling suspension, like a memory just on the verge of recollection. Do you hear it as a semi-lucid deathbed reverie too, or something entirely other? I'm listening to it right now, and everything banal in my little office seems transformed, imbued with the ineffable significance of dreams. My cigarette, in a bright shaft of sunlight, looks like something bleeding underwater. The paler sunlight playing on the walls, come to think of it, looks sub-aquatic as well, as if I'm in an aquarium. Submersion is one of the music's qualities, then, but there are others - ordinary objects are transformed into portents; I feel as if I could read the scatter of pens on my desk as if they were the bones of a bird. Birds, too, suffuse this song, ruffling dark feathers, held aloft by their delicate and perfectly balanced bone structures. Images flip and transpose, all sky-bound. Stars or starlings? Either way, it's a pleasure to observe their gentle pirouettes earthward, bathed in whatever soft glow, for these several breath-arresting minutes.Labels: brian, dreams, electronic, piano
posted by Brian
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