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pastoral circuses of the future
I don't think Nobukazu Takemura's album Child and Magic, released in 1997 by Warner Japan, has ever been released domestically, and more's the pity, since this disc is one of the odder ones in Takemura's catalog. He's mainly known stateside as a purveyor of fragmented, crystalline electronica, and that, indeed, is one facet of Child and Magic, but the disc also contains pieces more akin to affable J-pop, Reichian minimalism, or the gentle sort of electroacoustic music offered up by Lucky Kitchen.
This Friday's MP3, "Clown and Crown," is representative of the hybridity and scope of the album: it functions as a fantasy terrarium wherein stately violin, children's voices, electronic bloops and bleeps, circus-band horns, bird twitter, and gravelly noise can all come together to form a completely natural and balanced whole.
Listen:"Clown and Crown" Labels: audio, mp3s, music_commentary |
Friday, May 13, 2005
3:22 PM
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