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THE BEAUTIFUL SCHIZOPHONIC & YUI ONODERA - Night Blossom

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Whereabouts Records WHACD-7 Release Year: 2011 Note: second Portugese/Japanese collaboration album by these two "minimal beauty-ambience" composers, on a promising new label from Japan.. recommended for listeners who love introspective stuff like ANDREW CHALK, STEPHEN VITIELLO, ROBERT HAIGH... Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.50 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info "The Extreme Beauty. This Ambient/Drone is an overly beautiful production of Yui Onodera, the Portuguese Drone artist who leads the Beautiful Schizophonic and Japanese Ambient scene. It is the second collaborative work followed up on a previous work, 'Radiance.' This album is available in two packages: the world limited edition of 100 Tin Box and card wallet. This is the second collaborative work of Jorge Mantas known as Portuguese's The Beautiful Schizophonic and Yui Onodera. 'Night Blossom' succeeded and repolished the delicateness and lucidity in Ambient/Drone to the previous collaborative work 'Radiance,' which is released in 2009 and aroused considerable interest worldwide. Its sensitive Drone that is like an aggregate of particles floating in the air and the soundscape that is scaled up with its processed natural sound and the full-of-sights piano sound are well described in the work. Four Japanese musicians participate in this piece: elfog's magnificent Vibraphone (M-4) which conveys the image of a boundless swamp, and Taishi Kamiya's M-5 that creates new kind of sensibility by processing soprano saxophone, Naomi Sato's field recording (M-5), and Miko's Japanese poetry reading (M-6). The voice enfolds the sensitive Drone, leaving a lasting impression.'Night Blossom' is available in two different packages. The world limited edition of 100 Tin Box contains photo-cards and a track list sheet, and impressive artwork arranging a female model makes the jacket of Card Wallet, the regular package." [label info] www.whereabouts-records.com "Somehow I must admit I like the work of Portuguese Jorge Mantas, also known as The Beautiful Schizophonic. His music very much rooted in the world of laptops with long sustaining sounds and may not something very new, but his moody electronics have unmistakably a romantic notion over it, and that's something happen to like. Not because its good, per se, but because its different than his peers. Here he teams up with Yui Onodera who takes the credit for piano, electric guitars, environmental sounds and processing. In the opening piece 'Dreaming In The Proximity Of Mars' is a very kitschy piece of new age piano set against Mantas' dark drones, so perhaps its too alien for real lovers of the real new age. It returns later in 'Nubian Clouds Over Saskia', but its not a lead for the entire album. In a piece like 'Akathisia' things become more experimental with field recordings, processed and clicky sounds. In pieces like 'Washing In Slow Colours' and 'This Crying Age' (with poetry reading by one Miko) the fat washes of synthesizer sounds (no doubt something that is processed on the laptop by Mantas, using a vocoder like plug-ins, think GAS), but come without the piano sounds, and perhaps more guitar from Onodera. In 'Siamese Bloom' we have cicadas singing. Its all together quite a nice album, varied in its five approaches, not always strong (the piano!) but the moody music works well. A pleasant album to wake with on a rainy day." [FdW/Vital Weekly]