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World’s End Girlfriend ~ Hurtbreak Wonderland
The music of World’s End Girlfriend is wonderfully post-modern, a hodgepodge of sounds and instruments, an ambient chamber orchestra being overrun by an exuberant carnival dance-party. Somehow, Katsuhiko Maeda manages to create a convincing unity where others could see only chaos. By combining disparate elements, which by all accounts don’t make sense together, he has…
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Tim Hecker ~ Anoyo
Anoyo, which means “the world over there,” is the counterpart to last year’s glorious Konoyo, or “the world over here.” While the two are certainly closely related, both built around the prominent contributions of members of Tokyo Gakuso, it would be reductive to see Anoyo as merely a third disc of Konoyo. Tim Hecker has released…
Sound Propositions 