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| | | poon village (usa) #pv 005 cd daisuke tobari “till the end of the dream” compact disc - untitled (1) (1:38)
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| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "untitled (11)" |
| for the 411 on this particular disc ; i’ll hand the (virtual) pen over to geoff mullen ::
fantastic (and still in print!) cd by daisuke tobari on the now defunct poon village imprint. till the end of the dream is a collection of 19 songs, all nameless and mostly about two minutes in length. and although this cd was released in the year 2000, supposedly it's a reissue of a cassette that tobari self-released in japan in 1995. the cd itself comes packaged in a jewelcase with hand silk-screened inserts - each cd a different set of colors - on nice heavy cardstock.
after it opens with a short blast of psychedelic amplified vocal chanting, the cd continues to play like a triptych through many different imagined worlds of strange folk music - interspersed with alternately funny, short, and infectious songs that tobari sings in english, japanese, and a mix of yelps, growls, whistling, and guttural slurs. what really sets this far apart from your average home-recorded bedroom psych oddity is tobari's ability to make this seem like a bunch of off-the-cuff experiments despite the obvious well-composed nature of most of these songs. he's a fantastic multi-instrumentalist, and he gracefully weaves his guitar around an arsenal of flutes, percussion, vocals, tapes, outer-space keyboards, and other noise. it's refreshing to hear someone who can make recordings like this and seem to get everything just right...
there's a nameless and mysterious quality to this music, perhaps aided along by the fact that no one seems to know anything about daisuke tobari. and although the tracks seem like they were put together in an almost random order, there's a kind of sad emotional continuity to it that keeps it held together, as well as a general slightly-out-of-tuneness and lo-fi psychedelic glory - the vocals and percussion are heavily dosed with a short delay throughout, and everything is bathed in different degrees of tape hiss and murk.
what we're told from the liner notes is that this is a tribute to the japanese novelist/playwright kobo abe. perhaps most famous for penning the classic woman in the dunes, but maybe we should look for hints in abe's first collection of poetry entitled mumei shishu, aka poems of an unknown poet...
one of my favorite cds, definitely a desert-island pick, throw it in your cd player and put it on repeat! |
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| | poon village press release... |
| first offered to earth on cassette available only in japan circa 1995, these recordings prove tobari as an eloquent ambassador from the hidden planet of the imagination. with a unique hybrid of bedroom ambiance and uni-versal atmospherics, singer-songwriter daisuki tobari weaves his folk stylings into a tapestry of oblique lullabies, introverted expansionism & timeless cosmic plunder. obscure & sublime ruminations on the essence of endlessness draw parallels with the maverick visions of magical power mako, sun city girls, jandek & the holy modal rounders.
fold-out sleeve (packed in cd jewelbox) screenprinted by the legendary original c.o.n. artists serigraph company. file under: turgid clarity & lucid murk.
-- damon krukowksi. |
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