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HAMAYOKO - hamaYoko 4/29

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Entr'acte E48 Release Year: 2007 Note: first solo-release of this female Japanese composer; with help of HIGASHI and LIONEL MARCHETTI; lim. 300 special sealed bags (silver) Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info “In my dream, I see sentences written on the ground of a false desert” hamaYôko is Yôko Higashi’s musique concrète-influenced electro-pop project. hamaYôko 4/29, mixed and mastered by Higashi and Lionel Marchetti, is her first solo release. First edition of 300 copies" [label info] "... Behind hamaYôko is Yôko Higashi, who is 'a performer, vocalist, choreographer and dancer', formed Yokohama Zen Rocks in 2003, and the duo Octobriana with violinist Agathe Max. She also worked with Keith Rowe, Tomas Korber and Lionel Marchetti. The latter helped her out with mixing her first CD '4/29' and that's where the bizarre aspect comes in. What to think of it? We hear lots of vocals, set against a most curious set of electronics that can perhaps be best described as musique concrete. Yet the vocals are more resembling popmusic than classically sung tunes, even when Yôko can bend her voice like a true Cathy Barberian, although not always a steady as the sad Cathy. But Yôko also throws in walls of guitar samples which add more to the confusion I think. I am not entirely convinced about this approach, to be honest. Sometimes it puts a curious smile on my face, but as a whole it was too bizarre for me. I have no clue what she wants: create odd popmusic? Make fun to musique concrete? Is it serious art or a good laugh? Certainly one that should end up in the section marked with '?' in your local record store. But perhaps I am entirely mistaken and we deal with something radically new. Who am I to tell?" [FdW / Vital Weekly] www.entracte.co.uk