Peek-Ara-Boo

Synapse, “Peek-Ara-Boo” (Tzadik, 2)
Collaboration between two titans of the international avant-art-noise-rock-improv underground who also happen to be Japanese women – DNA-drummer-turned-electronic-percussion-polymath Ikue Mori and vocalist/found-sound-collagist Haco.
The Japanese echoes are clearest in some of Haco’s melodies and a certain use of space and silence, but it’s most reminiscent of (and seriously of comparable quality to) Eno’s “Another Green World” LP. It has the same quality of genuine ambience, i. e. creating a model of the random everyday world, but with all of its hidden depths and contrast brought into a breathtakingly sharp relief that has a certain unassuming magic about it.
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3/18/18