TAKADA, Midori/MASAHIKO SATOH - Lunar Cruise (reissue) - Vinyl (LP)
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information Midori TAKADA/MASAHIKO SATOH Lunar Cruise (reissue)(LP + CD + insert) WRWTFWW Switzerland
Cat: WRWTFWW 20. Rel: 25 Sep 17
Ambient/Drone
Side 1 - Track 1. Nahm Side 1 - Track 2. Ancient Palace Side 1 - Track 3. A Vanished Illusion Side 1 - Track 4. Jyomuran Side 1 - Track 5. Monody Side 2 - Track 1. In "D" Side 2 - Track 2. Madorone Side 2 - Track 3. Chang-Dra Side 2 - Track 4. Lunar Cruise Side 3 - Track 1. Iron Paradise Side 3 - Track 2. Nahm Side 3 - Track 3. Ancient Palace Side 3 - Track 4. A Vanished Illusion Side 3 - Track 5. Jyomuran Side 3 - Track 6. Monody Side 3 - Track 7. In D Side 3 - Track 8. Madorone Side 3 - Track 9. Chang-Dra Side 3 - Track 10. Lunar Cruise
Earlier in the year, WRWTFWW and Palto Flats both reissued Japanese percussionist Midori Takada's brilliant 1983 debut album, Through The Looking Glass. Now WRWTFWW has gone a step further, releasing another hard-to-find touchstone of Japanese ambient: Takada's 1990 collaboration with jazz pianist Masahiko Satoh, Lunar Cruise. It's another sublime set, all told, with Takada's impeccable percussion work - both jazz-style free drumming and more melodious instruments such as marimba, kalimba and xylophone - being complemented by Satah's slick and atmospheric synthesziers. It's perhaps a little more challenging in places than Through The Looking Glass - some tracks are dense and tribal in tone, or unashamedly experimental - but rarely less than wonderfully atmospheric.
