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Cat: TR 07. Rel: 7 Oct 24
Modern Classical

Side 1 - Track 1. BlueSide 1 - Track 2. TrueSide 1 - Track 3. WhiteSide 1 - Track 4. TalkSide 1 - Track 5. WonderSide 2 - Track 1. LakeSide 2 - Track 2. SoilSide 2 - Track 3. WaltzSide 2 - Track 4. PraySide 2 - Track 5. Silence

Ambient mastermind Haruka Nakamura continues to execute his scheme to produce four albums centring on a verdant theme - "Forest" (Aoimori). This time he shares the third album in the slated quadriptych. Building on the legend that the birthplace of all musical instruments was the forested area, the Aoimori series also takes after Nakamura's own formative proximity to a "Blue Forest" near his hometown. Not stooping to the low of assuming that electronica might become abstracted from the groves, canopies and coppices of the world, the artist maintains the fact that forest music is synth music; out from a chromatic four-piece set of introductory songs, 'Blue', 'True' and 'White' included, we move with Nakamura into a serene, happily directionless wooded wandering, reaching the minimalistic aerations of 'Lake' and the earthen excavations and lyses of 'Soil'. By the end of the record, we find ourselves indebted, in 'Silence', to an artist whose tonal sensitivities and peacefully restless, steadfast ambient compositions compel us to rewild the proverbial nature reserve.