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Song: Untitled
From album: Eksperimentoj
Genre: Igneous Rock
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こんなロックが聞きたかったんだ。－青木ロビン
Rock like this is what I’ve wanted to hear. - Aoki Robin
(downy, Dhal)
I couldn’t agree more. Eksperimentoj is quality music. Probably not since downy, has a band come out of Japan that I have appreciated as much so soon. I definitely recommend you check them out on myspace, and see their video for “note” via Ian’s blog.
The thematic tendons that run along the length of the album make picking it apart and isolating a favorite section very difficult. It’s like a complicated personality, having many surfaces of varying character, all of which hint at a larger, more monolithic something hidden beneath them.
When I first wrote about Eksperimentoj, the song “solaris” reminded me of a midnight storm in an ocean wilderness; but this album as a whole has a distinctly different ambience, and it’s rather hard to pin down. Even the mix of solaris here is not as huge and looming. It’s clearer, and much more personal.
The more I think about it, the more it seems like a person, whose thoughts form as music while he glides through the world. He sees with little color, but in great depth and richness, extracting meaning from every contour. Behind him, the shapes and shadows buckle and stretch, as the path of his thoughts unconsciously reforms the landscape in a spreading wave.
Life is but a dream.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:35 pm
The singer, Eugene Wakamikoto has great English pronunciation, and the lyrics are included in English and Japanese.
untitled
and I miss but you don’t know, foregone
tried to show but you don’t care, oh no
I have nothing you wouldn’t know, oh no
the end of games but you don’t stop, oh no
and dark wind blows
I know tears but you don’t know, oh no
cried instead of being low, oh god
stars invite where you belong, ever in your thoughts
empty years but you don’t stop, oh no
and dark wind blows
all that’s clear
I know it’s somewhere
and I stay alive
I wouldn’t know
when you will grow
I wouldn’t know
when you will glow
I have no one
I have no one
but you have it all
and I know
のがしたが、あなたは知らない、過ぎ去った
見せようとしたが、あなたは気にしない
何も持っていない、あなたは知る由がない
ゲームの終わり、だがあなたは止まらない
そして暗い風が吹く
涙を知っている、あなたは知らない
落ちるかわりに泣いてみる
星があなたへと導く、あなたの空想
空の時間、だがあなたはとまらない
そして暗い風が吹く
すべては明らか
知っているどこかにあるのを
そしてわたしは生きる
知る由がない
あなたが生長するのを
知る由がない
あなたが光るのを
誰もいない
誰もいない
あなたはすべてを持っている
しっているよ
March 7th, 2007 at 12:53 am
The album is pretty awesome. I was less impressed than I thought I would be at first, but it’s really grown on me. I’m surprised they rerecorded Solaris–I actually like the previous version more. Still, the album is really amazing.
March 7th, 2007 at 9:48 am
i’m liking it a lot. it has a nice, fluid sound that i keep coming back to listen to.
March 7th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Benn: I agree, you sort of have to spend some time getting to know the album to appreciate it. I like the previous solaris a little better too, just for the big ominous atmosphere; but it would definitely sound out of place in this album.
Dys: True that.
March 8th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
It’s likely that they rerecorded solaris for the album because the production values on the compilation’s version would have stood out too much.
The compilation version sounds much more polished. Perhaps they had more funding to record in a professional studio when they were doing the compilation- the cd being backed by Felicity and all. I don’t know how the money works in these situations though, so I’m only guessing.
Their debut album on the other hand was released on an indies label and was recorded and produced in the band’s basement studio.
Also, I remember Eugene posting comments about how they wanted the eksperimentoj album to be more straight out “rock sounding” as opposed to the more atmospheric sound in the first version of solaris.
March 8th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Yeah the straighter rock feel kind of threw me when I first listened to it, as I was expecting a darker, “downy-er” atmosphere; but it all fits together really well somehow, albeit in a completely different way than I thought it would.
It took me a while to appreciate it, but the production of this album does have a lot of great subtleties, they just aren’t in your face. At certain times in different songs you will catch just a hint of another harmonizing vocal layer, slipping in and out just as it’s needed. There are a lot of these tiny little layers hidden in the corners that made it very interesting to me when I started to recognize them.
March 9th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Hearing the opening track of the album, I thought the album would match the previous Solaris. I think that’s why I was so thrown off and it took me a while to get into it. But, yeah, it’s really good.
March 12th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
If anything, this album definitely speaks of great things to come. I enjoy the album a lot but while listening, I get a sense of unfulfilled potential. One thing is for sure, Eugene has an amazing voice.
March 15th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Yeah, I think if they stick together we can expect a lot from them as they mature as a band.