{"id":421,"date":"2007-01-31T12:40:05","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T11:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=421"},"modified":"2007-01-31T17:26:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T16:26:20","slug":"radicalfashion-odori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=421","title":{"rendered":"radicalfashion &#8211; odori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">had enough of the pounding beats of electro ?  <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">worn down by hip hop mashups, bored by 80s pop  revival, and battered to death by amped up guitars.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">then this calm 30 minute combination of  technology and piano loops could indeed bring you right back to all that is good  about music. <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>radicalfashion <\/STRONG>is  the name for <EM>hirohito ihara <\/EM>and this debut album is coming out via the  rather fine <EM>hefty records <\/EM>label. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">quite simply, the core focus of the album is the  piano, and so, <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">with the drifting arpeggios and  sunrise melodies that follow the opening real world ambience of  <EM>opening,<\/EM>&nbsp;you could be easily mistaken to believe that the album is  a mispressing, and you&#8217;d stumbled upon a bastardised pirate rip of an old richard  clayderman album. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">thankfully, this is not the case. as the album  progresses,&nbsp;sonic twists and turns develop subtly making you glad you  didn&#8217;t hit the eject button.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">modern styled machine loops, vocals cutups and all  manner of delicate head turning production comes into play giving one reason to  recall the more serene moments of <STRONG>aphex twin. <\/STRONG>two of the  highlights feature <EM>carl stone, <\/EM>whoever he is, work really well despite  being somewhat at odds with the rest of the album, the fractured clicks and  cutup flute sample throughout <EM>thousand <\/EM>and gently unsettling distortion  in <EM>usunibi<\/EM> stretch the established template.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">another favourite is <EM>shunpoudoh <\/EM>with its  cutup vocal samples making it come across as a delightful mix of <STRONG>art of  noise<\/STRONG> and <STRONG>jean michel jarre&#8217;s<\/STRONG> <EM>zoolook<\/EM><STRONG>  <\/STRONG>project in which jarre built whole tracks around midi&#8217;d up vocal  samples, radicalfashion revisits this idea and mellows the results with the  childlike playful piano melodies.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">enough of the words, in sumamry, it&#8217;s a lovely  special little album for those that want a marriage of piano melodies and  so-called laptop crunchiness. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">simple as.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">here&#8217;s an example : <EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.heftyrecords.com\/Shousetsu.mp3\">shunpoudoh<\/A>  <\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.heftyrecords.com\/promo\/radicalfashion\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>had enough of the pounding beats of electro ? worn down by hip hop mashups, bored by 80s pop revival, and battered to death by amped up guitars. then this calm 30 minute combination of technology and piano loops could indeed bring you right back to all that is good about music. radicalfashion is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","category-mp3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}