Tsuki No Wa – Ninth Elegy (2023 Reissue)

Description

The long-awaited first release on vinyl of the indie masterpiece released by Japanese cross-border music group Tsuki No Wa in 2000. The labyrinth of Japanese independent music keeps twisting and turning. Tsuki no Was Ninth Elegy is a case in point. Its one of those releases that seems to up-end every thing we thought we knew, hiding in plain sight, out-of-time and floating free of taste and influence. Its a hard experience to unpick. Spectral and distant but heartbreakingly overwrought, Fuminosukes voice is a marvel. The voice is all: angry, pleading, wraithlike or resigned. Broadly it exists somewhere in relation to jazz, blues and Latin: saxophone, guitar, upright bass, organ, strings, drums. But it floats at ground level through a haunted apartment, constantly destabilised by odd jump cuts, dubby atmospherics and nods to psychedelic pop or spooked exotica. via All Night Flight

Label:First on Vinyl
Format:Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue
Reissued:2023 / Original Release: 2000
Genre:Jazz, Folk
Style:Contemporary Jazz, Folk

File under: Avant Garde / Free Jazz