2 A Slowly Fainting Memory Of Love And Respect, And Hatred (5:30)
3 The Loneliness Of Anarchic Beauty Archieved By My Ego (3:45)
4 A Heart-Warming And Beautiful Flower Will Eventually Wither Away And Become Dirt (4:43)
5 The Sin Of Almighty God, Respected And Believed By The Masses (4:42)
6 That Persons Hearsay Protects My Free Spirit (4:55)
7 The Things That I Need To Do For Just One's Love (5:06)
8 The Scream Of A Sage Who Lost Freedom And Love Taken For Granted Before (5:02)
9 A Song Produced While Floating Alone On Christmas Day (5:14)
10 The Now Forgotten Gods Of Rocky Mountain Residing In The Back Of The North Wood (4:02)
11 The Sacred Ceremony Concieved By Chance From An Evil Lie (5:01)
12 The Destiny For The Little Bird Trapped Inside A Small Cage For Life (4:39)
Le japonais Susumu Yokota auteur des deux albums majeurs, Magic Tread (1998) et Sakura (1999) sortis sur le prestigieux The Leaf Label, nous propose une nouvelle expérience à travers Love or Die, plongée hypnotique sous des cascades de piano, de polyrythmies ciselées et de mélodies en apesanteur.
Artiste inclassable, Susumu Yokota compose une musique aux confluents du classique et de l’electronica, où rêve et poésie semblent avoir une place prédominante, enrobée d’une touché de mélancolie enfantine, de par l’utilisation d’une instrumentation aux sonorités tout en douceur à rapprocher de comptines issues d’une 5è Dimension onirique.Mélangeant acoustique et électronique comme à son habitude, Love or Die nous raconte des histoires dont les titres sont à eux seuls de véritables mises en abime, introduction à son engagement dans sa quête d’atteindre les cimes de l’ultime. Il y a une certaine forme de mysticisme à travers Love or Die, tiraillement entre les deux extrêmes de l’existence, traduit par son mélange des genres, superposés à la manière de collage stylistiques ayant en relation le même désir de donner à entendre une musique qui cherche avant tout à s’inscrire dans le temps, laissant disque après disque son empreinte sur les années à venir.
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Love Or Die might be categorised as one of Susuma Yakota's ambient albums, but that's perhaps too strict a categorisation for a record so balanced as this. For all the wealth of textured, synthetic atmosphere, you'll still find a backbone of electronic rhythms running through these recordings, starting with the digital waltz 'For The Other Self Who Is Far Away That I Cannot Reach'. At first you might be struck by how artificial all this sounds: the synth piano and strings, bathed in reverb, take some getting used to but as you work your way through the record this sort of language becomes all the more endearing - heck, using these sorts of MIDI-style instruments is something that could practically be termed as vintage nowadays, so it's certainly not without its charms. In compositional terms, tracks like 'That Person's Hearsay Protects My Free Spirit' have a kind of spongy lightness to them and an airy melodic presence, while something like 'A Song Produced While Floating Alone On Christmas Day' has an Orb-like warm 4/4 ambience. Elsewhere you'll hear the sort of programmed beats - and even Aphex-style breakbeats - that recall a classic early nineties electronic language, After the initial shock of just how 'keyboardy' the album is, Love Or Die's beauty and elegance soon becomes apparent, and you'll be happy to file this next to the likes of Grinning Cat and Sakura.
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