UCHINARU KOE NI KAIKI SEYO

The first song is a high octane instrumental, classic Kenso, never falling into endless jamming, effective intro.

The second contains lovely vocals and sold me on the rest of the album irregardless of quality. The songs after however, are no duds. On this track you get top notch Kenso harkening back to the fantastic debut without disregarding their recent work. Emotional guitar, soulful singing, versatile as ever keyboards and great form

3 is a beautiful piano/guitar song showing the band/albums range, a wonderful addition.

4 a peculiar track my words are unable to convey.

5 is a great song with many sections that seamlessly flow into one another while each remaining fantastic.

6 has some lovely hammond mixed with piano bits, lead guitar and some kind of muddy synth.

7 is an ambient prelude to 8.

8 is another track with vocals, this time unfortunately in English rather then Japanese. This song is a mixed bag some of the vocals veer into the territory of bands like Mr. Sirius/Koenji Hyakkei, which I dislike in pure, however, here it is used in an acceptable manner as a good closing track. Other times the vocals are spot on, melding with the music to drive the song through excellent passages. This song contains both some of the albums lowest points and highest.

I think this album would be better with a redone track 8 (Japanese vocals, vocals mixed quieter and the operatic aahhs being reined in (not rexcised from the composition just reducing the note duration) and either track 4 or 1 being removed (not deleted, just used elsewhere)

Overall this is a good album with a variety of songs you just don't usually get in this style of music which work together to create a diverse, very Japanese, very pretty album with lots of memorable moments and nothing to make the album bad. Good album, fans of Canterbury Scene/Jazz Fusion/Zeuhl, even RIO/Avant should definitely check this album out.

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