/Folktronica, Conceptual, Experimental
folk, Baroque folk, Cowbell indie, World music, Epic, Chamber folk, Art folk/
Comment:
sort of a folk music within this handful of tracks presented by Hico is
certainly my cup of tea. It is artsy, it is dreamy, it is crafty, it seems to
be concise and bountiful at the same time. Stylistically the issue is a place
for different styles to encounter on the same line and plateau. For instance,
the world music motives start off to permeate from some tracks into modern
electronic rhythms and panoramic orchestrations resulting in cinematic looming
and build-up of full-fledged emotions. The album is partly conceptual due to
deliberately crossing some instruments with one another to reach the goal (for
instance, organ and ensemble, and banjo and upright bass). The result is
coherent and having no scattered seeds within the course. Organ & Ensemble reminds of one of the favourites of mine,
Penguin Café Orchestra with regard to light-hearted harmony blossoming and
cloudless visions in sound. Furthermore, the same could be admitted about the
subsequent piece Fushigi either. Of
course, Hico is able of translating those enterprises into a nowadays sonic
form. In a word, this excellent make-out is obviously one of the best issues I
have heard in the discography of Totokoko Records (it does not mean at all that
other outings of the imprint I have listened so far were somehow inferior or
lame ones on its own).