MP3: Rainstick Orchestra
So new I couldn't even find cover art (hence the picture of the random guy with a rainstick). November will see the Ninja Tune release of the first record from Rainstick Orchestra, The Floating Glass Key in the Sky. Occupying a few front-row seats in the Steve Reich/John Cage School of Minimalist Composition, the pair -- Baku Tsunoda and Naomichi Tanaka -- deliver seven meditative, looping instrumentals that sound the way a Haruki Murakami novel reads. This is polished electronic psychedelia for the day after -- happy, contemplative "systems music" incorporating guitars, piano, bass and sequencers. "Electric Counterpoint Fast" sits comfortably in the ether generated by a Steve Reich and Plaid chemical reaction, while "Waltz for a Little Bird" could easily be a plaintive, jazzy Sea & Cake track sans the breezy vocals of Sam Prekop (damn that would be a good combo). This will be available in November from Ninja Tune.
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