Compositional jack-of-all-trades Yasuaki Shimizu has a remarkable sense of how to strip drollness of all its negative connotations. His work with the band Mariah is proof of this, but even more so is this previously unreleased (!) stroke of luck from 1984. Shimizu’s saxophone meanders and creaks, rousing repetitions suddenly fade out, a few squeaky synth splash, something frog-like, then on into the EBM-like crashing »Shiasate«. »Kiren« is as self-evident and incomprehensible as its own organism.
Yasuaki Shimizu – Kiren (2022)
