A magical, transportive, gorgeously meditational evocative release by the Japanese singer and multi-instrumentalist with a celestial musical landscape LP inspired by the Ryukyu islands that stretch southwest of Japan towards Taiwan. Featuring her primary instrument guitar, as well as piano, harp, flutes, and bells and a string quartet, as well as her distinctive, pure, soothing voice that is both featherlight but also like a wind chime, this ninth studio album (alongside live and other releases) is broadly ambient, acoustic folk with depth and multiple textures. The whole album is best as a late-night or walk in the woods with headphones listen. Highlights include Flag, sweeping, jingling, rippling, cinematic opener Coloratura, and Luciférine, but even without lyrical comprehension, the entire album is an uplifting, restorative audio bathing experience of profundity and beauty. Picture for example, on second track, 24° 3′ 27.0″ N, 123° 47′ 7.5″ E, how those co-ordinates take us to Hateruma island Lighthouse, located in the southernmost of part of Japan. Exquisite. Out on Hermine Records.
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