A singular sound, most recently enjoyed on Animala Corolla by Jüppala Kääpiö, basically the same song under a different mantle. Both sound like the first sounds ever made by the planet and the last ones that will ever be heard. On High Tide Mirror, Hitoshi Kojo again seems to hold sway over an extraordinary beastiary, chanting and leading ragas for and seemingly by the elephants and bandicoots, blue whales and giraffes and all that creepeth upon the earth and all the birds in the sky. A ceaseless tune-up of the orchestra that is this nebulous, dim puff of stardust in The Milky Way, a de-harmonizing of the spheres, many colored drones wheezed through bagpipe bellows, bleating through bladders, trumpeted through horns and rung like bells. “Lunar Germination” is more delicately plucked and stroked, silky strands stuck to the feet of hatchlings taking first flight. The title track is a woozy tide pool reflecting the swirl that makes the cosmic pearl. Gorgeously handmade, silk screened packaging, as per usual for Kojo.
High Tide Mirror is available on Shining Day/Omnimomento.
