Point: from Nakameguro to Everywhere

• Artist : Cornelius
• Binding : Audio CD
• EAN : 0744861033226
• Label : Matador
• Manufacturer : Matador
• Number Of Discs : 1
• Package Dimensions : 0.54 inches (Height) x 5.55 inches (Length) x 0.18 pounds (Weight) x 4.97 inches (Width)
• Product Group : Music
• Publisher : Matador
• Release Date : 2002-02-25
• SKU : 744861033226
• Studio : Matador
• UPC : 744861033226

Point is the long-awaited full-length follow-up to Fantasma, and it does not disappoint. Cornelius--aka Japanese pop auteur and clothing designer Keigo Oyamada--thrilled the world with his debut international release, back in 1997: a breezy blend of electronica that melded the thick, soupy guitar feedback of My Bloody Valentine to the gorgeous harmonies of Beach Boys, and fed it all through a peculiarly kitsch Japanese bubblegum pop filter. On Point, the crystal-clear "Smoke" weaves a tangle of jerky new-wave guitar over clip-clopping electronic beats and the raw clatter of percussion, while the heavenly "Tone Twilight Zone" elegantly demonstrates that even the most ornate, maximal production can be imbued with a sense of almost supernatural calm. Perhaps the album's greatest success is the way that it presents ambient cliché--the gurgle of running water, breaking waves, the chirruping of crickets--as just another form of instrumentation. An enchanting, psychedelic journey into stereophonic sound, the meticulously precise rhythms and harmonies of Point confirm Oyamada's mastery of the studio. No-one on earth is making music quite like this. --Louis Pattison

- Amazon.co.uk Review

Tracks:

• Disc 1

  • 1: Bug
  • 2: Point Of View Point
  • 3: Smoke
  • 4: Drop
  • 5: Another View Point
  • 6: Tone Twilight Zone
  • 7: Bird Watching At Inner Forest
  • 8: I Hate Hate
  • 9: Brazil
  • 10: Fly
  • 11: Nowhere

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