{"product_id":"michio-kurihara-sunset-notes-2","title":"Michio Kurihara – Sunset Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Pedal Records – PDL-1801\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Japan\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 21 Jun 2018\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Rock\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Psychedelic Rock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmouldering solo honours from modest-chap Kurihara Michio, better known for his axe-wielding antics in seminal Japanese subterranean psych sects such as The Stars, White Heaven and Ghost.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSunset Notes feels like Kurihara attempting to explore various shades of his heavily guitar-centric sound.  It seems there are more ways than one to make the thing squeal, but for us the magic happens when feather-weight psych siren Ai Aso joins in, lending a songier feel where everything starts to hover and shimmer with an amber-hued morning light.  The pairing of ‘The Wind’s Twelve Quarters’ and ‘Wind Waltzes’ are total heartbreakers and remind us what it is that we (and probably most others) find so appealing in the cavernous world of 90-00s Japanese indie - the intimate, gently swaying, endearing qualities of music so effortlessly arranged.  Elsewhere Kurihara waves his guitar around like an elegiac cattle prod - ‘The Old Man And The Evening Star’ is a slow-burning sinkhole of hallucinogenic phaser-shifting that recalls Kansai greats Yuzo Iwata \/ Naoki Zushi and the front-porch fuzz of Org Records whilst ‘Pendulum On A G-String - The Last Cicado’ unleashes a searing frippertronics-esque squeal that eventually degrades into a gentle nighttime lullaby.  Not gonna lie, there are some tracks on here we’d happily skip, but when it’s good.. it’s GOOD.  (NM)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA1        Time To Go 2:05\u003cbr\u003eA2        Do Deep-Sea Fish Dream Of Electric Moles? 5:33\u003cbr\u003eA3        Wind Waltzes 3:31\u003cbr\u003eA4        Pendulum On A G-String ~ The Last Cicada 6:59\u003cbr\u003eA5        Canon In \"C\" (C Is For Cicada) 1:45\u003cbr\u003eB1        Twilight Mystery Of A Russian Cowboy 3:24\u003cbr\u003eB2        The Wind's Twelve Quarters 5:14\u003cbr\u003eB3        The Old Man And The Evening Star 7:45\u003cbr\u003eB4        A Boat Of Courage 6:01\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"387\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LmnPKIIFGwk\" title=\"Michio Kurihara - The Wind's Twelve Quarters\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003ciframe width=\"387\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LIitKbtKp-Y\" title=\"Michio Kurihara- the old man and the evening star\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57638473793918,"sku":"PDL-1801","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/IMG_4063_ef7f3e83-24ec-457a-b4ad-279374e86377.jpg?v=1756289330","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/michio-kurihara-sunset-notes-2","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}