Miho Hatori - Ecdysis
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Music CD Cover Artist: Miho Hatori Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 2006-10-24 Music Label: Rykodisc Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Ecdysis Album
Free Music Review: At Long Last: Miho's Masterpiece!!!
Hit: 5 Stars
For longtime fans of Cibo Matto, Miho Hatori's first solo album (not counting her lovely LP's worth of South American-influenced duets and covers with Smokey Hormel) is, finally, more than worth the wait. Her old Cibo Matto bandmate Yuka Honda, most famous for standing behind the keyboards and handling backup vocals, has already released two solo albums of her own on the Tzadzik label, and while both (particularly `Memories Are My Only Witness') are quite accomplished, they still feel like incomplete sketches of fully realized albums. And yet, the musical inventiveness and pop brilliance of Cibo Matto was occasionally on view, enough to make one wonder if it was really Honda who was pulling the strings in the band, and Hatori who was only adding her famous, gorgeous, childlike yet womanly lead vocals to the proceedings.
Ecdysis puts all those skewed assumptions to rest. It is, in fact, the very best project that either Hatori or Honda have been involved in since Cibo Matto's much-heralded first album, Viva! La Woman - it happily stands alongside that album as being a perfectly realized piece of dreamy electronic-ambient pop confections. And unlike Honda's last two releases, there isn't a single trivial or redundant track on Ecdysis - it all coheres together to form a marvelous musical expression of beauty, warmth, and of course eccentric (and thoroughly charming) originality. With its strong emphasis on ballads, it most clearly resembles Bjork's trip-hop masterpiece `Homogenic.' But Hatori takes her music and makes it definingly her own: `Song For Kids' is sung exclusively in Japanese, and numbers like `Walking City' and `Spirit of Juliet' reside entirely inside Hatori's own lyrical universe, yet are poetic and evocative enough to take you along for the ride. Hatori doesn't forget about the party, though - she gets her & our groove on in preposterously infectious fashion with `Barracuda,' `Song For Kids,' and most notably in `Sweet Samsara Part II,' where she actually seems to coin a new musical genre: Buddhist funk! Her delightful exhortation for us to "flow with me, flow!" might even get the Dalai Lama to hit the dancefloor in platform shoes. But the pure beauty of musical balladry is ultimately Hatori's finest achievement - the completely magical torch songs `In Your Arms' and `River of 3 Crossings' are as delicate and shimmering and transcendent as anything in Bjork's (or for that matter Cibo Matto's) entire repertoire.