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RADICALFASHION - Odori
| StylusMagazine | | Awatery, raining-in-buckets sound bookends Odori, Hiohito Ihara’s debut as radicalfashion. And though the Japanese pianist “links the sea with his ‘liking for some kind of nostalgia’” (according to his label’s website), neither the sea nor nostalgia are readily apparent on the majority of songs that make up this small collection. Then again, Ihara makes the kind of nearly faultless rough-and-smooth ambient music that leaves writers grasping (and gasping) for various overblown natural world descriptors (it’s like snow! or the sky! or water!)—as if this kind of sublime touch must be beyond humankind....full text |
| | PitchFork | | When I woke up early this morning, it was still dark, but I could see that snow had begun to settle on the woods (a rarity in post-global warming North Carolina). My first half-asleep thought was of Radicalfashion's "Suna"-- a perfect complement, with its crystalline piano keys, to a crisp and snowy day. My second thought, irrationally, was that my Radicalfashion deadline had summoned the unexpected snow....full text |
| | CokeMachineGlow | | Radicalfashion a.k.a. Kobe’s Hirohito Ihara uses “Opening” as a brief introduction to the externally catalyzed daydreams that dance at the fringes and tear at the corners of his prodigious piano compositions. The track’s single minute sounds like a gamelan wrangled out of elaborate wind chimes and rain falling on tin, and this same exact gamelan au natural plays underneath (or on top of) “Mask,” the closing etude. Such is the way that Radicalfashion’s debut manages to expand formalism with expressionist swaddling, and it swaddles through its very modern production and very carefully herded noise....full text |
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