Midori Hirano - Invisible Island '2020

Tracks list

Invisible Island is a fitting title for an album that seems to exist in a place
quietly removed from the problems of the world. Its playful and imaginative,
living in a soundscape filled with exotic fruits that fall from invisible trees.
The record feels like a continuance from her album Minor Planet (2016) that
shines through as an ethereal fog.
Although the pieces on the album mostly centre around the piano - played in a
soft, minimal way - its the way they are presented that creates the personality
that defines Invisible Island. The keys are coated in sound experimentations,
perfectly accompanied by layers of synthesizers. Its a dreamy album that seems
to emanate from a fantasy full of warmth, channeling both classic Japanese
ambient music and a more modern electro-acoustic sound. Midori has a special
sense of creating touching, melancholic pieces that float on the borders. As
someone who grew up in the outskirts of Kyoto for then to later move to Berlin,
one can sense the influences of both places - without ever settling down on
either.
Midoris Invisible Island is a safe place. Though its one full of life and
colours : birds, animals, wind and waves, fond memories of lost or unknown
places and people that exist only in the hidden edges of this album. This
especially comes to light for the albums centrepiece, the beautiful Belong,
featuring Christoph Berg on violin. Its as if the protagonist - after roaming
around the island for a long period, lost in its intrigue - finally finds what
he/she has been searching for. A few tracks later the album ends on the title
track, an uplifting ending that seems somehow unreal once the album stops and we
́re back to reality. Though the piano seems to keep performing in ones head
with its repeating chorus and slowly drowning theme. An album of true visible
beauty. 

Tracklist:
01. Midori Hirano - Oceans Disconnect (3:48)
02. Midori Hirano - Strain (2:17)
03. Midori Hirano - Vanished Garden (3:14)
04. Midori Hirano - Coil (4:15)
05. Midori Hirano - November (3:16)
06. Midori Hirano - Remembrance (4:55)
07. Midori Hirano - Corridor (4:45)
08. Midori Hirano - Glass (2:45)
09. Midori Hirano - Belong feat. Christoph Berg (3:28)
10. Midori Hirano - End of the Night (3:06)
11. Midori Hirano - Invisible Island (5:17)

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