Description:	Digipak CD on Someone Good
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Electronica / IDM
	Label:	Someone Good
	Price:	£8.19
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

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...according to our Brian on 13 November 2009.

Another Japanese composer is Aus who we always do really well with. This is probably down to him being hugely adept at creating warm, brittle ambient flecked music with absorbing glitch & minimal post-rock shades. 'Light In August, Later' features the shimmer of soft drones, melancholy piano plinking, somnolent passages of drift & hushed static, the gentle crunching & crackling of organic sounding laptop glitch & some charming meandering acoustic guitar topped with mellow vocals which results in a swaying take on classic melodic "indietronica" moods (gah, thought we'd killed that phrase!!). There's many familiar themes on this downtempo album, the merging of gentle organic & synthetic musics to create a very pleasant sound world. Digipak CD innit.

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Sound clips for Light In August, Later by Aus: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Someone Good, RMSG008, £8.19.

What their label says...

Light In August, Later is the latest work from Tokyo based musician and composer aus (Yasuhiko Fukuzono). It's a measured and paced collection of pieces that evoke warm visions of open plains, sun causing mirages to gather on the ground. In this vision the detail of the environment close at hand somehow becomes united with the epic horizon laid out beyond it. It is in fact this relationship between focused detail and sweeping texture that is at the very heart of this edition.
Matching cycled melodic passages with tiny electronic clicks and tones, aus generates a music that borrows the harmonic intent of pop but reduces it to a fine grain. Melodies blossom, are swept up in a gauze of processing and become transformed into something exquisitely intimate and engaging.
Collaborating with Viennese musician Glim on two pieces, and joined by artists such as Cokiyu on others, this is a record that speaks to aus's abilities not only as a composer, but also a sound crafter of the highest order. An essential and compelling deconstruction of electronic infused pop by one of Japan's most impressive young artists.