Hakobune has one of those cute 3" CDs (called Isohel) out this week on the excellent Hibernate label though I've just been slightly distracted by the sales notes for Irish Party Anthems mixed by Micky Modelle. The cover is an amazing piece of graphic design... who'd have thought of using a 4 leaf clover,. I just don't know.... I digress, Hakobune has had a few bits out on labels like Symbolic Interaction, Install, U Cover etc. so there's some decent heritage there! This is a dinky 3" job limited to just 100 copies and it comes in a cute foldy nipple pack all sealed up in a printed white envelope. There has been some care taken in this release! Musically it's immense walls of drone created by guitars which will batter you senseless and leave you feeling slightly woozy afterwards. Very woozy in fact... this is massive.... It's like being covered by undulating dolphins while they lick your ears into submission. Very good indeed!!
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What their label says...
Hakobune aka Takahiro Yorifuji uses layers of guitar to create sonic landscapes. Takahiro is from a small town in Hyogo, Japan and currently resides in Kyoto. He is well known for his releases on u-cover (sense of place, wondering towards what was unsaid), Waterscape (melting reminiscence), Symbolic Interaction (We left the window open sometimes), Install (Split with David Tagg) and Tobira (Split with Richard Lainhart)
