Description:	Digipak CD on Someone Good
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Someone Good
	Price:	£9.09
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...according to our Brian on 26 November 2009.

Pianos. What is it at the moment with bloody pianos? Anybody would think they were the cornerstone of popular music. Who do pianos think they are? I'll Rachmaninov you ya little Satie! Grrrr! I'd like to know what makes Max Richter so cool but not Richard Clayderman or Barry Manilow. And David Gray. He plays a piano doesn't he? And he can wobble his head around like a demented thing in time to his ivory terrorizing too. Can Yann Tiersen do that? Bet not, the big soundtracky twat. Akira Kosemura is a fine Japanese piano tinkler who does a similar melancholy thing to those others, like Broderick & Nils Frahm too, very fragile, wispy & loaded with quiet regret, this is the sound of somber Japan. And it's called 'Polaroid Piano' so you can have your feelings evoked twice over. In a charming digipak through Someone Good.

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Sound clips for Polaroid Piano by Akira Kosemura: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Someone Good, RMSG007, £9.09.

What their label says...

Throughout the later half of the 20th century, Edwin Land's Polaroid film came to dominate photo albums - offering the chance to 'capture the moment' and relive it seconds later, Land's product revolutionised the way people documented the world around them. Yet Polaroid cameras did more than simply recount past moments - the medium itself inserted a soft-focus, dream-like quality that appeared to suggest vague recollection over exacting reality.
Following in this tradition, Akira Kosemura's latest pop miniature for Someone Good, Polaroid Piano, shares this hazy filmic impression. It's a snapshot of his increasingly personal and evocative piano and electronics pieces, tinted with field recordings (recorded in various locations including recordings from Brisbane and Hobart by Lawrence English) and offered as a series of small but gloriously rich auditory phrases. Played notes and the mechanism of the piano itself share equal presence in the compositions - Kosemura's physicality evident throughout the album.
Polaroid Piano, like the film from which its name is drawn, captures a moment but does so with a shimmer of the unreal and the imagined.