Tokyo Garden Suite (Richard Youngs & Andrew Paine) - Tokyo Garden Suite

"Tokyo Garden Suite is one of the most beautiful, stately and oddly melancholic releases in the Sonic Oyster catalogue. As well as Paine and Youngs, the disc sees the return to the fold of Steve Todd, who the No Fans hardcore will immediately recognise as the duo partner Youngs cut the great Georgians CD with for VHF back in 1996. Todd opens the 30 minute piece with a sombre, atmospheric reading of a text which introduces a slow, single note piano motif behind which Paine and Youngs’ spoken vocals create a feeling of a post-apocalyptic Albion, with lyrics that reference the buzz of Geiger counters double by overblown shakuhachi. In many ways Tokyo Garden Suite is an extension – or perhaps more accurately a dilation - of the minimal logic of earlier Youngs pieces like Advent while factoring in the later more Prog-tinged aspects of the best Ilk recordings. Outside of Ultrahits, this has probably been the most played Sonic Oyster disc in the office. Highly recommended." (Volcanic Tongue)

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