Aritomo
We Become The Cloud And.../ The Circular Flower

A Norman Records recommendation (31st October 2007)

This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.

A while back some of you may remember us banging on about Aritomo. We had a couple of art edition albums of this Japanese Wunderkin earlier in the year and they sold out in no time. One of yous lot bought 'em off us and liked 'em so much you decided to release a record by 'em. I love it when a plan comes together. The 'We Became The Cloud' 7" on Bracken Records is said record and it's a lovely thing for sure. Wispy ethereal sounding mystical folk to gentle you off. It's great... this is what I want on my cereals in the morning. It just would get your day off to a great start....  With records as great as this there is truly no more need for toast. Cool sleeve as well..... well Japanese.

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What their label says...

'Japanese Folk' is how Aritomo reluctantly describes his music. Certainly, there's a lot of Japan floating around in there and the overall feel is suitably calming and reflective. Aritomo's music HAS to be heard and re-heard to get the true benefit from his unusual but absorbing take on 'folk'.
Aritomo won't win many prizes for his vocal work but I really don't think that's what this is all about - Aritomo makes music for the senses - he creates tapestries of sound, full of texture and aural colour. Ok, his work does tend be a little removed from the 'norm' and it's definitely not commercial in the true sense of the word. What his music does do is it creates visions, generates feelings, conjures up worlds outside our own. It's mind music - it's instrumentally poetic and I see Aritomo's voice as just another instrument to add an extra dynamic to the soundscape. It matters not what Aritomo sounds like and it probably matters even less what his words are saying - it's all just another brick in the wall and that wall is a modern day Bayeux tapestry that doesn't so much hang in your vision as sit somewhere inside your own mind and allows itself to be shaped and moulded by incoming 'sound'. Aritomo provides the stitches for the tapestry and then allows the listener to create his/her own Bayeux. I think the clue is in the title, 'We Become The Cloud And...'!!
'We Become The Cloud And...' and it's 'brother in arms', 'The Circular Flower', by Aritomo is music-art, a step removed from what you'll come across routinely. Aritomo is giving something to you, should you chose to take it, that you can 'run' with, make your own, add meaning and/or detail, take it to wherever you want. Aritomo gives you the fuel and leaves you to provide the wheels to get to wherever you want to go. Different - but that's the point!!! – Toxic Pete, Rhythm & Booze.
 
SOUNDS LIKE? Something played at the wrong speed and underwater, but very much like something you’d like to hear.
IS IT ANY GOOD? I think so, the melodies are moresome.
WHY? It’d annoy the living crap out of Yoko. - UNPEELED

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