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s/t Yougey/Tiger Sound YW-RK001 CD £14.99 Japanese folk spirit Kan Mikami has a guitar style that’s as personal and radical as anything from the hand’s of Derek Bailey and this new Japan-only duo album with jazz drummer Ryojiro Furusawa (who he previously cut a vinyl-only album with in the 1980s) works as a beautiful showcase for his idiosyncratic guitar/vocal stylings as well as being one of the punk-toughest of his recent outings. Furusawa wields a whole bunch of penetrating percussive strategies, whether setting silvery bombs of cymbal tone beneath Mikami’s stumpy barre chords or hunching caveman style over flashes of single notes that Mikami flicks from the bridge like he’s striking a match. The duo are completely absorbed in each other for the running time of this excellent disc, another reminder of the scale of Mikami’s personal acid/folk vision. Recommended. |
