New release on Sachiko’s (Kousokuya/Overhang Party et al) label from this female psychedelic Japanese underground accordionist. Gabriel has previously collaborated with Keiji Haino and he appeared on three tracks on her 2001 Utsuho album for Tzadik. Her style is somewhere between Palestine/Riley-styled overtone heavy repeat-o minimalism, authentic gipsy/folk styles and melancholy Japanese psychedelia. Itsukushimi combines rolling folk laments with investigations of the furthest reaches of the instrument, working high puffs of tone into long-seconds of silence ala Masayohsi Urabe one minute, huffing like Dolly Collins the next: “She crosses the border between pop field and avant-garde flexibly. Her silent improvised sound is beautiful and nostalgic like folklore, in her exotica with tenderness, are hidden fortitude and energy.” – MA.