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. 

New release for Jani Hirvonen’s one-man Finnish cosmonaut orchestra, a Japan-only release on Sachiko Fukuoka’s (Kousokuya/Overhang Party/Vava Katora) own label. This is one of Uton’s more enigmatic releases, with the sound of nowhere channelled via automating electronics and hovering planetary-scale drones over endless whispering forests of microtonal choirs. Comes in oversize hard card sleeves: “Uton’s music is a mix of many genres, including elements from drone, avant-noise, free-improv, psychedelia, ambient, tape-music, musique concrete etc. Sometimes wondering in the silent dark semi-acoustic mysteries, and in the next day creating noisy wall of sound with outer space echoes and alien atmospheres. Uton's sound is made from many sources; like electric guitar, electronics, voice, different type of percussions (small drums, maracasses), bells, violin, flutes, keyboards... and nowadays also some digital manipulation too. All kind of instruments are welcome to join in, but the result is always coming from the same filter (which we call now with name "Uton")
From The Twilight, Next to Nowhere and Disappeared album was recorded already around 2004-2005 in Tampere, Finland. Recorded with four-track tape recorder, and later edited and mastered digitally on computer. Musically this album shows the most mysterious and atmospheric side of Uton. He has collaborated with Alan Courtis (Reynols), Antony Milton (Mrtyu, Black Boned Angel), Ben Reynolds, Peter Wright, Jari Koho (Vapaa), Maxime Primault (Enfer Boreal, High Wolf) and Jan Anderzen (Tomutonttu, Kemialliset Ystavat) among others.” – MA.