Sung in Japanese and English 'Car and Freezer' followed Ishibashi's ace "Imitation of Life" in 2014 using the same basic formula, with Jim O'Rourke handling co-production duties. Hugely enjoyable stuff that treads carefully between jazzy improv and progressive pop.
Multi-instrumentalist, electronics whizz and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi called her second Western-friendly prog opus "Car and Freezer" as a reference to her hometown, where "cars and refrigerators were often abandoned and just left lying around." To spark a sense of difference in the sessions, Ishibashi added obstacles to her process: whereas on her previous album she went to rehearsals with demo songs already mapped out, here she arrived with nothing. A few days of blank stares turned into a communal experience, where each musician - Toshiaki Sudo, Hatano Atsuko, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa and O’Rourke - brought forward their own skillset.
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Sung in Japanese and English 'Car and Freezer' followed Ishibashi's ace "Imitation of Life" in 2014 using the same basic formula, with Jim O'Rourke handling co-production duties. Hugely enjoyable stuff that treads carefully between jazzy improv and progressive pop.
Multi-instrumentalist, electronics whizz and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi called her second Western-friendly prog opus "Car and Freezer" as a reference to her hometown, where "cars and refrigerators were often abandoned and just left lying around." To spark a sense of difference in the sessions, Ishibashi added obstacles to her process: whereas on her previous album she went to rehearsals with demo songs already mapped out, here she arrived with nothing. A few days of blank stares turned into a communal experience, where each musician - Toshiaki Sudo, Hatano Atsuko, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa and O’Rourke - brought forward their own skillset.
Sung in Japanese and English 'Car and Freezer' followed Ishibashi's ace "Imitation of Life" in 2014 using the same basic formula, with Jim O'Rourke handling co-production duties. Hugely enjoyable stuff that treads carefully between jazzy improv and progressive pop.
Multi-instrumentalist, electronics whizz and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi called her second Western-friendly prog opus "Car and Freezer" as a reference to her hometown, where "cars and refrigerators were often abandoned and just left lying around." To spark a sense of difference in the sessions, Ishibashi added obstacles to her process: whereas on her previous album she went to rehearsals with demo songs already mapped out, here she arrived with nothing. A few days of blank stares turned into a communal experience, where each musician - Toshiaki Sudo, Hatano Atsuko, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa and O’Rourke - brought forward their own skillset.
Sung in Japanese and English 'Car and Freezer' followed Ishibashi's ace "Imitation of Life" in 2014 using the same basic formula, with Jim O'Rourke handling co-production duties. Hugely enjoyable stuff that treads carefully between jazzy improv and progressive pop.
Multi-instrumentalist, electronics whizz and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi called her second Western-friendly prog opus "Car and Freezer" as a reference to her hometown, where "cars and refrigerators were often abandoned and just left lying around." To spark a sense of difference in the sessions, Ishibashi added obstacles to her process: whereas on her previous album she went to rehearsals with demo songs already mapped out, here she arrived with nothing. A few days of blank stares turned into a communal experience, where each musician - Toshiaki Sudo, Hatano Atsuko, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa and O’Rourke - brought forward their own skillset.
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Sung in Japanese and English 'Car and Freezer' followed Ishibashi's ace "Imitation of Life" in 2014 using the same basic formula, with Jim O'Rourke handling co-production duties. Hugely enjoyable stuff that treads carefully between jazzy improv and progressive pop.
Multi-instrumentalist, electronics whizz and singer-songwriter Eiko Ishibashi called her second Western-friendly prog opus "Car and Freezer" as a reference to her hometown, where "cars and refrigerators were often abandoned and just left lying around." To spark a sense of difference in the sessions, Ishibashi added obstacles to her process: whereas on her previous album she went to rehearsals with demo songs already mapped out, here she arrived with nothing. A few days of blank stares turned into a communal experience, where each musician - Toshiaki Sudo, Hatano Atsuko, Yamamoto Tatsuhisa and O’Rourke - brought forward their own skillset.