When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima

[Despair]

Anyone like this ???

Ive only listened a couple of times, and cant say i love it or hate it.
Superfluous is prolly the best i can describe it.
Any thoughts ??

[VaporTrail]

There are some here:

http://japansylvian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=762

and here:

http://japansylvian.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=421

[Despair]

Thank you VaporTrail.
Very enlightening.
So much so, i sit here typing, with my ipod on,listening to the piece again. Alas im not in Naoshima, but my bedroom here in Manchester

[camphorvan]

Is that why you name's 'Despair'?!!

[Despair]

Ooh Cheeky !!

Actually considering the loud weather buffering most of the country (UK) today, Manchester has been positively sunny.

[camphorvan]

heh heh...sorry couldn't resist. yeah weather has certainly been buffeting. Mostly me, it feels like....Is Naoshima worth getting do you think? I have every other major Sylvian release.

[Despair]

Is it worth getting ???
Of course it is. It still hasnt grabbed me, but then PLIGHT & PREMONITION took 4 or 5 years to become one of my favourite pieces...ever.

[Sylvie]

Worth getting? Probably. More importantly; should one go to Naoshima? Yes, anyone with a heart should go. More on this later, I am a bit jetlagged.

[Adrian]

I like it - but then I have loads of cd's of similar music. This is also why I am curious about DS's new album - release it already!!!

[Chrissy]

I really love it!!!! For some reason it makes me feel like I am sailing the 7 seas in a huge wooden boat and someone pushes an old wooden trunk around ... Everyone who has listened to it yet might know what I mean It really takes you on a beautiful sound trip!

[camphorvan]

I finally got around to getting Naoshima. CD Wow are pretty darn good and reasonable too.

Perhaps it's the intention, but I don't quite know what to make of it. Listened to it once all the way through and it was enjoyable - kinda washes over you, but there are disruptive elements too I thought. By the 50 minutes mark I was hmmm...it needs to be over now, but that's probably because I was listening in the wrong context. It's music to look at things to after all and I was listening to it as I would any new album. So, I think it's maybe one of those environmental things; have it on whilst your engaged in doing something. It'd be good music to listen to while painting, designing websites or editing photos I think. Definitely not one for the car for me!

C

[untitled]

Interesting that you see it as music to be doing something to. I like to listen to it in exactly the opposite way! I find it helps me empty my mind, particularly if I'm a bit stressed. Because there is little or no pattern to what happens, I find my mind listens more closely to it – whereas with a clear melody my brain can happily listen to it, at the same time as fretting about six other things. I find Blemish works in a similar way for me.

I have to say I like WLWBN much more than I expected to. I like that it carries snatches of other artists work along with it – a bit like the pieces of modern art transported to the otherwise traditional little island

[E.T.]

I'd like to listen to it while doing gardening or farm labor. or while I walk in a Shinto shrine.

[Tin Bird]

Not my fave Sylvian ambient/experimental stuff...never seems to settle. I love Plight and Premonition and the B-side to Gone to Earth. I also quite like Camphor, but this piece is only fair. Just doesn't seem to engage me enough to give it the 50+ minutes of time listening to a sound environment. Bill Nelson released a piece called Crimsworth a few years back that was a bit like this, but much better.