With a title translating into English as "Inner Journey", Foodman’s new EP is distinctly different from 2021’s easy going and hyper-rhythmic ‘Yasuragi Land’ album.
Here the atmosphere is almost cartoonish, with calm airy chords underpinninga kind of freely spontaneous approach to composition. On two songs, Foodman sings in what he calls his “old man voice”, imported from his parallel work as an animation voice actor.
‘Pichi Pichi’ opens the EP with the Japanese couplet “I want to eat delicious potatoes, I want to make them crispy and delicious”, before dropping the listener into the frantic ‘Soukos’, sounding like the performance artist Paul Mcarthy directing 'In The Night Garden'.
‘Hosho Michi’ and ‘Harjimari’ moderate the mood a little, with weird repetitive vocals and rhythmic synths pinballing around the speakers. Finally, ‘Fuwari’ closes proceedings in a more structured form, its rolling sounds and reverb create a tumbling hyper-rhythmic song.
Here the atmosphere is almost cartoonish, with calm airy chords underpinninga kind of freely spontaneous approach to composition. On two songs, Foodman sings in what he calls his “old man voice”, imported from his parallel work as an animation voice actor.
‘Pichi Pichi’ opens the EP with the Japanese couplet “I want to eat delicious potatoes, I want to make them crispy and delicious”, before dropping the listener into the frantic ‘Soukos’, sounding like the performance artist Paul Mcarthy directing 'In The Night Garden'.
‘Hosho Michi’ and ‘Harjimari’ moderate the mood a little, with weird repetitive vocals and rhythmic synths pinballing around the speakers. Finally, ‘Fuwari’ closes proceedings in a more structured form, its rolling sounds and reverb create a tumbling hyper-rhythmic song.
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