Eri Sugai - Kaori
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Artist: Eri SugaiEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Music Label: Pacific Moon [Alleg]
Soundtracks:
- Voyage To Asia
- Iroha Song
- Breath Of Earth
- Teinsagu Nu Hana
- Silence
- Etenraku
- Eternal Prayer
- Ancient City
- Kunino Sazuchi
- Fragrance
- Voyage To Asia/A Cappella Version
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Music Review: I love this so much, I have to have 2 copies.
Rating: 5 Stars
Why, you may ask? It's simple, one gets played at home, the other travels with me, in the diskman or in the car - just like Eri's previous album MAI. If I go anywhere, ERI's music goes too.
I bought KAORI last year when it first came out in Japan. It cost me much more than the second copy I bought, but it was worth it. Now, at last, KAORI (it means Frangrance) is available to the masses and is a very special album.
People think that Eri Sugai is the Japanese Enya and there are some similarities between the two ladies. However, don't be misled by that comparison. There are reminders of Enya (and Adiemus, too), but whilst Enya's music has that wonderful western feel to it, ERI's has an oriental taste to it which you've probably never heard before.
On this album, she is vibrant, particularly in the first 3 tracks, before slowing to a more sombre, thoughhtful mood. I particularly like the 4th track, "Teinsagu Nu Hana", which is an Okinawan Folk Song! It's a song my Japanese wife knows well and when she says she loves ERIs version, I take note! It is just a sensational track and a celebration in how to layer the voice over and over again (it's like you're hearing a choir). However, all eleven tracks are beautiful and they add up to a perfect album, where the voice is the most effective instrument and shines through with beauty and grace. The sheer brilliance of this album is in the diversity of the music - anthemic, hymn-like, soothing, invigorating and joyous, whilst being full of inventiveness and sophistication - and a stunning follow-up to MAI.
To agree with what another reviewer has suggested, there's nothing like this elsewhere in the world.
Everyone should have a copy of this album. Remember the name - ERI SUGAI. She should be a superstar! It's not too late to make her one. In my book, she already is.
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Description of Kaori
From the majestic voyage in the opening track to ancient "story songs" and the transcendent sounds of the gamelan and didgeridoo, Eri Sugai weaves aesthetic sounds of harmony. As instruments from various nations celebrate sound, Sugai's voice throbs and dances, running between the waves to weave a taperstry of its own. An unlimited expression of the human voice, 'Kaori' is a gift delivered from the heavenly skies.Eri Sugai has been called the Japanese Enya, but in the intervening five years since her last CD, Mai, Sugai has clearly been listening to a lot of Adiemus and Miriam Stockley as well. In fact, "Voyage to Asia" sounds more like a voyage to Adiemus, with its stacked choirs and glossolia incantations. But deeper listening to Kaori reveals, once again, a singer of frighteningly wide vocal and stylistic range. Tracks like "Iroha" swoon in celestial choirs while koto glissandos and shakuhachi melodies ripple through the deep choirs. Her tribal take on "Breath of Life" again recalls Adiemus, but there's no denying the distinctly Asian tone of her singing or accompaniment. Produced by Kazumu Yoshioka, the label president and one of the guiding forces behind the studio project Uttara-Kuru, Kaori is a deft mix of tradition and technology. Several artists from the Pacific Moon roster provide her backing, including erhu player Jia Peng Fang and koto player Mizuyo Komiya. The hyper-layered production can detract from the purity of Sugai's voice and melodies, and Kaori has enough moments of sickly sweet expanse that can be hard to down in one sitting. But when Sugai sings a multitracked, a capella song like "Silence," or a spare chant on "Etenraku," she sounds descended from the heavens. --John Diliberto
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