Eri Sugai - Mai
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Artist: Eri SugaiEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Music Label: Pacific Moon [Alleg]
Soundtracks:
- Horizon
- Honen Bushi
- Konjaku Monogatari
- Aqua
- Lullaby of Takeda
- First Love
- Mai
- Rakuen
- Song of Birth
- China Rose
Music reviews of Mai
Music Review: Very Beautiful
Rating: 4 Stars
What a nice CD...I can see where the comparisons come from. But she is an artist in and of her self. I would rather say her style is "eclectic" versus "sounds like" so and so. She deserves that respect.
Description of Mai
Eri Sugai creates a unique and mysterious world, weaving together layers of rich vocal harmonies with traditional Asian instruments. The solo, multi-plex recording of the choruses creates a hauntingly beautiful sound of exceptional depth and texture.To enhance your enjoyment of the music, incense sticks are included in the spine of the CD jewel case.
Eri Sugai is the latest entry in the heavenly choir that includes Enya and Miriam Stockley of Adiemus. Like those artists, she multitracks her voice into angelic choruses, soaring over spare but emotional arrangements. Sugai, who is Japanese, applies her native traditions for a music that has that an Asian sense of detail, drawing her lines like fine calligraphy. Sugai also joins Lisa Gerrard, Miriam Stockley, and Azam Ali of Vas in creating her own language. Most of Mai, which means "dance," is sung in a fanciful string of ecstatic nonsense phonemes. But when Sugai uses them in her tribal stomps and gentle lullabies they sound like poetry. On "Honen Bushi" Sugai steps into the background, creating a vocal cloud around the lead voice of Anna Sugar, who sings a traditional song with a tribal beat and chanting chorus, while "Konjaku Monogatari," the only song in Japanese, is like a child's song turned into an expansive meditation. It's startling, at times, how close Sugai sounds to Adiemus, especially on "Aqua," a song that started out as a commercial. Sugai gets that same, keening sound of a Polynesian choir attained by Adiemus's Stockley and Karl Jenkins, but she eshews the pomp and classical pretensions of Adiemus, while also creating a more carefully detailed sound than Enya, with whom she's sure to be compared. --John Diliberto
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