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WONG + TAKAKO MINEKAWA + GOOD WILLSMITH, DUSTIN - Exit Future Heart

Umor Rex

WONG + TAKAKO MINEKAWA + GOOD WILLSMITH, DUSTIN - Exit Future Heart

"2018 release. Exit Future Heart follows three Good Willsmith albums released on Umor Rex and three albums by Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa on Thrill Jockey. Recorded live at home in Chicago over the course of one night when Wong and Minekawa passed through on tour, Exit Future Heart showcases a program of spontaneous compositions that flow through mutated tropes of rock music, focused ambient/kosmische synthesis, and expanses of raw textural sculpting. The singular performance styles and improvisatory gestures of each member of the quintet fuse into a delicate interplay charged more by open spaces and deep listening than by overload or abandon. Takako Minekawa and Natalie Chami chase each other through the mix with layered angelic vocalizations that flit from operatic highs to close-mic whispers. Minekawa's flute-like Casio tones, prominently featured in her catalog of seminal shibuya-kei pop albums starting in the mid-90s, cut through in moments of colorful melody and hover in clouds of restrained pointillist harmony. As in her solo recordings under the name TALsounds, Chami's signature Juno organ chords and cascading monophonic Moog blips compound through live looping and processing into the undulating bedrock of each session. Dustin Wong's guitar shines in passages of crystalline clean tone picking and rockets into bursts of effect-soaked abstraction, capturing the glowing precision of his solo albums and the optimistic energy of his former noise/rock band, Ponytail. When he's not painting the mix with smeared arpeggios and quivering synth textures, Doug Kaplan (one half of Chicago label Hausu Mountain) locks with Wong into tiered guitar riffs. In step with the frantic, style-mashing electronic arrangements of his solo project Mukqs, Maxwell Allison (the other half of Hausu Mountain) steers a rig of synths and drum machines through shifting IDM-esque bass and drum patterns, steady krautrock-inspired beats, and bleeping 8-bit square wave patches. Channeling a varied palette of sounds at their disposal, the Dustin Wong + Takako Minekawa + Good Willsmith quintet's extended improvisations segue through contrasting atmospheres and emotional zones. Rock backbeats pulse behind dense clouds of guitar and voice before fading into clattering arrhythmia. Empty passages embodying the Japanese notion of "ma" (or intervals of negative space) erupt for short moments with individual interjections before sinking back into near nothingness. Design by Daniel Castrejón. Mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri." - Umor Rex .

 


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