Great albums 2: Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko
This “great albums” project is getting back on track. I’m going to try to do one of these per day for a while. First, Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko’s 28.
I heard this album before I had heard any Tujiko Noriko, and initially I wasn’t all that impressed. Later, I listened to (and enjoyed) Shojo Toshi, and so I returned to this. Aoki Takamasa I’m still not independently familiar with, but here he takes Noriko’s voice and does wonderful glitchy things with it while completely avoiding the cheese she occasionally lapses into in her solo work. More… »
