Style: Ambient | Experimental | Pop
Marihiko Hara – “Cesura” (Zymogen)
Textures of Beauty | With Marihiko Hara's "Cesura", the inerrable Zymogen Netlabel dropped another outstanding Ambient-album. While Takeshi Nakamura, the other Japanese Artist on Zymogen, is commonly known for his razor sharp Digitronica, Marihiko Hara provides his diversified Ambient-textures with rather velvet gloves. Smooth electro-acoustic music with Pop-appeal and relevance? There you go!
Alongside Natsuko Yanagimoto, Marihiko is 50% of Experimental Pop-duo Rimacona. Their mixture of Jazz, Electronica and J-Pop is refreshing yet clearly based on Asian and European standards. Without his songstress, Marihiko creates spectacular music that does not know about borders. His texture are rich in sound and harmony, his glitches haven't been heard before, noise and melody are in perfect balance. It's difficult to pick certain songs because every one of them deserves attention... maybe you can start with the minimalistic bubbling "Traumfolge", the epic title track "Cesura", the piano-ballad "Konstellation" or "Modena" featuring Natsuko Yanagimoto on the mic. All-time classic, I'm serious.
MP3 Ambient Music Download
Release-Site: Marhiko Hara - "Cesura"
Direct Download: Marihiko Hara - "Cesura" ZIP
Netlabel: www.zymogen.net
Artist Website: www.myspace.com/marihikohara
About the Author
This article was written on 2.January 2008 by Bettina Rhymes.
Bettina Rhymes is the journalist alter ego of Sven Swift. Swift runs the established CDr- and Netlabel 12rec.net and acts as a Netaudio DJ every now and then. Next to his job at Phlow Mag, he writes reviews about free music at RUBored.org. Read more articles written by Bettina Rhymes.
(15 votes, average: 4.53 out of 5)
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5 comments
dear Bettina, thank you for the positive review!
:)
p.s. direct download link is wrong
3. Jan 2008 at 12:47 pm
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Modena is quite amazing! Overall reminds me of the artist Neina.
4. Jan 2008 at 10:12 pm
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hey flip, "modena", a coincidence?? sorry for the bad link, btw
5. Jan 2008 at 12:29 am
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[...] As posted on Phlow Magazine [...]
3. Feb 2008 at 1:47 am
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[...] the right music for his label. If you make up a compilation including Zymo folks Letna, Lezrod and Marihiko Hara, people might doubt there’s more than one artist featured at all. Taking place between the [...]
14. Apr 2008 at 11:01 am
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