Inspired by the great outdoors, the latest album from the Colorado musician and ambient artist is a gently psychedelic ode to all that is wild and wandering.
Setsubun (節分), came out in February, and the spring release,
Yamawarau (山笑う), arrived May 7. All three albums are credited to Jusell, Prymek, Sage, Shiroishi, but in a Cached newsletter announcing
Yamawarau, Sage proposed an alternative: fans could refer to the group as Fuubutsushi, a Japanese word that more or less means evoking nostalgia for a season, like cherry blossoms in spring. It s a fitting term for a group whose music echoes the subtle shifts of natural processes. On the
Yamawarau track Kodama, Shiroishi s soft, seraphic singing seems to summon a gradually intensifying instrumental interplay gently arpeggiating guitars, pitter-pattering percussion, duvet-plush horns and violins that s suggestive of a field of lilies coming into bloom.