Very chill, very trippy, sounds like shattered from a dream and feels like heroin. Rhyming was unintentional and regarding the heroin, I never experienced it, so, probably my perception it’s at least false. And then again this music it’s smooth, floating, heaven-like. I’ve never been in heaven as well, so, I might be wrong again. The music it’s beautiful. We all have a different perception of beauty, but this is really nice. Quite cinematic, smoothly layered and smartly chilled, merging Trip Hop with Dream Pop, and Glitchy IDM with classic music, the Japanese Matryoshka creates a very comfortable and restorative ambiance with their minimalist, but nicely flowing music. The duo it’s made of Sen responsible with the instrumentals while Calu it’s the female vocalist. She’s angel-like singing reminds me mostly of Julee Cruise (probably best known for “Falling”, the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks). They are based in Tokyo, Japan, and this album was released on 12-12-2012 by Virgin Babylon Records, perhaps this is their second album, but my Japanese it’s pretty rusty and I did not manged to dig out any further useful information about them.
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Tracklist:
01 – Monotonous Purgatory
02 – Noctambulist
03 – Sacred Play Secret Place
04 – Instant Immortal
05 – Cut All Trees
06 – Butterflysoup
07 – Hallucinatory Halo
08 – Oblivion
09 – Niedola
10 – Gentle Afternoon
Matryoshka – Official Site
Matryoshka @ MySpace
Matryoshka (Unofficial) Facebook
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBfut30luVk&w=545&h=307]
