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Artist:
TUJIKO, NORIKO
Title:
Shojo Toshi+
Label:
EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
EMEGO 047CD
2006 reissued/remastered version of this 2001 international debut album, with new artwork and bonus tracks. This was Tujiko Noriko's first international release (after the limited Japan-only release
Make Up and Soldier
). The initial response was one of surprise that such a record could be released on Mego (at the time the label was pigeonholed as a label dealing exclusively in "laptop music," whatever that is). Despite this, the overall reaction was very positive, although
Brainwashed
decided to declare the whole thing "Bullshit bullshit BULLSHIT!!!" and that Noriko didn't actually exist. Well, sorry to break the news, but she does, and she has since made albums for Mego, Tomlab and Room40 as well as collaborations with
Aoki Tokomasa
,
Port Radium
and
Lionel Fernandez
, plus performing her brilliant songs for French theatre group DACM and making a film (
Sand and Mini Hawaii
).
Shojo Toshi+
contains some of Tujiko Noriko's most accomplished songs such as "White Film," "Machi No Kakera" and "Differencia." These are beautifully abstracted pop songs and arrangements intertwined with shards and splinters of alienated sound, all building up to that voice. In places pure melancholy reigns, in others blistering beats come charging through the speakers. This reissued edition is skillfully remastered by
Marcus Schmickler
(
Pluramon
). It contains, as a bonus, the tracks previously released on the long out-of-print
I Forgot The Title
12" vinyl, and has new artwork.
Artist:
TUJIKO, NORIKO
Title:
Solo
Label:
EDITIONS MEGO (AUSTRIA)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
EMEGO 078CD
This is Osaka's
Tujiko Noriko
's third-full length release for Editions Mego. While still maintaining her trademark version of experimental Japanese pop, on
Solo
the edges have been polished with some of Noriko's most accomplished works. In part due to the mixing skills of
Gerhard Potuznik
and
Tyme
(from
Mas
). One could even say a work of great maturity. Noriko herself best describes the record this way: "
Making music was like I drive and drive looking for a place where there is nobody. I would arrive there, wow cool, I get out of the car quickly. Then I happily dance, sing, doing a mini-party alone. Doing a solo show alone in a big green field. There is a lake, the sun, a train, an airplane, the city, a forest, camera, second sight & everything in the field, etc. Anyway, it's nice when it's working well. I had forgotten this way of enjoying for a while. Last year, after some collaboration albums, I remembered I wanted to have this feeling again.
"
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