Reiko & Tori Kudo – これから (From Now On) [CD] Industrial / Power Electronics Sachiko's deft high-frequency interventions and

Sachiko's deft high-frequency interventions and Otomo's guitar at the center -- moving between abrasive textural invention and suggestive single-note runs of ever-shifting melody

where the joyful frenzy of a wedding song can mingle seamlessly with a hypnotic and transcendent yet profane mysticism

nor sonic or musicianly hierarchy

a seesawing restlessness reflected in the titles (“I Have Found True Love

Reiko & Tori Kudo – これから (From Now On) [CD] Industrial / Power Electronics Sachiko's deft high-frequency interventions and"'Document of a recent (November 2008), intimate live show by Reiko Kudo and her husband Tori (of Maher Shalal Hash Baz fame). Long two of the most original figures in the Japanese underground, Reiko sings of the subtlest of everyday epiphanies, of those instants of momentary joy, pain and delight that flash by like ghosts glimpsed from the corner of the eye. Their simplicity and mystery is entirely disarming and deeply personal. She sings from a