Sunday, October 10, 2010

Pale Cocoon - 青空の実験室 / Secret Sounds 10" EP (Pafe, 1982)


Tracklisting

Side A
青空の実験室
自動人形

Side B
少女の歌
水たまり (Brain To Vain)

I first heard about this band from a collector who named them as one of his top 3 favorite bands from Japan - the other two were Wha-Ha-Ha and Picky Picnic. Well, if Wha-Ha-Ha is a bunch of highly-trained adult lunatics, and Picky Picnic is a daycare gone wrong, then Pale Cocoon is the brooding middle sibling locked up in his room reading Edgar Allen Poe. All sorts of weird stuff going on here: warbly synths, rickety, metronomic percussion, field recordings, alternating between pastoral and cloistered without ever losing the consistency of a very private sonic universe. One of the great unknown bands of the 80's, if I do say so myself.

3 comments:

edlorado said...

thanks!

Anonymous said...

Thanks a ton!

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