Inoué

Sound producer Akira Inoue has released a 30-volume album based on the concept of heritage 医 Ishinshin`. Talking to the five senses and mind and body of modern people, from fragrance, from art, and from music. A work that shapes the concept of `` I want to make life beautiful '' in all areas.

Tetsu Inoue's first solo work on Fax and a highly sought-after collectible. Some of the tracks bear a passing resemblance to Brian Eno's early generative experiments (Discreet Music, Evening Star) but Inoue's take is decidedly contemporary, with pillowy, mellifluous synth passages occasionally accented by subtle beats and lilting melodies.

Fax veteran Tetsu Inoue and newcomer Jonah Sharp produced this 1994 album of the trademarked sound of Fax - soft and spacey rhythms. The album mostly depends on the 47-minute "Morphing Cloud" which is fantastic and epic but rather spacious and seems stretched out to fill its running time. Sharp's quirky electronic noises and Inoue's spacey background ambience are indeed lush and dramatic but somewhat light and thinned out, with some moments that disrupt the blissful mood and put you on edge. "Replay" is an eerie interlude with a back-and-forth melody that serves as a kind of purgatory to wait through before "Floating Sync.", the fully-realized effort of this collaboration, comes in. With rich melodies, bass, gorgeous ambient background and harmonized vocal samples, this is the only instance you'll get of the two putting their full genius at work.

Inland is a gargantuan album. As its name suggests, the structure and sound design helps the listener to take a relaxing journey into his or her being and existence. It is tremendously cozy, and no track is out of place or alienating. In fact, each track is a winner, even the redued Symphony H2O which is only underwhelming in comparison to the remaining 7 tracks in which Inoue marries his reduced style of warm strings and occasional crackles with a lavish amount of thick synths, all of them glowing brightly and warmly. This is simply Inoue's most beautiful album, and if you like harmonious interplays of luxurious synth washes and spacious sections of relative peace with reverberated strings and whispering clicks, this is one of the best choices you can pick.