Fresh green spring music by Yumenoma
Another fine piece of music, downloadable for free at Tanukineiri, the tableware manufacturers who happen to dabble in quality indie pop on the side. This time it’s Yumenoma, a solo-project by Shinya Nakajima, who was in a couple of bands I’ve never heard of.
I wonder if Yumenoma, which is written in katakana, the Japanese ‘alphabet’ usually reserved for foreign words, but which sounds like 夢の間, could be translated as ‘in between dreams’.
I have a thing for bare-footed short-haired girls in frumpy summer-dresses, I really do, so there’s that. But also the music is a kind of dilettantish, subversive dream-pop that I like a lot. It reminds me of the music of Juana Molina, who also sings in a soft voice, accompanied by gentle music but with eerie elements, like that wailing guitar that sounds like it’s played backwards.
Anyway, the other two songs on the free E.P., called ‘Shinryoku no Kaze‘ (which translates to something like ‘wind of fresh greens’ or ‘fresh, green wind’) are different but equally great. I don’t see why you wouldn’t add it to your collection. (PB)
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