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It's no surprise for anyone reading this blog that I'm a fan of everything that comes out from the Japanese Ricco label. And my special feelings go to the label's artistic collective Anoice. After two other releases already appearing here, it's time for the band's sixth long play called The Hidden Forest.
And just as the title, as well as our experience with the previous releases, suggest - the music here is beautiful, airy and moody. There's hardly many music projects out there that can compete with the level of atmospheric vibes with the Japanese, that's certain. The tones here can be ethereally light and gloomily dark and they can be experienced almost simultaneously and no, it's not impossible. It first happens in a perfect day for a funeral, a track the title of which already suggests it, with the extremely beautiful strings filling souls with calmness and the last notes damaging it with unnerving anxiety. The album goes from the barely audible neoclassical and ambient beauty up to the post-rock-like might wherever it's necessary.
Due to the pandemics, the creative process for the release took longer than usually but perhaps that's why the album feels so thoroughly thought-through with its cinematic properties making me think that each song was prepared for a particular, detailed scene. Perhaps not for a movie but for lives of each of us. In reality, the songs were inspired by Naoko Okada's paintings (one of them is featured as the cover art too). Those show the powerful nature and its forces shown through fantasy/fairy-tale-like lenses and I find it very suitable for Anoice's music indeed. This nature is also present in the music itself with the multitude of field recordings making the backgrounds of those captivating compositions.
The Hidden Forest costs 8.99 USD.
Check: the storyteller's music
Country: Japan
Genre: atmospheric neoclassical
Label: Ricco
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