Kali Malone – The Sacrificial Code
A prodigious cello player, Hajime Mizoguchi’s early studio work was not in classical music but the pioneering experimental, ambient, and techno pop music of artists like Seigén Ono, Gontiti, Killing Time, and Minako Yoshida (as producer for Mari Iijima). His debut album Hajime Mizoguchi is very much in the same world as the aforementioned artists blending digital production (Computer, synths, samplers, drum machines) with modern classical composition and a Japanese new age aesthetic. “Hajime loved to make music that was contemporary and accessible, but in a way his music had a lot of ruminative and big-hearted romantic melancholy that one would shake off making purely technically-proficient music.” Read Fond Sound’s excellent deep-dive on Mizoguchi and this album: https://www.fondsound.com/hajime-mizoguchi-halfinch-dessert-1986/
Recommended – Full Listen
Tags: Modern Classical
Tracklist:
A1 Parallel World
A2 A Giraffe And The Moon
A3 King Kong In “Java”
A4 Gift From “La Mer”
A5 Dream Of Milk-Bush
B1 Rainy Field
B2 A Dream Come From The Wast
B3 Waltz On The Savanna
B4 Oriental Puzzle
B5 Under The Parasol, Under “La Soleil”
Credits:
Arranged By – Hajime Mizoguchi
Art Direction, Design – Makoto Suzuki (4)
Artwork By – Masao Ohba
Cello – Hajime Mizoguchi
Composed By – Hajime Mizoguchi
Drums – Hajime Mizoguchi
Keyboards – Hajime Mizoguchi
Photography By – Hideharu Satoh*
Sampler – Hajime Mizoguchi
Sequenced By – Hajime Mizoguchi
