ioioi - bright future (ebria)

this is another highlight in female experimental electronic music scene after tujiko norkiko and sophie rimheden. ioioi is signing fifth ebria records release ‘bright future’ inspired by kyoshi kurosawa movie with same title. each instrument on this release is played by her and she recorded all the stuff through the microphone of her laptop which is quite visible here. she plays voice, no words, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, kototoy, laptop, as well as singing on invented language mixed with japanese all that combined in undefined lo-fi combination. various samples, her voice, noises and broken irregular rhythm are intertwining one over another into glitchy cut up mixture. all is composed in one breath with childish approach. improvised, combined, collaged… into low-fi improv childish brico pop. she doesn't care much about the sound. lo-fi-ness is its charm. and she is doing all this very well. one of best pieces for this year so far.