A really cool album from June Chikuma – an artist best known for video game work, most famously the score for Bomberman Hero – heard here in a host of great cuts pulled from her archives! There's a nice mix of electric and acoustic elements going on in the music – keyboards, drum programs, and other bits from June – mixed with live violin, bass, and drums – and some other nice
touches too – all with these lovely little themes that take off from Japanese modes of the 80s – sometimes a bit like instrumental city pop, sometimes with elements of the more tuneful electronic instrumental work of the period. Titles include "Still Life", "Le Train", "
Midas Touch", "Back In My Arms", "Alpine Plant", and "Something Is Technically Wrong".
(Limited edition of 500 copies!)