Mariah – Mariah [USED LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic additional details beyond the fact

additional details beyond the fact that it exists are quite thin

using prerecorded tapes

and it's really hard to figure out which instrument is which

but the flesh has been stripped from their sound

Recorded at his home in Sydney during the height of that first lockdown with a wild creative energy only amplified by strict aesthetic control - almost all of the album was recorded on the one keyboard featured on the cover artwork - it’s ironic that at a time when we basically got several years worth of reflective home listening albums recorded in isolation

Mariah – Mariah [USED LP] Folk / Blues / Ethnographic additional details beyond the factdebut record from yasuaki shimizu group, wiggy blends of jazz rock noodling & synth pop eleganza. Yupiteru, 1979