Tujiko Noriko review in The Weekend Australian.
The Weekend Australian: January 14 - 15 2006
Blurred in My Mirror
Osaka born singer Tujiko Noriko teamed up with Australian electronic musician Lawrence English in 2004 to see what they could create using just a microphone and a laptop. The resulting four songs became the building blocks for Blurred in My Mirror, Noriko's sixth album. Over Lawrence's attractive electronica - fat glitch beats, ripples of static and instrument samples rich with organic contrast - Noriko sings with a small but distinctive voice in both Japanese and English. Aki Onda, Benjamin Thompson and David Kemp also make contributions, creating unexpected shifts of tone that on the whole work well. Onda's Portishead-style production for Tablet for Memory is a touch cloying, but Thompson's saxaphone on I'm not Dreaming, King injects an entrancing European jazz quality. Blurred in My Mirror is a mellow Kaleidoscope that obscures the divide between pop and experimentation. Sean Rabin
I am sooooo European Jazz Chic right now...hehehe
Blurred in My Mirror
Osaka born singer Tujiko Noriko teamed up with Australian electronic musician Lawrence English in 2004 to see what they could create using just a microphone and a laptop. The resulting four songs became the building blocks for Blurred in My Mirror, Noriko's sixth album. Over Lawrence's attractive electronica - fat glitch beats, ripples of static and instrument samples rich with organic contrast - Noriko sings with a small but distinctive voice in both Japanese and English. Aki Onda, Benjamin Thompson and David Kemp also make contributions, creating unexpected shifts of tone that on the whole work well. Onda's Portishead-style production for Tablet for Memory is a touch cloying, but Thompson's saxaphone on I'm not Dreaming, King injects an entrancing European jazz quality. Blurred in My Mirror is a mellow Kaleidoscope that obscures the divide between pop and experimentation. Sean Rabin
I am sooooo European Jazz Chic right now...hehehe