Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana

Posted by - October 7, 08

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Just want to get the led out, but it’s not Zeppelin, it’s the pop-fusion sound of Shiina Ringo’s Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana (加爾基 精液 栗ノ花, 2003, lyrics).

I’ve been listening to this album recently, and find it extremely flush and variant in sound. We’re talking circus to the cabaret, roller-rink to the organ house. Musically, the album is mesmerizing, confusing, fluttering… like seeing a burning moth soaring in the sky with a single wing. It’s beautiful, glimmering with a great range of instruments, and dark+bewildering in just the right places.

as if it were candlelight…
…Intoxicating

Though it was released in 2003, I wanted to put a shout out on the album, because it is quite exceptional.

You can listen to the final climax

btw: Souretsu, the last track, would make a fantastic AMV, but I’m going to say I can’t decide on an epic enough anime to truly fulfill it.

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  1. blissmo says:

    The only Jap songs I ever listen to are ones from anime OPs and EDs or songs by EXILE :P

    But I’m willing to give this a try as well

  2. Ryan A says:

    Well, I can’t say if Shiina Ringo (or Tokyo Jihen) has done any OP/ED, I’d like to think so, but off the top of my head, dunno.

    It has a good flavor, though it may feel strange at times.

  3. Kurogane says:

    Oh god, Shiina Ringo is awesome.

    Damn, you’ve gotten me looking for this again. I lost all my Shiina stuff in a tragic HDD burnout last year.

  4. Ryan A says:

    Do it!!!! Fortunately there is the large site where people put stuff. She is fantastic, I had listened to the Tokyo Jihen stuff, but never her singles, and this one stuck out. Love the flavor.

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