Ogurusu Norihide biography, Ogurusu Norihide discography
Sorry, the page you're trying to reach is unavailable or the page may no longer exist.Click your browser's Refresh button to try reconnecting.Click here to return to the MSN Entertainment home page or click this link for help."Ogurusu Norihide on MSN Music";s.Ogurusu Norihide lives a double life : by day, studying to become a shinto priest in the shrines of Tokyo, on his off hours, hard at work in his room creating some of the freshest hybrids of acoustic and electronic music.From the intimate acoustic guitar solo of the opening track (simply titled 0:52?Ogurusu shows he is one of the leading purveyors of minimal pop.Listening to 'Humour' conjures up comparisons to such seemingly disparate artists as The Beatles, Brian Eno, Jorge Ben, and Taylor Deupree.Web Design and Engineering by Default, business intelligence by SpringBolt."Humour, Ogurusu's debut for Carpark, blends aspects of pop, techno, and Japanese folk using an array of instruments like guitar, bass, keyboard, powerbook, recorder and percussion.Ogurusu Norihide's Modern is part of the burgeoning 'laptop folk' scene alongside fellow Carparkers Greg Davis and Takagi Masakatsu, but to limit his music to this tag would do Ogurusu a great injustice.His music follows its own path, informed as much by contemporary Japanese culture as by the ancient religious and cultural institutions of the Shinto faith.For Ogurusu Norihide is a certified Shinto priest, having completed his studies in Tokyo last year, Ogurusu has returned to his hometown of Kyoto to concentrate fully on music.Like all great artists, Ogurusu Norihide completely reshuffles your ideas and preconceptions and deals them out in a way you didn't think was possible."Had these downtechno beats been omitted there might be a better consistency to the album, but so it goes.It would not surprise me if it were aleatoric or based on some kind of indeterminate compositional technique.Fahey vision, played less aggressively, but with a keen ear to its folky origins.The careful overdubs, backwards guitar lines and other decorations remind us that the songs are carefully balanced, constructed from the ground up.With a decidedly more upbeat tone than the rest of the album, it displays a different side of Norihide than the previous forty minutes.Keeping it within context, but not diverting from the essence.
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