Hakobune

Hakobune (Takahiro Yorifuji to his mum) plows a productive furrow in the old ambient drone world, as proved by previous quality releases (at least if Phil's reviews are to be believed) on labels such as Hibernate and Symbolic Interaction. He's also popped up on Install before too so they must've known what to expect from this full length which is chock full of lovely, warm guitar drones to warm your cockles now the weather's starting to turn.. It makes for a comforting listen but by no means an unchallenging one, as there's a lot of depth and complexity in the sound which is always on the move, ever shifting, morphing and fading away before you, much in the vein of light smoke in the air and equally as enjoyable to sit and observe. (Norman Records)