Satoshi

Satoshi’s first solo retrospective spans diverse styles and patterns within a neat theme, and is impressively, mostly chiselled from a single synth - the Casio CZ-5000. Aside to the blissed mid-tempo Balearic sway of ‘New Dawn’ with Benedek & Kuniyuki, it’s all Satoshi solo, glyding from glistening bleeps recalling 1991 in ‘Sazanami’ to make us do a few double takes with the glitching house strut of ‘Coastlines’, to the sort of obsessive efficiencies recalling Theo Burt’s incredible ‘Gloss’ (itself made with a single synth) or FUJI||||||||||TA between the blushing pads and clipped strut of ‘Cosmic Zephyr 101’, his burbling organ on ‘Chimney Pipes’, and the atmospheric subtleties of ‘Behind the Clouds’, his heart-in-mouth flutters on ‘Aerial View’, or the heady tone to ’Crepuscule’.