Tetsu Inoue - Yolo (CD)

All Music Guide

DiN prides itself on its experimental nature, and so Tetsu Inoue handed the label Yolo, his ninth solo album, but debut for DiN, and his most radical to date. It's a set awash in subtle nuances and incredibly precise details, a pastiche of sonic fragments that the artist swiftly coalesces into intense aural vistas.It's also a complex album, with only the faintest wisps of occasional melody for listeners to grab hold of, and no rhythms to really speak of, which make the set challenging for the more mainstream ambient fan. It also makes it tough for the critic, for it lacks any easy pegs to hang one's review on.However, there's certainly an ebb and flow to the set, and a sereneness that encourages one to loose oneself in the textures and atmospheres within. But Inoue doesn't want the listener's mind to wander away, and thus there's disorientating sounds within as well. "Remote" rumbles with a fuzzy drone, and at one point a stick groove reverberating note, "Particular Moments" has a deli...berate fuzziness as well, as well as fizzing and crackles."Spirit of Data" is so fuzzy in spots, one is tempted to check one's CD and player for dust, at times the sound even skipped too, like a wellloved vinyl record. Even more experimental is the album opener, "Tane", created almost exclusively from fragments of sounds and effects that Inoue miraculously pulls together into a coherent piece. Harmonics seem to be the focus of "S Equation", which reach a dramatic apotheosis on "Sour Cloud", while "Super Nature" slithers into foreboding. Read more Less