Eri Sugai, Mai - 50m 10s - Music Database

Tracks & Durations

1. Horizon	5:52
2. Honen Bushi	4:29
3. Konjaku Monogatari	6:04
4. Aqua	4:52
5. A Lullaby of Takeda	4:53
6. First Love	4:32
7. Mai	4:48
8. Rakuen	6:09
9. A Song of Birth	3:35
10. China Rose	4:48

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Review

Eri Sugai is the latest entry in the heavenly choir that includes Enya and Miriam Stockley of Adiemus. Like those artists, she multitracks her voice into angelic choruses, soaring over spare but emotional arrangements. Sugai, who is Japanese, applies her native traditions for a music that has that an Asian sense of detail, drawing her lines like fine calligraphy. Sugai also joins Lisa Gerrard, Miriam Stockley, and Azam Ali of Vas in creating her own language. Most of Mai, which means "dance," is sung in a fanciful string of ecstatic nonsense phonemes. But when Sugai uses them in her tribal stomps and gentle lullabies they sound like poetry. On "Honen Bushi" Sugai steps into the background, creating a vocal cloud around the lead voice of Anna Sugar, who sings a traditional song with a tribal beat and chanting chorus, while "Konjaku Monogatari," the only song in Japanese, is like a child's song turned into an expansive meditation. It's startling, at times, how close Sugai sounds to Adiemus, especially on "Aqua," a song that started out as a commercial. Sugai gets that same, keening sound of a Polynesian choir attained by Adiemus's Stockley and Karl Jenkins, but she eshews the pomp and classical pretensions of Adiemus, while also creating a more carefully detailed sound than Enya, with whom she's sure to be compared. --John DilibertoEri Sugai creates a unique and mysterious world, weaving together layers of rich vocal harmonies with traditional Asian instruments. The solo, multi-plex recording of the choruses creates a hauntingly beautiful sound of exceptional depth and texture.

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