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Swayzak, Himawari

Audio CD

Disk ID: 484555

Disk length: 1h 4m 8s (12 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Illegal 4:16
2. Kensai Rising 4:23
3. State Of Grace 4:55
4. Leisure Centre 5:31
5. Mysterons 4:32
6. Doobie 7:29
7. Caught In This Affair 5:13
8. Japan Air 0:32
9. Pineapple Spongecake 5:09
10. The Frozen Loch 5:41
11. Floyd 7:12
12. Betek 9:09

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Review

Any techno outfit worth its weight can move a room, but only the few and the proud, such as Swayzak's James Taylor and David Brown, can create one. Shimmering washes of keyboards buckle and waver like heat-choked air. The wail of an alien patrol car weaves its way around an apoplectic hi-hat. Melodies squelch like mud between the toes one minute, then twitter and hum like insects the next. While there are some fine Motor City minimalist moments to be had, Himawari is a deeper affair than its predecessor, Snowboarding in Argentina. Another notable aspect of this sophomore effort is its dabbling with vocals. Poet Benjamin Zephaniah presides over the dubbed-out skank of "Illegal." J.B. Rose's house-diva shenanigans on "Caught in This Affair" are serviceable, if a bit predictable. It's Kirsty Hawkshaw, however, who steals the show. The woman responsible for the blissed-out coo on Orbital's "Halcyon and On and On" lends some divinity to "State of Grace," the best Yaz song Vince Clarke never wrote. --Bob Michaels

Other Versions

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Himawari

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 11m 31s (+7m 23s)

Himawari

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 11m 33s (+7m 25s)

Himawari

Tracks: 12, Disk length: 1h 11m 35s (+7m 27s)

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