"Bara Bara Na Bamen" is a beautiful new collection from Hisato Higuchi, we are delighted to be releasing this album being long term fans of Hisato and his music.
"Bara Bara Na Bamen" roughly translates in English to Scattered Scenes, and this is an effective description of the music presented here. Featuring Hisato on guitar and vocals throughout.
Hisato Higuchi was born in Nagoya, Japan and currently lives in Tokyo. Hisato began his artistic travels as a puppeteer for a theater company before creating his own music at home. Hisato Higuchi self released his CD EP She in 2003, and has since recorded for a variety of labels, most notable for Family Vineyard with the albums "Dialogue", "Butterfly Horse Street", "Henzai"
"Bara Bara Na Bamen" is released on an edition of 100 copies in a pro-printed and produced Digipak. All photographs are by Hisato Higuchi, with design by Brian Lavelle.
The tracklisting is;
1.Katamari Kara Nagareru Mono
2.Ushiro No Kao
3.Borei To Tambourine
4.June
5.Blind Lemon Jefferson's Necktie No.2
6.Tobari
7.Ushi To Jujika
8.Blind Lemon Jefferson's Necktie No.3
9.Tonari No Heya No Siranai Band
10.Nijimu Kubi
11.Otakibashi Dori O Nukete
12.Toku No Kosoku Doro Kara
13.Ikutsumono Heya
* Electric Guitar, Vocals by Hisato Higuchi
* Recorded, Mixed, Mastered by Hisato Higuchi
* Recorded, December, 200
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"Edition of 100 copies CD from hermetic Japanese underground guitarist/vocalist Hisato Higuchi. Higuchi specialises in internally explosive/spectral electric guitar with all of the spell-binding nocturnal poetry of Loren Connors. He accompanies himself with whispered and variously convulsed vocals that function more in terms of colour and feel than any kind of narrative singer/songwriter trajectory, sometimes just hovering over the track as he bends single notes for long seconds on end. Bara Bara Na Bamen – which translates as Scattered Scenes – represents a development of his sound in that the skeletal single notes are now bracketed by the kind of finger-picking and deconstructed blues patterns of the late John Fahey, specifically his work for Table Of The Elements, and in turn Higuchi’s music feels like it has opened out a little, less focused on personal trauma and revelation and more on landscape, character and elemental power. A great solo guitar set packaged with photography from Higuchi himself. Recommended."
David Keenan for Volcanic Tongue
Hisato Higuchi is a Japanese musician who on ‘Bara Bara Na Bamen’ - ‘English To Scattered Scenes’ - presents an album of minimal (almost non-existent in some places) tracks, all of which marry quiet, reflective guitar playing with vocals that in many places sound more like a cello, or some other stringed instrument with bassy tones. Though split into thirteen cuts, the album varies not at all in timbre through its thirty two minute duration, but this shortness, allied to the brevity of the tracks, does make it listenable. It's a curious experience though, as that peculiar vocal style drifts over a peculiar guitar style. If nothing else, the album is unique.
Terrascope May 2012
