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Eddie MarconShining On Graveposts Preservation From the ever-fertile Japanese music underground comes Eddie Corman, who named herself after the notorious horror filmmaker. She and drummer Bill have played together for more than a decade in the all-female psychedelic power duo Coa. 'Shining On Graveposts', however, is from another world; the fruit of her close musical partnership with bassist Marcon. Together with percussionist Masao, clarinetist Chaki and guest percussionist Bill, Eddie Marcon has created a hazily romantic collection of free-floating Zen-like folk. Sung in Japanese with Eddie's vocal multitracked, her spectral voice hovers in perfect range, her slow-picked acoustic guitar and caressed piano lilting amid dense bass sounds and free percussion. Between the grassy loam and the heavy-with-rain sky hang the nine songs that echo the angelic idyll of Linda Perhacs, the gentler moments of classic ESP-Disk folk and jazz and the mystical beauty of iconic 60s Japanese group Jacks. Each song moves at a languorous pace but the expertly crafted melodies are evident immediately. The splendour of the sound is in its unhurried intricacy, in the sustain of the bass and of the piano chords, the distant hearty boom of malleted tom drums and gonged cymbals, the mournful pull of the clarinet. The production is thick with reverb, Marcon's bass rising like an apparition through the fug. The smokiness of the recording only adds to the mystique and when Eddie's sumptuous harmonies surface like some moon-tanned Hawaiian seamaiden it makes for very special listening. Eddie's voice cradles you over the first seven pieces until a numbing siren of drumstick-on-guitar cuts through the warm incensed swirl and takes your breath away. It's left to the clarinet-led Radio, with its purring electric drone and Eddie's welcoming vocal to nurture you to convalescent bliss. Indeed it's rare records such as 'Shining On Graveposts' that come to us as nurses and ghosts and thankfully stay long after we've awoken.  |
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