Primary Emotions/Themes: Tributes to far east Asian music, revisiting old music that was once lost
Thoughts: So the trilogy concludes. Everything that the series has built to from the start is manifested in it's finest form in these sixty minutes. Onra has perfected his craft, and the Chinoiseries is complete.
As large of a leap part 2 was from part 1, part 3 is equally as distant from part 2. Everything that was better in part 2 is now refined and honed to a greater degree on part 3. The beats are more creative, the sampling is more refined and the formation of the songs is the best the series has seen.
Part 3 of Chinoiseries sees Onra truly coming into his own with these songs. This isn't just any type of instrumental hip hop anymore. This is highly refined and expertly crafted. The songs are now dynamic in a way that they could never have been in part 1 or 2. Their length varies from 30 seconds to several minutes, and each one is a near perfect exploration of it's singular idea before moving on.
The album feels even more so like an album than the second part does. Everything here flows so damn well together, it's hard to believe that it's an hour long album. It feels like half that run time.
I won't have as much to say here as I did on the first two. Everything that has been said before applies here too, except it's just better. Everything here is more refined, shows more maturity, more playfulness, and more experimentation. This is what instrumental hip hop is all about, one of the absolute best entries into the genre in many many years.
Written November 14th 2023
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