Style: Ambient with jazz and vocal elements
Primary Emotions/Themes: Strange ambient music with a saxophone lending its notes along with several unconventional vocalists
Thoughts: Japan creates some of the worlds strangest music man. Ocean Garden looks like it should be a wonderful ocean themed ambient album... and that is partially true. However there is more. Right away on Tune Up we get an elderly man singing "let's get in tune" in a broken voice. Not quite what I expected considering the cover.
It doesn't stop there either. The whole album is ambient... with some extras thrown in. We get female spoken word, saxaphones playing solos, a Theremin at points, child like giggling, field recordings... it really never ends. I never know what's coming next.
Despite the strangeness I'm weirdly attracted to the album. I've always enjoyed off kilter music, and Ocean Garden is certainly that. If anything this album serves as a reminder that there is odd music that can sound good instead of being weird for weird's sake. I don't think I've heard something quite like this in the past, and likely never will again in the future.
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