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ISSIN 1988-2006 ULTRA- MAIL.PROD 004 3CD ●
total 46songs 2006 |
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| From the dark opening “Leave a temple” to the quiet “I will wait”, from the beautiful and melodic “Chinese dragon” to the soft “Rompish girl”, from the tension of “Solitary” to the optimistic “Advance together”, from “Lily dyed red” to “Snow line”, I feel ISSIN as the essence of JOJ’s universe. ISSIN is a deep and beautiful research in sounds recorded between 1988-2006. The box is divided in 3 discs ?Dark, Light and Outside and inside of it you can find precious information about the releases during all those years. ISSIN means “singleness of mind” as said in the information and is close related to the way JOJ create theirmusic. Actually it’s whole concept is very important for who will listen to their music. At the beginning it was hard for me since I’ve always perceived JOJ’s music in a very emotional way, but after the first hearing all the songs found their place in my mind and stayed there, making me remember of how beautiful ISSIN is. The collection contains everything JOJ is and was, fragments of moments of happiness and sadness, in a very emotional and surreal way of singing and performing. And all of those fragments of happiness, sadness, beauty, life and death, and life one more time, after passing through the listener and leaving a trace in the mind found themselves in ISSIN again. I feel ISSIN as one of the closest JOJ albums to me along with “Mujyo” and “Towards the event horizon”. I can say that JOJ’s music is the only music I feel not only as sound, while listening, but also from the inside and during all my life. And I thank Chako and Makoto so much for that. |
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written by Nikifor ( From Bulgaria) |
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