Pale Cocoon
Mayu

LA RECENSIONE

繭. Mayu is the title of a mysterious work from 1984 by Pale Cocoon, a Japanese experimental music meteor of a group that puts all earthly miseries in a bubble, flying and gliding at high altitudes, like the sacred Ibis in the gray sky.

A search for an otherworldly, ethereal, and dreamy dimension, separated from the real world. The ideal setting is a dreamlike limbo, mystical, innocent, and protective, which triggers a separation from the conventional world.

A vaporous limbo with muted colors, veiled like alabaster, yet ascending to a temple of peace, a guardian of slow and ancient rhythms, confused in the most intricate, damp, and unhealthy earthly jungle.

Echoes of distant, whispered voices unfold in small childish melodies that accompany us, slow and clumsy travelers in the transfiguring and hallucinatory fog.

In the soundscape devoid of earthly references, the voices intone unsettling nursery rhymes, slowly emerging from audibility.

It is perhaps a chimerical album, fascinating, perhaps otherworldly, vaporous, perhaps bizarre, but above all disorienting.

The track Sora is the portal that introduces us to the world of Tsuyoshi Kawabata from Toyama, the founder of the group, reminiscent in its unfolding of a certain Cluster influence.

Shummin is a waltz with a hypnotic drum machine programming, leading a chorus of acoustic guitar and cosmic keyboard arrangements.

Automatic Doll has tones ranging from somber to cold, with sounds from a theater of horrors.

Microscorp recalls solemn rhythms and melodies so dear to Kraftwerk, the album's closure is Flaform, vaporous with mist from a lush jungle, and a melody that gives hope.

It is not a chrysalis from 40 years ago, it is a rare butterfly of this time.