World's End Girlfriend - The Lie Lay Land [2005]

Genre: Abstract Electronica, Post-Rock, Avant-Garde

MySpace: worldsendgirlfriend

My opinion & thought: The Japanese one-man-army! Katsuhiko Maeda will kills you with his electronica post-rock sound. Sounds brilliantly from its very first track till the end. Mixture of raw brass horns, orchestra symphony, fuzzy noise guitar riffs and freaky laptop music, formed this very fine album.

Stands out track(s): We Are The Massacre, Scorpius Circus

World's End Girlfriend (ワールズ・エンド・ガールフレンド) is the musical project of Katsuhiko Maeda (Born November 1). Placing the solo musician's music into one well-defined genre is difficult, as it blends elements of electronica and post-rock to create a unique style.

Noble-label have released two albums of a now internationally acclaimed next-generation musician, world's end girlfriend, as the noble's launching artist. With the unprecedented success of his two albums, farewell kingdom and dream's end come true, he bridged genre gaps and was widely praised by the fans of techno, abstract, post-rock, avant pop and electronica. His musical career includes the performance in Sonar 2002, the biggest European festival of progressive music and multimedia arts held in Barcelona, Spain, and the successful tour in Taipei, Hong Kong and Macao in 2004.

He now returns with a band of freaky raw drums, horns, piano and a bass guitar, and tens of layers of guitar noise while retaining his well known style: excessive editing, collage and elegant strings arrangement. In self-produced The Lie Lay Land, his first album in two years, he created another grandeur fiction, 10 tracks, 80 minutes long.

Listening to The Lie Lay Land resembles watching the films, say, by Emir Kusturica or Jan Svankmajer who portray a fleeting fantasy ludicrously and poignantly at the same time, or the films of Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noe who always sway our emotions with a relentless and extremely demanding story progression. His music, like those films, shows us a fictional world as a finished work.

The artwork on the cover of The Lie Lay Land, the illustration of a well-known author of picture books, komako sakai, visually portrays world's end girlfriend's vision of the world.

Tracklisting:

1. Phantasmagoria Moth Gate 
2. We are the massacre 
3. Satan Veludo Children 
4. Garden in the Ceiling 
5. the owl of windward 
6. Scorpius Circus 
7. song cemetery 
8. Give me shadow, put on my crown. 
9. Black Hole Bird 
10. Unspoiled Monster