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Title: Engaging, but not absolutely essential
Review: I like her work with, e.g., Mephisto better than her solo efforts, but she is still an artist to be reckoned with, no matter what her setting.One star is way too harsh. This may not be essential music, but it certainly has much to recommend it. Coming out of an aesthetic not unrelated to, say, Eyvind Kang's Sweetness of Sickness, or some of Susie Ibarra's solo work, Ikue Mori's Myrninerest works as a downtownish, free-jazz, industrial, sonic experiment.Certainly not everyone's cup of tea, but staking out a unique and, finally, brave soundscape--at least to these ears--this is music that consumers of adventurous New Music, electronica, out jazz, and Alva Noto-ish weirdness will want to check out. All in all, I'm glad to have made its acquaintance.
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