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Title: Complex rhythms, layered and looped
Review: After I heard Ikue Mori's Painted Desert album, I bought this. It's very good, but it takes a while to get into it. Garden is a collection of drum machine songs with no accompaniment. It's just Ikue Mori going crazy with loops, rhythms, synthesized gongs and chimes, stuttering beats, and layered drums.The sounds on this album are complex. Ikue Mori is an expert at keeping you off-balance without making the rhythms sound random. You can sense an underlying logic to this stuff, but you can't hear it consciously. If you like avant-garde music, you'll like this. It will make you want to explore more of Ikue Mori's interesting, innovative work.
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