“The ruins had burnt down.
It is an innumerable crack in the glass.
The light of the sunbeam at a low position shone on the ruins.
Crazy power of diffused reflection.
I was standing in front of the ruins when noticing by chance.
I was a kid.
And now, shining ruins summons me again.”
That’s about as close as words are going to get me to this release, just throwing back Shinobu Nemoto’s own words at you as if the act will illuminate as to the subject to you. However we can know that this artist that previously used electric guitars, tape echo and stomp boxes recorded on 4 track has moved on to a more pristine electric guitar drone fuzz sound. The subject matter, Pride, Envy, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Melancolia, Oblivion and two untitled tracks fit with the artwork of Buddhist inclination inclined to a moral education for cultivation of the character. So perhaps we can presume the Analog Path is close in proximity to the Middle road or perhaps even the shining path. Regardless of these glib musings; consider the guitar technique applied at times as if a sharp spike to the mind, a quick consciousness lesson for the unaware. Shards of delicate fuzz cloud the scape as the guitar extrudes long drones, sometimes bright and metallic, yet more than not a dark brooding sound is shaped by Nemoto, with layers of noise drenching the surrounds. It can be otherwise summed up as clouds of fuzz drenched guitar drones hinting back to the first glimmer of light.
Innerversitysound
