GO KUROSAWA
Soft Shakes
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Chill-out meets psych from one-man jam machine.
Go Kurosawa, the drummer in Tokyo psych band Kikagaku Moyo, crafts a sneakily beguiling experience on his first solo album. Soft Shakes finds Kurosawa playing everything himself, building the music around the simple directive of picking up an instrument and seeing what came out. Even without other musicians present, there’s a sense of playfulness and spontaneity in the music, as Kurosawa jams with himself. His psych roots pop up in the trippy Autowalk, where an electronic pulse and chanted vocals underpin floating trumpet solos and a melody played on