The Structure of My Endoskeleton

Gottfried Helnwein - The Last Days of Pompeij (1987)

Miho Hatori added a splash of fish sauce to her intoxicating sugar and water cocktail with "Ecdysis" and it swims with a similar playful wonder to her trademark Micheal Gondry Cibo Matto video. Music can be opressive to artists who want to expose their audience to a complete artistic frameshift, as every track needs to keep a beat to keep an ear (everything else lands in the barren "noise" pile). Miho, however, manages to articulate a simultaneous experimental confidence and vulnerable grace that a typically critical listener will use to excuse her for ranting on about a futuristic, insect-laden parable in pseudo-spoken-word. Entitled "Walking City", this is my favourite piece on the album, and its deeply thoughtful beauty is something I would never wish to be merited firstly on its "unconvention". Unconvention is completely natural on this pioneering solo-statement and after repeating the album a couple times, will be something you begin calling the radio. Because "Ecdysis" is its own kind of beauty and unconvention better applies to music that offers nothing; means nothing. What then is it for?

Miho Hatori - Barracuda (mp3)