“It’s more of a vibe that spreads through the people.For the price of a book, we can share that book online forever. “Music is not actually a concrete thing,” Oyamada told Pitchfork in 2007. That Cornelius even linked up with such seemingly disparate talent reflects his broad palette, as does the My Bloody Valentine-esque shoegaze of “New Music Machine,” and “Free Fall,” the muzak of “2010” and the hoedown bumpkin affectations of “Thank You For The Music.” (The Apples had their heyday around this time, too, releasing their synth-heavy Tone Soul Evolution that same September and championing their label, the Athens, Ga.-based Elephant Six Collective as the foremost heralds of late ’60s sonic sunshine.) There’s a kitsch factor at work here for sure, especially when elements of the electronics on Fantasma sound a little bit dated. Those keys definitely sound like they’re from ’97, but so does the sunshine pop of “Chapter 8,” which features Apples in Stereo frontman Robert Schneider and brings a modicum of American paisley baroque pop into the rest of the sonic wash.
The term started as a sort of slang for a regional style, but it stuck for a reason. Shibuya-kei looked at these sonic hallmarks and imposed upon them instrumentation and production styles that were purely Japanese.
This week though, the reissue deities have descended upon Cornelius, as his third album, 1997’s Fantasma, sees a deluxe re-release via Lefse/Post Modern records.įantasma often gets referred to as a “cut and paste” style of making music (see: Beck, Avalanches, etc.,) where samples and found sounds serve to transition and shift a song, the veritable bonding agent between Cornelius’ different genre explorations. To Japanese ears though, the term “ Shibuya-kei” proves far more fitting.Įmerging as Japanese retail music from the Sibuya district, Shibuya-kei wove in sounds of Brazillian bossanova, the French “ye-ye” lounge-pop of singers like Serge Gainsbourg, and the orchestral pop of composers like Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. Sensuous was the last Cornelius album to grace our ears, nearly 10 years ago.
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