(2019) Masaki Batoh - Nowhere

Review: 
After three albums in two years with his psych quintet The Silence, ex-Ghost musical guru Masaki Batoh returns to his solo roots for Nowhere, an album on which he wrote all songs and played all instruments. He began the project by trying to express a spiritual reality about the pervasiveness of impermanence and booked time at Tokyo’s analogue GOK Sound. His initial approach was a singer/songwriter album, but this transcends those limits. He cut direct-to-tape acoustic guitar and vocal performances of each of these eight songs with two mics. If he deemed it necessary, more instruments and effects were added later to flesh out a particular tune; he was able to overdub without losing the immediacy of the original take. Batoh accompanied himself on vintage acoustic 6-and-12 string guitars and a 5-string banjo. Each track was played in the “drop D” tuning he learned from Martin Carthy while traveling through London in 1972. Depending on the tune, Batoh adds eerie harmony vocals, spooky reverb, organic percussion, mellotron, basses, electric guitars and harp. 
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Tracklist: 
01 - Nowhere.flac 
02 - Tower of the Silence.flac 
03 - Tambourine.flac 
04 - Devil Got Me.flac 
05 - Gaucho No Sora.flac 
06 - Dum Spiro Spero.flac 
07 - Sundown.flac 
08 - Boi-Taull.flac 

Summary: 
Country: Japan 
Genre: folk-rock, psychedelic rock