Out of print since its first release back in 2018, one of the very brightest (and certainly my favourite) stars in the Siltbreeze constellation is back for another shot at the title. I've always found there to be more than a little mystery surrounding Daylight Moon, a record possibly recorded nearly twenty years prior to its release, possibly with the help of a few sympathetic musicians from the Philadelphia scene Iwata sporadically found himself involved with having quietly transplanted himself to the city from Japan, where he'd first spent time in an early formation of Maher Shalal Hash Baz. I say possibly because i'm not sure where the truth ends and the legend begins. Does it matter? The music is certainly fitting of such enigma, a lysergic concoction of downer rock murk, bluesy digressionals, and Velvets chug and jangle, all ghostly shadowplay projected on to the sky. And of course, there's that title poetically hanging their in the air like a teardrop in the eye just before it falls. Roughly speaking it fits that great lineage of Japanese outrock - Les Rallizes, Hallelujahs, Shizuka et al - though there's a unknown magic to these nine tracks that seem to be Iwata's alone, an expert treaty in doomed romanticism and impossible ideals. Daylight Moon: chercher midi à quatorze heures. Impossibly great. A forever ever record. Now please someone get Drowning In The Sky back in print ffs.
Yuzo Iwata – Daylight Moon
£26.00
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