track list:
Kuk
Talk to You
GGGGR (mp3)
Hmmm
Sukinan
Humummmm
Nuine
ITE
Hug or Kiss Me
Yumy (mp3)
Soi
XEXE
Dashyou
OOO
Hei
A quiet hurricane. It’s been heading straight for us, but no one has really put out the warning call yet, and it’s probably to late. Over the last couple year Nobuko Hori has been building up, making album covers, music videos. Appearing in collaborations, doing remixes. Including working with other people like Christopher Willits (12k, Ghostly International), and O.Lamm (Active Suspension), to name a few. Now that she has reached full steam, landfall will be soon. In this case, the torrent of energy is mainly build out of some jacked up electronics, and nobuko’s voice. Sometimes quiet, sometimes loud.
The sound ebb and flow, sometimes lulling you into safety, other time tossing you out into center of the storm.
Nobuko was born and raised in the Kansai area of Japan. Witch is the area around Osaka. There must be something in the water there, cause it seems to culture people with no boarders on art. She moved to Tokyo to study art, and has since moved to NYC. We here at music related think she’s a great unique talent, and continues the kansai’s area history of pushing left field pop and experimentation forward. We’re happy to finally release her debut album “xtoyourmilkyhair”.
press:
“more exhilarating moments of weirdness via Japan in the shape of nobuko hori who cuts, samples, dislocates and manipulates sound mediums with such deft aplomb you have to wonder how she has managed to escape so far from featuring on one of those hallowed and near legendary split 12 inch releases that Fat Cat occasionally release with the aim of keeping you on your toes. From moments of half woken fluffiness and hallucinogenic flashbacks as on ’Sukinann’, being hauled backwards in a moment of time by the scruff of the neck via the deeply disorientating reverse looping ’hug or kiss me’ or the decidedly skittering beats and stuttering floral psyche template of ’soi’ - Hori keeps you constantly on the back foot miserably trying to second guess her next move without success.” -losingtoday
“Now, after exploring other realms of her creativity and collaborating with and remixing others’ music, Ms. Hori is releasing her own LP! And it’s absolutely fantastic! I like albums that seamlessly meld disparate sounds and style, and Nobuko’s does so in a dazzling way: from distorted noise to melodious bedroom folk to experimental minimalist looping to space-pop to … so much more. Yeah, it sounds like a bumpy and jerky ride, the album, but somehow everything’s strung together in an absolutely stunning way.” -bibabidi.com
“The latest release from Nobuko Hori on Music Related is some of the most exciting music I’ve hard in a while. I love how free it is, and that strange metallic lead that threads so many of the songs is perfect, just great.” -Roddy Schrock
“Nobuko’s album is more spikey, and in parts reminds me of Hypo (why hasn’t she collaborated with Antony yet?) in the aggression of her cut-copy-paste procedures. I think it’s probably going to get played less than Sawako’s album, but leave perhaps a more profound mark on what I actually do when I make music.” -Momus
