ANRI - TROUBLE IN PARADISE (2011)

For this new album, Anri decides to join forces with Akira Inoue, a keyboardist specializing in Jazz Fusion, electronic music and Progressive Rock, composer and producer of City Pop between 78 and 83.
Thus, as for Coool in the US, Trouble In Paradise is not registered in Japan but in England! The musicians, far from being strangers, have played with Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, King Crimson, Yes, Mike Olfield...

But then, with all these beautiful people in it, what does Trouble In Paradise offer us?
City Pop? As I see it here, indicated on this page and which makes me smile? Of course not ! This confusion of genres becomes painful in the long run...I don't have the absolute truth but there is a big difference in style and sound between Bi-Ki-Ni released in 83 in the golden age of City Pop and this album. The real genre addressed here by Anri is that of Kate Bush: Progressive Pop or Progressive Kayõkyoku! Of course the formula here is lighter (don't push it either) but from Anri used to a very colorful Pop universe, that's surprising.

Supported by excellent composers like Hiroshi Sato, Anri holds a concrete album. The titles are solid and are arranged in a very sophisticated way. We very often think of Kate Bush when she produced English Pop with a complex construction, basically, a complicated simplicity. If some titles are a little sugary and bring us back to Anri's Kayõkyoku past, others surprise by daring the composed meter and convoluted ostinati without mentioning the changes of keys. This is the hallmark of progressive albums! For this new album, Anri decides to join forces with Akira Inoue, a keyboardist specializing in Jazz Fusion, electronic music and Progressive Rock, composer and producer of City Pop between 78 and 83.
Thus, as for Coool in the US, Trouble In Paradise is not registered in Japan but in England! The musicians, far from being strangers, have played with Alan Parsons Project, Kate Bush, King Crimson, Yes, Mike Olfield...

But then, with all these beautiful people in it, what does Trouble In Paradise offer us?
City Pop? As I see it here, indicated on this page and which makes me smile? Of course not ! This confusion of genres becomes painful in the long run...I don't have the absolute truth but there is a big difference in style and sound between Bi-Ki-Ni released in 83 in the golden age of City Pop and this album. The real genre addressed here by Anri is that of Kate Bush: Progressive Pop or Progressive Kayõkyoku! Of course the formula here is lighter (don't push it either) but from Anri used to a very colorful Pop universe, that's surprising.

Supported by excellent composers like Hiroshi Sato, Anri holds a concrete album. The titles are solid and are arranged in a very sophisticated way. We very often think of Kate Bush when she produced English Pop with a complex construction, basically, a complicated simplicity. If some titles are a little sugary and bring us back to Anri's Kayõkyoku past, others surprise by daring the composed meter and convoluted ostinati without mentioning the changes of keys. This is the hallmark of progressive albums! Anri continues to amaze us by trying other musical forms and that's good. continue to amaze us by trying other musical forms and that's good.