K. Yoshimatsu - Fossil Cocoon: The Music of K. Yoshimatsu (2024) [Hi-Res]

Phantom Limb rounds up the most vital material from cult Japanese outsider Koshiro Yoshimatsu's prolific 1980-'85 run, when he released around 40 albums.

Now a filmmaker, Yoshimatsu spent a few short years furiously recording, with bands and friends as well as solo, in his home studio. He'd been a member of of the experimental band Juma, who managed to record and release six albums in the space of a year, while he was still at university, and after releasing his debut solo tape 'pʌls' on DD. Records in 1981, began to flood the label with oddball experiments. 'Fossil Cocoon' takes a wide look at Yoshimatsu's musical output: we get to hear his productions for singer Fumie Yasamura on the whimsical, electro-samba styled 'Violet' and the peppery, industrial 'Escape', his brush with electrified prog on the hallucinogenic 'Jerusalem' and an experiment with new age synths, metallic noise and chocolate box piano on the bizarre '1841'.

Yoshimatsu comes into his own on 'Pastel Nostalgia', snipped from the 1983 album of the same name. Here, the producer pitch bends slow motion piano loops with giddy, unsettling FM synth sequences, creating a mood that - probably unwittingly - harmonizes with the Kankyo Ongaku records of artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Tracklist:
1.01 - K. Yoshimatsu - Violet (3:54)
1.02 - K. Yoshimatsu - Jerusalem (11:19)
1.03 - K. Yoshimatsu - 1841 (5:12)
1.04 - K. Yoshimatsu - Escape (6:18)
1.05 - K. Yoshimatsu - Pastel Nostalgia (9:52)
1.06 - K. Yoshimatsu - Poplar (5:05)