Moskitoo is a Japanese sound artist and singer from Tokyo who uses musical and non-musical soundscapes to create parallel dimensional soundscapes for her sweetly spectral vocals to benignly haunt.
Refreshingly by today's music factory standards she also doesn't release much music, this being her third LP since 2007, the other two having been birthed by 12K - one of my favourite ambient labels, just in case you needed any further artistic quality assurances. For some reason, perhaps because it's so easy these days, she's decided to self release this one.
I guess it's unsurprising considering the eleven year gap since Mitosis, but there's also been an evolutionary sonic leap. The familiar glitchy frameworks that used to anchor her atmospheric creations have dissolved, freeing the previously restrained low gravity sounds to float to their preferred heights, often stretching beyond the point of no return until they dissolve into the universal consciousness.
The LP really is a fluid affair with machine frequencies seeping into subterranean caverns to basque in the reverb and swirl to mesmerizing ambient effect in the darkness above the mountain covered water reserves that lend a submerged aquatic sensation to many of the tracks. If that wasn't enough distant instrumental sounds from full moon lit rituals on the earth's surface somehow echo into the vast chambers to accompany Moskitoo, who stands on a rocky pedestal lit by a phantasmal glow, singing strange but gentle songs.
The LP is a thing of ambient pop beauty, have a listen:
Playlist Companions
You can also find Moskitoo floating around the Slow Ambient and Ambient Pop Playlists.
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