Sábado 18 Abr 2009, 14:01

Featured EP – ‘Eponymously Titled’ by Tenaka

I can’t remember where I heard of Tenaka. Certainly this wasn’t someone who approached me. Possibly through some blog or other. But his myspace player has probably got the best material on it on the whole of the web at the moment, so hopefully if you’ve not done so already, you’ll either read this or hear him on my April Dandelion show and find out some more. And what that player basically contains are the tracks from the incredible Eponymously Titled EP.

I’m playing ‘Alaskan’ on the show, a fine piece of pulsy, rhythmic electronica that builds around an acoustic guitar riff so sensitively performed you can almost feel the chord changes. Then there are these watery sounds, and a fish jumping. Or something. Then children playing. Then something that sounds like panpipes but probably isn’t

The combinations he weaves in this stuff are fascinating, and it moves up to another level when you listen to the EP as a whole. ‘Ain’t Nobody’ is a faintly whispered, bluesy acoustic number totally unlike anything else I’ve heard from him.

The nearest comparison is probably the Apple Rabbits stuff I’ve been playing recently, at least in the sense that you never know what you’re gonna get next. But I should stop there, and you should listen at:

www.myspace.com/tenakadrifting

And of course at

www.dandelionradio.com until the end of the month. Check the schedule on the website for when the show goes out.

Mark W
Tenaka