Yokai, by The Rosenshoul

Yokai

by The Rosenshoul

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hello swirl Yamachichi may not have the impact it does without the preceding tracks. It's so eerily menacing. Favorite track: Yamachichi.

MorKroM this sounds like the birth of a demonic warmachine ... menacing and somehow beautiful ... Favorite track: Akujo Nokaze.

L.Tech Duncan Ritchie (The Rosenshoul) takes the listener on a harrowing journey into another dimension where the sights and sounds are ghostly and shadowy.

"Yokai" is wonderfully atmospheric with its foreboding disquietude of deep bass drones and wisps of supernatural intonations. Listen if you dare, and take a leap into the Unknown. Quite excellent dark ambience!

Bruce Moallem While you can't go wrong with anything by The Rosenshoul or Duncan Ritchie for that matter, this one has left the most poignant impression on me. Yokai's unsettling, and clanking metallic landscapes quickly surround and suck you into its never-ending world of nightmares. I don't use the word nightmare lightly either. In fact, this is as close as your going to get to being a character lost in the maze of boiler rooms from the "Nightmare on Elm Street" films.

A Walker An industrial nightmare from beginning to end occasionally dropping in and out to reveal its dark and often fantastical ambiance. The Rosenshoul's constant all encompassing and dense noise is a one of a kind experience. There truly isn't any other musical project quite like this. It's as if you're drowning in sound, caught in a rip tide to which there is no escape Favorite track: Yamachichi.

LJ Such a confident and challenging album. Most certainly The Rosenshoul's most fluid album and like all contain a deep underlying narrative driving the album as a whole. From the howling electronic Akujo Nokaze opening track to a far more laid back affair with Shōkera and its horn instruments floating through an ocean of sound creats a bridge from the opening track to the closing Yamachichi with its deep, dark and rather alarming presence. Second best only to the epic 'Low Winter Sun' album. Favorite track: Yamachichi.

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	1.	Akujo Nokaze 18:08 video
	2.	Shōkera 18:24
	3.	Yamachichi 16:48

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Yōkai (妖怪, "strange apparition") are a class of supernatural entities and spirits in Japanese folklore.

Yōkai are also referred to as ayakashi (あやかし), mononoke (物の怪) or mamono (魔物). Despite often being translated as such, yōkai are not literally demons in the Western sense of the word, but are instead spirits and entities, although this comparison is more often applied to actively "antagonistic" yōkai. Their behaviour can range from malevolent or mischievous to benevolent to humans.

Yōkai often have animal like features but may also appear humanoid in appearance. Some yōkai resemble inanimate objects while others have no discernible shape. Yōkai are typically described as having spiritual or supernatural abilities, with shapeshifting being the most common trait associated with them.

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Additional engineering on Akujo Nokaze by Shiro Takehiko.
Additional Field Recordings on Shōkera by Aitosi Kuwada.
Horns on Shōkera by Shiro Takehiko.
Additional engineering on Yamachichi by Shiro Takehiko.
Additional Field Recordings on Yamachichi by Aitosi Kuwada.

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released June 25, 2008

Composed and performed by Shiro Takehiko & Duncan Ritchie.

Mastered by Duncan Ritchie.

Cover art by Duncan Ritchie.

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Imagine the internal workings of the human mind laid to waste like some post apocalyptic world. Those few tortured threads of humanity left drifting painfully through a vast empty nothingness. A deafening silence becomes an unbearable blinding hum, the pulsing in your temples an industrial nightmare. ... more

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