METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, ERIK HALL, SANDBOX PERCUSSION - Canto Ostinato ICHIKO AOBA that floats between supercharged power-pop

that floats between supercharged power-pop hits and hazy ballads

“The journey we’ve had together has been beautifully turbulent”

YL and Wild Recluse

Da Ya Think I’m Sexy

they include the haunting rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘All The Tired Horses’ that Lisa recorded to soundtrack the closing scene of the final episode of Peaky Blinders

METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE, ERIK HALL, SANDBOX PERCUSSION - Canto Ostinato ICHIKO AOBA that floats between supercharged power-popCD. Sometime in 2020 I listened to Canto Ostinato for the first time, and my enthrallment with the piece had begun. I was transfixed by its particular amalgam of harmony, repetition, and pacing. By the spring of 2023 I had constructed and released my own solo interpretation, and I assumed at that point my working relationship with the composition had run its course. But I underestimated its magnetism. The following year I was back in its grips, having