Mouse On The Keys - An Anxious Object (Japanese CD Edition)

Country: Japan
Label: Machu Picchu Industries
Released: 8 July 2009
Genre: Jazz / Contemporary

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Little is known about the mysterious trio that goes by the name of Mouse on the Keys. Their names, Akira Kawasaki (drums, keyboards, piano and of Nine Days Wonder) Atsushi Kiyota (keyboard, piano) and Daisuke Niitome (keybord, piano). The songs of instrumental drum and piano, sometimes jazzy, sometimes almost classical, other times sounding like a soundtrack to a rainy drive through the heart of a city. Whatever they do, it’s a dark and grim journey.

Mouse on the Keys is a jazzy instrumental trio from Tokyo, Japan. They partly used to play in “Nine Days Wonder” (a leading band of the Japanese post-rock scene) some years ago: Akira Kawasaki (drum, keyboards) and Atsushi Kiyota (piano, keyboards), along with Daisuke Niitome (piano, keyboards), who has played drums and composed music for jazz-funk/hiphop bands. The unique sound of the band’s drums, two pianos and two keyboards combines the urgent ’90s American posthardcore with early/contemporary classical, jazz and various electronic music. At their concerts, the band projects a variety of images chosen to match their soundviews of Tokyo, geometric symbols, 3D objects, and abstractions. “The drums are fantastic, the piano smooth and the other instruments masterfully used to make this record bliss… check out this album.

Tracklisting:

1   Completed Nihilism (1:16)
2   Spectres De Mouse (3:21)
3   Seiren (4:26)
4   Dirty Realism (2:23)
5   Forgotten Children (4:18)
6   Unflex (3:24)
7   Double Bind (3:39)
8   Soil (5:27)
9   Ouroboros (5:42)

Spectres De Mouse (Music Video)