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Kokoro's thief is a collaboration between two people who used to play sensible instruments, the guitar and the cello. The guitarist played with a proper band, immense, but then succumbed to the evil ones and zeros of digital recording until much of his guitar playing was no longer recognizable. In fact people would get confused for thinking he was really playing the lawn mower, industrial pile driver or a plate of egg and chips. Unfortunately the cello player succumbed to his current incarnation as Rigil in a similar process…..but of course in a much more artistic style. Here, his cello sounded merely like a sea of cellos played underwater in a glass chamber and his voice, that choral identity, became almost sweet…so he naturally has a cohort of admirers. So what went wrong?
Well the guitarist did try. At least he tried. He went to Japan and recorded kotsuzumi, koto, biwa and shakuhachi under the Japanese maple trees accompanied by a delicate hum of Japanese crickets in the hot sun. He asked leading cellists from the Royal College of Music to grace his studio to play his symphonic structures. He ventured to the darkness of Egyptian cafés to record muzhars, mizmars, kamanjah and oud, accompanied of course by his expert acoustic guitar playing (he is a modest fellow). However somewhere along the line he came across Rigil on myspace (that terrible influence) and all was lost for the second time.
You don’t learn from your mistakes in life do you?
Where once was gold medal chamber cello playing now lies the rush hour of the Tokyo underground in full flight. And where was once was muzhar and mizmar is transformed to sound resembling a small squadron of beetles collecting plastic cups in Hyde Park.
So here we have it dear listener. Two unfortunates combined as kokoro's thief to destroy any sense of musical justice.
And you’d think they’d learn. Well you haven’t heard their latest stuff, have you?
