Cokiyu may be Japanese, but the title isn’t a misspelling of ‘Haiku’ and this release has nothing to do with a syllable-led poetic ditty. It is, as the press release informs us, ‘a brand new demo song by cokiyu after her critically acclaimed 2nd album, Your Thorn’. From this starting point, Cokiyu roped in three artists of choice - Baths, Geskia! and LASTorder - to collaborate using materials from ‘Haku’, and, so the story goes, ‘in this collaboration process, new ideas were born, new sounds were injected, new dimensions were created, and thus, 3 new songs were conceived.
The trouble is, the new songs all sound like offcuts and mash-ups of existing material – funny, given that that’s pretty much what they are, and as for the 9-minute remix that lobs the whole lot in the mixer, well.... Off-kilter as they may be, the syncopated beats, shifting time signatures and pulsing bass sounds that drag and oscillate very much to the left don’t sound nearly different enough from one another. It sounds self-consciously ‘remixed’, resulting in twenty-odd minutes of music that sounds like a nightmarish club remix of a Björk outtake.
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