血と雫 je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas, by Chi To Shizuku

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je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas
je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas (I pray that the drop does not fall) is the first international release by Japanese trio
Chi To Shizuku. While they have released five albums and a 7” in Japan, their spectral, haunted rock songs
haven’t yet reached a much wider audience overseas. With this album, then, a live recording taken at Koenji
HIGH, Suginami, Tokyo on 23rd November 2021, the unique, quartz-like character of Chi To Shizuku’s music is
writ large, the bleak bliss of their songs carved onto twelve-inch vinyl.
Perhaps the best-known member of Chi To Shizuku, at least for audiences with an ear turned to Japanese
psychedelia, is drummer Takahashi Ikuro, known for his membership of almost every group worth a damn from
that scene – Fushitsusha, Nagisa Ni Te, Ché-SHIZU, Kousokuya, High Rise, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, LSD
March, the list goes on. But the core of Chi To Shizuku’s music is the collaboration between vocalist, bassist and
lyricist Morikawa Seiichirou, and guitarist and arranger Yamagiwa Hideki. Morikawa is a member of longrunning punk/goth group Z.O.A., and has also played with YBO2
, Zzzoo, and as collaborator with Takeshi and
Atsuo of Boris in A/N; he’s also recently been performing with Mitsuru Tabata. Yamagiwa’s history takes in
stints with Katsurei and Cock C’ Nell, and he also recently guested with la scene 裸身.
All this contextual information does relatively little, though, to prepare you for the unique vibration of Chi To
Shizuku’s lustrous songs. They shimmer in the same half-light, perhaps, as Shizuka and the quieter moments of
LSD March, sharing a similar poise and classicism, and there’s a tenderness and wracked poetry to Morikawa’s
voice that reminds of the emotional intensities both of traditional Japanese folk, and of British folk music: on
“Musuu No Nemuri No Naka De Kumo Wo Tukamu”, the combination of his singing, backed with gorgeously
plangent guitar, reminds of no-one so much as it does The Pentangle or Spriguns Of Tolgus. Chi To Shizuku’s
love for the ballad as form gifts their music an archaic, sometimes arcane resonance, and from what you can
hear on this album, it’s clear they’re in love with graceful melancholy.
But this is not a folk album, by any means; it just shivers with the same eternal spirit. There are also hints of
prog rock, and you can catch some passages of scratchy, distended free rock, on the extended spirit invocation
of “Nanhito Hanhito”. je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas is an extraordinary album, a melancholy surprise, that
reminds dedicated listeners of the seemingly bottomless well of great music to be found via the Japanese
underground in its many forms. Perhaps Michel Henritzi says it best, though, in his liner notes, when he writes,
“Chi To Shizuku’s music reminds us that our life is a dream that lasts only a season, and that oblivion will
follow.”

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released November 10, 2023

血と雫 je prie pour que la goutte ne tombe pas

MORIKAWA SEIICHIROU
vocal&bass, lyrics

YAMAGIWA HIDEKI
electric & classical guitar, arrangement

TAKAHASHI IKURO
drums & percussion

Live
Recording at Koenji HIGH
Suginami, Tokyo
on 23rd November 2021

Recorded : The K (101A)

Mix & Mastering : /M 1 - Taku Unami

Photography : Noriko Akiyama

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