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Japan Air : Antarctica Starts Here
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Strong musicianship and daring song structures combine with smart production and electronic elements to create songs for forward-looking music fans.
Genre: Rock: Instrumental Rock
Release Date: 2002
Antarctica Starts Here Record Label: Japan Air
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Album Notes

Japan Air formed in Winston-Salem out of the vast branches of the North Carolina music scene. Set upon combining the lush imagery of their locale, the desire for musical freewill and a gift for general abstraction, the members of Japan Air began their collective quest for complete fulfillment of a new musical ideal.

That ideal has now been realized. When the obvious question "What do they sound like?" is posed, a wide range of comparisons return. This is the intention of Japan Air. Creating art through an alchemical blend of many types of communication, Japan Air provides an open palette with which the listener may paint their own interpretations of the music. Combining strong musicianship with sparse melodies, driving rhythms and daring song structures, the band turns their views on society, politics, art and mass media into pure musical expression. Japan Air is poised at the threshold of what promises to be a new era in modern music.

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REVIEWS

DAAAAAMMNNNNNN!!!!!
author: musicpimp
These guys have done their homework. They combine a wide cross-scetion of genres without stealing from any particular one. This is one of the best "throw it in your CD player and hit the road" CDs I own. If I was in their area, I'd love to see these guys live and see how they pull it off. Outstanding!
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author:
"In many regards the album is so aurally evocative that it becomes akin to a collection of paintings or photographs, given the way each song conjures up an image as it unwinds" Ed Bumgardner,Winston-Salem Journal Arts Reporter
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author:
"…the (songs) are fascinating melanges of musical influences that stretch from the progressive rock of the 1970s…through the early ambient explorations of Brian Eno into the droning moodiness of The Smiths to the highly textured and harmonically structured music of such modern mixmasters as Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert, Moby and DJ Shadow" Ed Bumgardner,Winston-Salem Journal Arts Reporter
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"...an exhilarating debut"
author: Jeri Rowe, Triad Style Editor
"…lose yourself in its layered drums-synth-guitar sound reminiscent of something from across the Atlantic rather than right here in the South" Jeri Rowe, Triad Style Editor
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