Eri Sugai
Country of origin:
Japan
Type of music generally:
New Age
Status:
Most recent release, Kokoro No Niwa (2009)
See also:
Wkikipedia's Eri Sugai's pagee
Comparisons:
Enya, Adiemus
Covers/own material:
Own and traditional material
General comments:
Eri Sugai makes beautiful ethereal music with strong emphasis on the voice. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
Recommended first album:
Mai is the only one we've heard
Recordings include:
- Mai (2000)
- Kaori (2005)
- Kokoro No Niwa (2009)
Mai
Release info:
2000—Pacific Moon Records/Chapter One—CHCB-10020 (PMR-0020)
Availability:
See Pacific Moon Records site for availability
Ecto priority:
Recommended
Group members:
Eri Sugai—vocals, backing vocals, claps
Guest artists:
Anna Sugar—vocals, backing vocals
Keisuke Doi—shakuhachi
Ikuo Kakehashi—percussion
Yuji Nishimura—sho
Wang Ming Jun—dizi
Takashai Ashahi—quena
Rikiya Yamashita
Mizuyo Komiya
Eida Group—strings
Hitoshi Watanabe—bass
Kazumasa Yoshioka, Chieko Suyama—claps
Produced by:
Kazumasa Yoshioka and Eri Sugai
Comments:
Eri Sugai's Mai is a lovely album of New Age music with Sugai's voice at the centre. She is reminiscent of Enya in the layering of vocal parts and the calm atmosphere of the music. "Honen Bushi" has Anna Sugar on lead vocals and is a rhytmic track that still sounds ethereal somehow.
"Konjaku Monogatari" is floating and delicate. On "First Love" Sugai tries to sounds like a niko, a chinese stringed instrument, and does a great job of it.
This is a beautiful and accomplished album. (stjarnell@yahoo.com)
Thanks to Anna Maria Stjärnell for work on this entry
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