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analog010cd 'Summerisle' is a new album by Momus and Anne Laplantine, two recording artists based in Berlin, Germany. Momus is a singer, songwriter, globetrotter and 'human synthesizer' who, as well as releasing his own peppery albums on British indie labels from 4AD to Creation, helped mastermind the 1990s Japanese pop boom known as Shibuya-kei, scoring several top ten hits. Since then he's lived in New York, Tokyo and Berlin and moved towards a sort of baroque electro-acoustic folk style. 'Summerisle' is a collection of computer folk songs featuring the voice of Momus accompanied on guitar and computer by Anne Laplantine (whose own albums appear on French, German and Austrian labels like Gooom, Tomlab, and Angelika Kohlerman). Reference points for Momus are the cult 1972 horror film 'The Wicker Man' (with its brilliant fake folk soundtrack by Paul Giovanni) as well as field recordings of old Japanese people and the ethnomusicology of Alan Lomax. References for Anne Laplantine are artists like Fennesz, Jim O'Rourke and Goodiepal. 'Summerisle' is a beautiful and soothing record positioned in the blurred area where ironic computer folk morphs into the real thing. Anne and Momus have succeeded in giving their synthetic 'Summerisle' some of the magic of Prospero's island in Shakespeare's play 'The Tempest': It's the perfect soundtrack to the lazy, folky summer of 2004.
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