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March 2, 2019

The Guardians of Rare Pieces: Compilation Tracks: Review by Easterndaze

The Timisoara-based duo Makunouchi Bento make soundtracks for their imaginary movies. At times opulent, adventurous sonic textures are woven into a tapestry of imagination, transporting the listener into non-descript moments in time, a gentle, fragile odyssey that is peculiarly haunting, playful and dreamlike. It’s not a placid lullaby throughout though, there are more uptempo songs in there, too. They have assorted their unreleased tracks, collaborations, and whatnot into two “compilations” so far, a personal...

March 1, 2019

Bodrog OST: Review by Albert E. Trapezoid

Makunouchi Bento is back with another interesting collaboration. This time it’s to soundtrack a film called “Bodrog” from first-time feature film director Mihai Salajan. I can’t say much about the film because I’ve only seen the trailer (watch it below) but it is described as “an almost-horror mockumentary.” It certainly looks intriguing, and I suspect there are many more interesting elements than this taste lets on… What I can talk about is the music. To...

February 17, 2019

Makunouchi Bento / Somnoroase Păsărele: Review by Tim Webb at Discchord

Reader Felix Petrescu, of Makunouchi Bento, is featured on this Industrial Ambient Tandem Tapes release. He uses a variety of apps in his composition, but I was especially interested in how he uses Thumbjam's pitch-to-MIDI to "sing" the haunted trumpet sounds. Makunouchi Bento also collaborated with Ewan Hofmann on this epic hour long track, using a similar workflow....

February 17, 2019

Makunouchi Bento / Somnoroase Păsărele: Review by Adrian Dziewanski at The Alcohol Seed

From Tandem Tapes: Makunouchi Bento / Somnoroase Păsărele This week’s submission comes all the way from the DIY cassette label Tandem Tapes, based in Jakarta, Indonesia. As the name suggests, Tandem’s focus is split releases, and their most current, that also happened to make its way to my doorstep, is from a pair of Romanian projects: Makunouchi Bento and Somnoroase Păsărele. It’s housed in a simple yet elegant b&w j-card with strange cover artwork that...

February 17, 2019

Makunouchi Bento / Somnoroase Păsărele: Review by PostRockCafe at A Closer Listen

Makunouchi Bento’s sweeping synths evoke aquatic landscapes smeared with luminous acrylic. Sonar pings lead a lone submarine downward, deeper, probing the ocean floor for crash survivors amid recent debris. Cold synths pierce the murky haze like headlights. Electronic squiggles approximate a passing pod of dolphins as the submarine resounds from distant whale calls. Delayed percussion skips in place, trailing seaweed glowing with iridescence. Eventually, the submarine surfaces to Morse-code scrapings encroaching between post-Pompeii blasts...

February 16, 2019

Paquet Congo: Review by Lucian Mircu at Marele Ecran

Paquet (din) Congo. Sau Mabento's Christmas Cum era aia cu "decat sa votam cu Bombo, mai bine plecam in Congo"? Ramaneti la locurile voastre, tovarasi, ca vine Congo la noi. Mai bine zis Paquet Congo, noul EP Makunouchi Bento. De fapt e Mabento & friends, pentru ca include si doua colaborari: cu Silent Strike si Selfmademusic. Albumul are si o incantatie voodoo (in dialectul louisiana creole & dialectul Waka_X), ca sa alunge spiritele rele. Si sa iasa...