Eccodust – Eccodust
Eccodust
Eccodust
Album
Electronic
Lurien Zittertkopf
March 30, 2025
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A tin bus chugging through a usually bustling toy town in a tranquil dusk…
The colourful shell of a toy robot poking out of a rich green undergrowth…
The reassuring chirping of birds and insects in a biological world nestled within our own.
It’s been 24 years since its release as of this month and there still is no adequate description of its beauty. Botanical Sunset a 15-track release from Japanese artist Miroque is as dazzling now as it was in 2001, beckoning the listener into a uniquely ecological world of play and adventure.
Handpans light the way for softly-coloured entities to take flight on The Morning Calm. Swooping resonant bells and drum drip spontaneously on Hifi Wave Bell. Fat plodding notes squelch past blurry bells like a baby ambling through a meadow on The Lurar Surface Town. Each track is as if a petri dish of organic biomass were left in a nursery play area.
Referred to before as engaging in ‘toy sentimentalism’, Miroque fully envelops the listener in movements both lovingly basic and buoyantly improvisational.
Desperate for an insight into this world two and a half decades-old but still as fresh and inviting as ever, we asked Miroque a few questions about the brilliant Botanical Sunset.
I compose music by combining improvisation. It's like weaving musical threads together. I was learning jazz piano [when composing Botanical Sunset], so it was like jazz improvisation. I was composing music as I drifted through the waves of ambient music. I imagined small animals, birds and insects floating in the air like waves.
It's like my home. Now I work as a mother raising children and as a therapist. The musician side is like a home I can always return to.
It's an honour. Hosono and Yoshimura are musicians I look up to. I participated in a tribute album for Hosono, which was a wonderful experience.
For me, Botanical Sunset is the origin. No one expects anything from me, and it is filled with the joy of music and gratitude. I'm grateful that this music has not been consumed and has been loved for so long.
I listen to a variety of music. I have a child in elementary school, so I listen to music that changes monthly that is popular among Japanese elementary school students (laughs). I also like Minecraft music.
In 2025, a Japanese musician will remix a Miroque song, so I'm looking forward to its official release.
There is no particular advance information, I hope you enjoy listening to Miroque's music. If you have any thoughts, please feel free to let me know.
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