This is a bit different – “Glimmer” is an album split between two artists but with a common theme and theme appears to be to send you to sleep. That’s not as bad as it sounds as the aim wasn’t to be boring but to relax you and pacify your soul.
As an album, it is reasonably successful at doing what it sets out to do with Takumi Uesaka’s high clear voice and synchronicity obsessed rhythmic guitar capable of floating atop a lily pond in the moonlight. In fact, he makes the likes of Nagisa Ni Te sound like a hardcore metal band in comparison. It has to be said however that there is undoubtedly a hypnotic, calming effect to his three songs.
Peter Broderick is more European in his approach and his music appears to fall straight into the modern day ambient genre with plenty of space left around those piano keys so that your mind has room to breathe. However, everything is not as it initially seems with “Low Light”, in particular, showing a stronger sense of direction and being far closer to a classical sonata then it is to background mood music.
Whilst both Takumi Uesaka and Peter Broderick have their individual appeal, it is Peter Broderick’s music that stays with you long after the CD has been put back in its sleeve.